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Heatercathodeshort · 31st Jan 2007, 10:02 pm

Hello again Nigel,
So you have an actual gap..Thats not good and may well be the cause of your trouble. The gapping papers are very thin and usually consist of small circles of paper about the thickness of a cigarette paper.
I used to make line output transformers as a young lad of 13. I still have my notes that are now over 40 years old but the Pye V4 details are not to hand. The problem is that if you found a scrap transformer, the original would not stand the core swap. Regards John.

31st Jan 2007, 10:02 pm	#4
Heatercathodeshort Dekatron Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Warnham, West Sussex. 10 miles south of DORKING. Posts: 9,147	Re: Cracked LOPT Core Hello again Nigel, So you have an actual gap..Thats not good and may well be the cause of your trouble. The gapping papers are very thin and usually consist of small circles of paper about the thickness of a cigarette paper. I used to make line output transformers as a young lad of 13. I still have my notes that are now over 40 years old but the Pye V4 details are not to hand. The problem is that if you found a scrap transformer, the original would not stand the core swap. Regards John.