"DaveC" wrote in message
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Nice old toaster has one dead heat coil.

If the owner want to keep it, what are the options? Are breaks easily
spliced
with hi-temp crimp of some kind? Or is it best to rewind the coil with new
wire?

Thanks,
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DaveC

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from my tips file
http://www.divdev.fsnet.co.uk/tips2.htm

Hint for heater element repairs
The thin stainless steel strip found spot welded to multicell ni-cads
make good crimps for joining breaks in heater resistance wire.
Form a small length of this strip around a needle or something
similar to make a tight
spiral with enough clearance to go over doubled-up heater wire.Abraid
or file the cut ends
of the broken wire.Crimp into place with a double lever action crimper.
If there is an area of brittlised element around the break then cut out
and splice in a replacement section with
two such crimps.Such a repair to a hot-air paint stripper (indispensible
tool
in any electronics repair
toolkit ) has survived at least 50 hours

Said hot-air gun must have about 3 such joins now and 200 hours on the
clock.