Meat Plow wrote in message
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On Mon, 3 Aug 2009 12:16:55 +0100, "N_Cook" wrote:

Firstly a more suitable and appropriately active usenet forum for guitar
pickup rewinding etc ?
I worked out how to remove the electrics through the fretwork, all sorts
of
minor problems in the wiring etc but main one is no signal from one of
the
pickups.
One pickup measures 7.7K and the other megohms.
I assume no capacitor inside that one . Maybe just a break in the rather
corroded and aged-looking screened wire but the other end is inside the
pickup brasswork. Before plumbing type desoldering the casing closure of
the
pickup, I could do with some advice, as a novice at this .


Pickups should measure anywhere from 5 - 15k dc resistance depending
on being a single coil, humbucker, high output.

Next question?

The paper and coil was lightly laquered in, not as obvious as magneto coil.
With child's toy wooden clothes peg, one wedge of, and small pectrum managed
to ease out the coil with only minor collateral damage to the wire and no
damage to the bakelite (will have to chemically clean oput the glued in
paper). Taken dimensions and weight to 10mg so should be able to rewind
another. Should be able to heat up and unwind on counter for the turns also.
Looks like bad assembly, in that in the process of wrapping the tissue paper
strip around the coil , the lay had been seriously disturbed and then
probably vibration/thermal changes/chaffing enough to make a break
somewhere. From the owner the odd woodscrew is for a now missing
finger/scratch plate.