The result looks promising, so now have to apply severall layers of varnish and see if it will hold its shape.
What diameter is this wire? How long did it take you to wind the 3 layers of this wire? The diameter of the hose seems a little too small to create an overlap of the 2 hemi-toroids created after the circumferential cuts...but I might be wrong just by looking at the photo. Varnish the wires first on the surface and cut them later after the varnish dries. Do not let the varnish soak through the wires so much that it glues them to the hose *, unless you were proactive and wrapped the hose with a saran wrap first (or coated the hose with wax). Do not use a saw with teeth to cut the wires because teeth will fray them. Use a small and thin abrasive cut-off disk (e.g. for the Dremel tool) or a very very sharp knife. After separating the Litz Cloth (formed by the varnished wires) from the hose, varnish it again from inside and don't forget about the cut edge, (the one that will be overlapped and not be soldered), so it is varnished in such manner that the exposed ends of the cut wires are not shorted electrically. We do not want to create any conductor loops that will oppose the AC magnetic field. Note, that some varnishes are more rigid than the others. * I used a flexible styrofoam rod which completely dissolves in acetone instead of the rubber hose and an epoxide based varnish which is immune to acetone, so I did not have any stiction problems.
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