Winding A Kanthal Heating Element For A DIY Heat Treatment Oven
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- I've had the parts to build a real heat treatment oven for about 3 years, and I'm finally getting around to making it. I'm pretty sure that this will be a project mainly for the website, but I may make some short detail videos like this as well during the build.
This element was made with 18 gauge Kanthal wire wrapped around a 5/16" rod. The length of the wire was roughly 25 feet before winding. The resistance of this element is ~10 ohms giving it about 1500 watts from a regular 120vac outlet.
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I've had the parts to build a real heat treatment oven for about 3 years, and I'm finally getting around to making it. I'm pretty sure that this will be a project mainly for the website, but I may make some short detail videos like this as well during the build.
This element was made with 18 gauge Kanthal wire wrapped around a 5/16" rod. The length of the wire was roughly 25 feet before winding. The resistance of this element is ~10 ohms giving it about 1500 watts from a regular 120vac outlet.
You can help support the work I do in making these videos:
Plans for sale: www.ibuildit.ca/plans.html
Support this channel on Patreon: www.patreon.com/user?u=865843&ty=h
Did you know I have other TH-cam channels?
My main channel:
th-cam.com/users/jpheisz
More videos on my second woodworking channel:
th-cam.com/users/IBuildIt
My home reno channel:
th-cam.com/users/IBuildItHome
Website: www.ibuildit.ca/
Facebook: facebook.com/I-Build-It-258048014240900/
Instagram: instagram.com/i_build_it.ca/
That's funny because I just watched one of your old videos and was wondering if you would circle back to this and then voilà!
Now that you're done with the rod please allow us to beat you with it for that infernal flicking of the wire pulling free of the vise jaw. That was like fingers on a chalkboard man. I love your videos, there's always something in each one to get a real laugh out of.
Still better than network TV.
The sound of the end hitting the vise is almost hypnotic.
You know you're addicted to a channel when you'll happily watch three minutes of wire wrapping.
"I gave it a 7. It has a nice beat, and you can dance to it..."
The right people will get that.
I'm not the right person :(
You mean people of a certain age, hint: DC's ABS
Yes - "people of a certain age" = the right people.
That was the longest 3 minutes and 5 seconds of my life, I'm gonna go watch my varnish dry now.
Joseph Blazei
And yet you still found time to complain. People are strange.
David Lowe I wasn't complaining, I was making a joke. Besides, between the video and the varnish, I had plenty of time.
Joseph Blazei
ah - apologies!
No worries :) The best part about the internet is that you can say exactly what you want to say, but it never comes across that way lol
I've never seen it done better. Easily the best on youtube!
Sound operated turns counter. Genius!
pileofstuff no doubt. Often times the simplest and most obvious solutions yield the best results
You changed camera angles about 5 times, but let the wire keep thwapping. A true artist.
nice tapping wrap counter lol. ingenius!
When Kubrick makes a DIY channel.
Turn the video black and white, play it on an old CRT tv and you've got an art installation.
Ugh. That was excruciating, but I made it all the way through. I want to see the oven. You owe it to us now for watching that.
This is what it was like as a child spending time at grandma's
I like the nail in the chuck idea. Much faster than drilling a hole in the rod. I need to keep this in mind for when I get around to building a vacuum former.
thats the allstar part of this idea lol
This worked so well! My wire was extremely stiff so I had to pull hard which caused the rod to bend and put a lot of stress on the chuck though.
As someone who winds wire for making chainmaille all the time into coils like this, this was painful John! Next time(if there is a next time) drill a hole into a piece of wood the size of your mandrel(the rod in the drill) and then a smaller hole about an inch below that. feed the mandrel through the big hole and the wire through the small hole. Chuck the wire up with the mandrel and hold the wood in your hand. Pull the trigger and go to town. I know its too late for this now, but there you go if you ever do it again.
I'd still do it the same way. I mean, even though it was "painful" for you, it was fine for me and it took more time to set up the camera to record it than it took to wind it.
best 3 minutes of my life!
No coughing,burping or farting- true tool control!😆😆😆😆
Interesting cinematography John
silly question; why do you have to wind the thread?
can't we simply wrap it as it is around the body to be heated?
I can't find the answer anywhere...
I think John is a bit sadistic. His next big project is a water boarding machine. But seriously I am interested in this build. I may have to start visiting his website more often to get any good tips he might have in the build.
Next.... we watch John's toenail's grow......
I attempted to make my own heating element once. I wrapped the wire around a threaded rod for consistency, but it looks like you got just as consistent with a smooth rod.
Steady pulling force (but not so much to make the wire climb onto a previous turn) on the wire and letting it feed in at a bit of an angle (not 90') from the starting side makes the forming turn get pushed into the face of the previous one, making a consistent, tight, coil.
Threaded rod could be useful if you wanted a sparse coil using wire diameter less than the thread pitch - that should give you consistent spacing between coils if you can get the wire consistently into the bottom of the thread. Of course, coil might need to be unscrewed rather than pulled off.
