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rogerdw Guru Joined: 22/10/2019 Location: Australia Posts: 952	Posted: 02:36am 18 Jan 2025         analog8484 said   That would be great, especially on how to build/acquire the recommended jigs/tools (e.g. winding shuttle/hoops, toroid holder/stand, etc.).  Many of the past builds have custom components (e.g. toroid cores, enclosures, busbars, etc.) that looked wonderful.  However, they also looked intimidating to the mechanical challenged (i.e. little to no wood/metal bending/cutting/welding skills/tools) like me I appreciate the comment, thanks. A lot of the methods I used are simply copied from things I have seen here on thebackshed  ...  and others are a compilation of ideas from my research into winding toroids. I wasted hundreds of hours "researching" to find out how to do stuff  ...  but to be perfectly honest, some things I sweated over doing for weeks, months even  ...  I finally went out in the shed and had a go  ...  and it all fell into place super easily. I was talking myself out of starting because I had never done it before and couldn't find "instructions" on how to do it. The other revelation was that often after those hundreds of hours procrastinating and then finally deciding on "my brilliant plan"  ...  I'd go out and start implementing it  ...  and find out immediately it was unworkable. Mmmm  ... Then I'd immediately try something else  ...  and pretty much every time, come up with an even better and easier way of completing my task. What I learned was that if I just got off my butt and off the flippin computer and went and had a go  ...  things can happen really quickly. I still need that reminder every day.   I appreciate your comments about not having the mechanical skills and while I don't have that much experience  ...  it's amazing what you can do just having a go. My dad was a farmer and did many things by necessity and it must have rubbed off on me. Not that he really taught me the finer arts of skills  ...  but I probably picked up things by just being around when he did them. He did things like engineering and bolting two tractors together to gain extra power coz a new tractor was out of the budget  ...  he built and welded up a huge field bin for grain storage  ...  put together an off-grid power sytem for the farm before the grid was even available (back in the 50's). That was a freelite wind generator, a stationary engine with a 32v Dunlite generator plus old auto batteries etc etc. I think my most important takeaway from all of that was there's really no limit to what we can build or do if we really want it. Find out how and have a go  ...  and keep persevering. I reckon if I can put together some decent video of the winding process eg  ...  it will show that it's really not difficult at all. Time consuming maybe, but not complicated  ...  and lets not forget that the guys here have wound hundreds of toroids long before I worked out my methods.