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Originally Posted by vts1134
What is the wire on the coil coated with? I found a break close to the end of the coil but I can't get continuity on the wire. I've tried melting it with fire and holding probe leads onto what looks like bare wire to me and it won't conduct. Is there something else I need to get off of the wire that can't be burned off? If I cant figure out how to expose the conductor in that wire and that point is the only break then I think I'll be able to repair the trap and be in business.
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It's coated with either laquer or enamel, probably laquer.
Do this. And bookmark this for future referance. No jive, it really works
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Lay an aspirin tablet (real aspirin, not Alleve, Tylenol ibupropin etc.) on the bench. Put the end of the wire on the tablet, and apply the tip of your soldering iron so the aspirin liquefies and engulfs the wire tip. It strips the wire clean as a whistle in a jiffy. It releases some nasty fumes though, so be sure there's some ventilation. The liquid acetylsalicylic acid is what does the stripping.
After some 60 years doing electrical stuff, i just learned this trick recently.