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Originally Posted by Reaux  For example: if one were to wire a plug with the hanger or swivel and instead of finishing it off as we normally do was to reinsert the wire (180 degree bend) back into the rear of the plug after attaching the swivel. Then, perhaps you could take a nail and insert it in the loop of wire and start twisting. Of course then there would be the problem of the return wire rotating internally. That could be solved by running the return wire up to the belly swivel giving the return wire something to fetch up aganist. Or they could take the egg weight thingy and cut a notch in it then thread the wire through it and then return it through the thingy and then make a small 90 degree bend in the return wire. This would require carefull measurement. At any rate the thingy is inserted and glued into the rear of the plug; then as above a nail is inserted into the tailing loop (with swivel) and twisted. The wire would turn internally until it found the notch in the thingy at which point it would start twisting making an internal tail wrap.
Just guesses on my part. I'll do my best to figure it out even if I have to take one apart . . . after it has caught a lot of fish.
Bill |
To answer myself. The above didn't work. I tried it this morning the wire twists all right but it makes lazy wraps around both wires - like a coat hanger.
What did work was putting one end of a length of wire in a vise then making a loop at the free end with round nose pliers. Then with the tag end at 90 degrees from standing wire rotating the standing wire by twisting the loop with the round nose pliers whilst holding and guideing the tag end wire. Albeit it was soft copper wire, I'll try rigging wire tonight. The wraps look just like the ones Hal posted, above. I don't know how they get the wraps inside of the cone thingy, yet,
Further, I don't know what torsional strain wrapping like this does to the main through wire. I supose since they wrap both ends one could wrap the nose end clockwise and the tail wrap counter clockwise this might 'undo' the torsional strain.
Bill
10-16-2007, 02:24 PM
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