Strangely pleasing.
It's got a good beat, but you can't dance to it. I give it a 6.
How can I do that without use my hand ?
How did the 18awg work out for you? It looks like 14 awg is about the right size for a 18” diameter kiln I’m working on, but gauges larger than 16 jumps up in price, for kanthal wire anyway. I’d love to get away with 6 elements built with 16 awg.
Hey, the wire must be electrically insulated but it doesnt look like it... so is it insulated? otherwise resistance wouldn't be so high...
Did you purposely keep the end long to count the number of wraps? Also, hopefully it didn't beat up your wooden vise too much!
Left it long because it needs to connect. I didn't need to know how many turns there were.
I Build It Scrap Bin I didn't think you would need to, but someone else mentioned and it got me thinking. Thanks :)
I Build It Scrap Bin I would have moved it within seconds of that wrapping noise well we learned 2 things patience and how to make a coil bravo mr john
damn, look at that drill flex.
Is this a wind up?
This is how my son an I made rings for chainmail, but in a simple frame and a hole drilled next to the rod as a wire guide. Could make about a meter a minute.
great shots!
If you ever need to straighten a piece of that kanthal out again. Put the end in the chuck of your drill and pull the other end taught with players and run the drill slow at first then faster.
I loved the shit out of that video...weirdly satisfying. There's also the fact that I have to watch every single John Heisz video and read all the comments so when John goes on a rant on the scrap bin channel I know what he's talking about and I can laugh my ass off! I'm sure the douche bags commenting on how bad this video is video will be included.
Is this a wind up?
Very good.
As a kid me and my brother used a similiar method when we made chainmail links for a larping costume. Sadly we never finnished the chainmail.
Super cool.
This is the most entertaining and enjoyable video of yours so far...hehe. If I wanted to hear someone say "shit" as often as you do, I'd talk to my wife more often...hehe.
i like the wooden bench vise. Did you make it?
Having trtouble finding the Kanthal wire, everything else is cool, please help!"
Reading the comments here and holy crap but some people are are more tightly wound than the coil.
So how does it vape?
How long of wire did you need to make your coil?
Already laughing at the comments to come. "You could just go buy one of those." Or "Running your still on low speed will ruin the motor." Maybe "You should be wearing gloves to hold that wire." Special prize will be awarded for the most sarcastic comment!
John, you should do a face reveal!
It should have been grounded while you were turning it
With a coil that large it's going to be a real pain to get all of the hot spots out and make sure the coil heats evenly. And you'll want to watch for hot spots because they can melt the wire and cause shorts. Try strumming the coil with ceramic tweezers, or something else, sounds crazy, but it helps even out the way the coil heats.
Same size coil as the Evenheat KH414.
Brilliant
last time I had to do something like this I happened to have "close enough to" proper size all thread, and that worked out pretty well, not that this did not, just commenting
Where can I get these kanthal wires?
Ya know them 10 hour looped sleeping videos..............
watched the whole thing, but at 2x speed. Still seemed slow. No one to blame but myself. ;-)
I really enjoy this projekt, so im looking forward to see hos you will do the rest of the heating element. Are you just gonna solder leads to it, og are there other fancy tricks??
Has to be mechanical connection, like screw terminals. Solder would melt.
I Build It Scrap Bin aah, i should have thought of that 😎
More cow bell!
सर हमें भी करना है आपकी कंपनी कहां पर है मैं कारीगर हु सर
Tried to pause video tomcut the excess wire. Did not work. :)
Still better than anything ever made by Justin Bieber...
Oh no you guys, he's gone crazy
it seems like fingers burning
The last time I had this much fun I was watching an egg boil, must remember to keep away from sharp objects for a while.
"We will
We will
Rock you"
I bet you had it in second gear just to piss people off. ;)
good work. when i saw the thumbnail i thought you had a huge vape. haha.
what are you going to be heat treating?
That thing is going to gurgle and pop and dry hit. Not to mention the size of the wick.
jbkibs
At first I thought he was posting a video on a vaping build.
Tweezers in hand, ready to cut the loose end.
"Nah, I'll let it on, gonna annoy the crap out of some viewers" :-)
were you using the long tail of the wire hitting the vice as a method to count your wraps?
guess not.... lol
A DIY heat treatment oven sounds very cool. But "a project mainly for the website"? You mean I'd have to actually read text rather than watch a video? How 18th century!
Official.... I hate the thwap thwap
It gives an easy way to count the wraps on the coil.
Very Therapeutic to watch.
You have got to be kidding.
Why , John , why ???
I'm not sure which video is dumber... this one of the one of Mathias cutting his finger.
Easy, you are :)
LOL - John you know I love your videos. :)
You people should blame yourselves. This man wouldn't have been driven to the point of making this video if you would have shown him some goddamn common courtesy. You people make me sick.
Stick some Cotten into you got a bad ass vape! Lol
I love most of your videos but this one could have been left out.
Glad you enjoyed it :)