MOT question

If a SS hose clamp is proper, I'd use two, sized so I have an adjustment screw on both sides, to pull both sides down equally, and tight.

Mikek

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amdx
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Get out your hose clamps and give it a try. It ain't as easy as it sounds.

Best I can think of is to use two hose clamps in series to make one big one with the screws on each side. Pre-form the right angles into the assembly and crank it down. Note that you'll have zero force applied to the center of the E-section. If it's stiff and the welds on the independent E and I sections are strong enough to hold everything stable, it probably works. If it heats up and whatever holds the laminations together weakens and lets it twist... I'd still not recommend it. But, pay attention. What works perfectly on one MOT may not be safe on a slightly different MOT.

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mike

I understood this as meaning the clamp encircled one leg of laminations to compress them together, like a secondary winding or the plastic bobbin. A clamp around the whole transformer, parallel to the laminations, is part of the core.

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Jim Wilkins

Nope, vast majority of MOTs the core is laser welded in 2 places - center of the back of the "E" and center of the "closer"

When the coils are installed on the core a large hose clamp can hold the closer onto the "E" core -or you can clamp it in the vice like I did and weld it back together.- or drill 2 plates of steel pate to take long draw-screws to hold it together.

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clare

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