Coil Wire - Awg43 & 45

[technocracy]

As the title says I am after somewhere that sells coil wire sizes AWG43 and 45. I've not look in Global House but I'd be very surprised if they did stock it . . . but you never know. I know Homepro or Mart definately won't so the next is small engineering coil or electric motor companies.

I don't need huge reels about 200 or 300grams of each would be fine.

If the same places have AWG42 also I'd take some of that as well!

So does any ideas anyone? Preferrably somewhere around the Udon area.

I was unsure if post this in here or the SME Business section . . . .

[Crossy]

Chinatown in Bangkok you'll certainly be able to get enamelled copper wire, but that isn't really going to help in Udon

Plenty of places rebuild small motors so I agree, they would be a good place to start. Remember that they'll likely have wire sized in SWG or mm diameter rather than AWG so you'll need to convert.

awg_swg_conversion.pdf

[technocracy]

Yep good point on the SWG thing - looking at that SWG45 is only as small as AWG41.

So is there not such a thing as SWG46, 47, 48 etc?

[Crossy]

Yep good point on the SWG thing - looking at that SWG45 is only as small as AWG41.

So is there not such a thing as SWG46, 47, 48 etc?

Like AWG, SWG just keeps getting thinner as the number gets bigger, just have to find a conversion table that goes higher

[technocracy]

fair enough . . . I am just trying to find out the SWG equivalents of AWG43 and 45.

Edit: So the closest equivalent gauges are:

SWG46 - AWG42

SWG47 - AWG44

SWG48 - AWG45.5

No really equivalent of AWG43

I feel an order to a company in the US coming on . . .

Edited April 16, 2009 by technocracy

[Tywais]

fair enough . . . I am just trying to find out the SWG equivalents of AWG43 and 45.

Conversion Calculators

[technocracy]

fair enough . . . I am just trying to find out the SWG equivalents of AWG43 and 45.

Conversion Calculators

Cheers for that - I already found another but that calculator is better than the other I've got bookmarked!

[Crossy]

fair enough . . . I am just trying to find out the SWG equivalents of AWG43 and 45.

Conversion Calculators

Cheers for that - I already found another but that calculator is better than the other I've got bookmarked!

Any reason you need exactly AWG 43, SWG 47 is pretty close

[Tywais]

Such a small wire size seems to be difficult to locate. I've tried all my main on-line sites that I normally use, Digikey, Farnell, RS International, Mouser, Jameco and come up with a blank on that size. I have 50 micron (.05) gold plated tungsten wire at the lab I use for beam analysis but believe it came from another research center in the US.

Possibly find an old CRT television set and remove the horizontal or vertical yoke, the wire sizes are small but not sure that small. Used those to build tesla coils. Or possibly relay coils depending on how much you need.

[technocracy]

fair enough . . . I am just trying to find out the SWG equivalents of AWG43 and 45.

Conversion Calculators

Cheers for that - I already found another but that calculator is better than the other I've got bookmarked!

Any reason you need exactly AWG 43, SWG 47 is pretty close

Winding guitar pickups . . . several thousand feet goes into one coil.

Different thickness of wire gives different sound and guitar pickups are based in the AWG standards.

AWG42 is used for Les Paul Style Humbuckers

AWG43 is used for Telecaster neck pickups

AWG44 & AWG45 is used for numerous varieties of modern pickups

So there you go . . . there is a coil manufacturing company just up the road from where I live however when I spoke to them a few weeks back they didn't want to know but I am going to try again and be a stubborn english only speaking falang and see if that gets a better result!

The smallest the motorshop in town had was AWG38/SWG42 . . which ain't any use.

Edited April 16, 2009 by technocracy

[technocracy]

Such a small wire size seems to be difficult to locate. I've tried all my main on-line sites that I normally use, Digikey, Farnell, RS International, Mouser, Jameco and come up with a blank on that size. I have 50 micron (.05) gold plated tungsten wire at the lab I use for beam analysis but believe it came from another research center in the US.

Possibly find an old CRT television set and remove the horizontal or vertical yoke, the wire sizes are small but not sure that small. Used those to build tesla coils. Or possibly relay coils depending on how much you need.

It's around but the main problem is buying it in smaller quantities not huge reels . .. . but there is several place overseas I know I can buy it that ain't a problem but really like to source it locally not only for cost but also not having to wait for shipping time. Even DHL takes a week from the US . .