| The armatures made by Autoworld and Dash have a tendencey to throw the windings. Well you may ask what is a thrown winding. Take a look at the picture to the right and it shows the loose armature wire at the end of the armature pole. I asked how to repair this on a couple of Facebook groups and got execellent answers. I would like to thank everyone that responded but in particular Ralph Rosson, Jeff Hartman, and Dan Cronin. This can be repaired and better yet it can be prevented. If you're interested then continue to read on. |  |
When repairing the thrown windings you have to gently move the wire(s) back onto the armature pole. I gently pull the wire back toward the center of the armature. to do this I use a disposable micro-brush. The fine bush like bristles are able to gently pull the wire without causing any damage to the wire.
Once you have tightned up the winding by moving it towards the center of th armature, then take a toothpick and put some CA (super glue) on it and put one drop on the winding of the armature pole. Using the side of the toothpick, very gently spread the CA over the armature pole winding. You will notice that the CA will wick into the winding. If there is any extra glue then take a paper towel and soak up the excess by lightly touching a corner of the paper towel to the excess CA. While you're at it repeat the process on the other two poles of the armature to prevent the windings on those two poles from doing the same. (Being Thrown)
As stated above you can perform this process on the Autoworld and Dash armatures before running them to prevent thrown windings from ever occurring. This process did not appear to affect the balance of the armature. I think the balance was unaffected because I repeated the gluing process on the other two windings as well. I will update this post on how durable this repair is and how well it performs.
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