{"id":6629,"date":"2010-09-23T03:00:51","date_gmt":"2010-09-23T08:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=6629"},"modified":"2010-09-23T03:00:51","modified_gmt":"2010-09-23T08:00:51","slug":"overheard-in-the-lab-of-the-day-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/6629","title":{"rendered":"Lab Tale of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

We recently changed the details of our MOT coils (OK, we had to. We messed around and there were \u2026 consequences. There was a shotgun involved, as it were) The old MOT coils<\/a> were wound on a form, which held the wires in place. The new geometry is tighter and required something smaller, so we decided to go with no holder \u2014 the wires would be free-standing, but since they had adhesive on them, they would stick together. And we could coat them with epoxy, just to make sure.<\/p>\n

But this still required something on which to wind the coils, and in machining terminology, such a device is called a mandrel. Which I immediately named “Barbara.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently changed the details of our MOT coils (OK, we had to. We messed around and there were \u2026 consequences. There was a shotgun involved, as it were) The old MOT coils were wound on a form, which held … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lab-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6629\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}