I was wondering if anyone knew how to make magnet wire?

Answer 1

I wouldn't try and make magnet wire, since it is readily available on-line, or even in your local radio shack. But if you were wondering what it was, it is a solid strand or wire usually primarily copper, that is insulated by a thin enamel. This thin protective layer keeps the copper strands from shorting to previous wrappings while minimizing the effective volume. In wrapping an electromagnet, if you used regular wire, you would waste a lot of volume with the thick insulation used on typical wire as well as reduce the efficiency of the field your were trying to create. *note: remember to scrape the insulation off the section of wire you wish to be conductive, it is usually colored, and the pure copper color will appear once the enamel is removed.

Answer 2

Magnet wire is just a light guager wire that is wound to form a coil, thereby producing an electro-magnet when a current is applied, it is not a specific kind of wire. It is usually ~22 gauge copper wound on a spool of some sort, from radio shack...

Answer 3

You could form the wire into coils around a ferrous metal rod & apply DC electricity to it.
That would make an electro-magnet

Answer 4

Yes, in fact, I **do** know how to make magnet wire. (Or most any other kind of wire you might want) And it's way, **WAY** more than you want to get into.

Just buy it from http://www.digikey.com


Doug