Dear ION.
If you have a lathe the whole structure could be machined from two reasonably thick pieces of plastic. You could form the water channel in two halves, gasket and bolt together with Nylon screws. On the outside you could also machine a groove to carry the pancake winding.
Just a thought, sitting or lying down is the only relief I'm getting ATM, so I'm musing.
Cheers Grum.
Hi Grum Yes I had considered that method but opted for a simpler closed tube construction, one end (mouth) of the tubing expanded slightly and glued into the tail end. Liquid is then injected with a hypo aided by a small air bleeder . Formers for the pancake coils are not really needed if one winds them and varnishes them using a special technique. e.g A pair of discarded CD's held between two larger and more rigid disks on an axle are spring loaded or otherwise precisely spaced and chucked into the very slow turning lathe or drill press. Varnish is added during the winding process and also helps to lubricate. The thin CD's can remain as part of the assembly and also aid to protect the coils, or they can be peeled away if a suitable mold release agent had been applied. If I were an expert machinist such as you are and if I had a good lathe like yours, I would reconsider turning the parts, but mine is a junker with too much "play" and too small a capacity for large work. I will need to replace the sleeve bearings in it someday as it has excessive "chatter". An alternative would be to use a flying cutter in the drill press with a specially shaped tool to cut the liquid channel, but those can be dangerous to use. Hope you are feeling better, I empathize with your back pain, though mine is not nearly as severe. Watch Rick Simpsons "Run From The Cure" second edition for one possible method of back pain relief. Kind Regards ION
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