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Title: old feather burner
Post by: burn em up chuck on September 19, 2008, 05:16:29 pm: i just wanted to share what my mother and father enlaw got me at a garage sale. correct if i'm wrong but is'nt this an old feather burner? there's only one sticker, and i can only read one word EASTERN. looks like there were two words just can't read the second word. maybe someone here knows?
question; what kind of wire was used for burner wire? should i try and use it or copy it for use?

chuck

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Title: Re: old feather burner
Post by: Bowbound on September 19, 2008, 05:17:29 pm: Pictures? Can't rally tell without pictures ;)
Title: Re: old feather burner
Post by: welch2 on September 19, 2008, 06:18:09 pm: Here's a link to a related discussion. Your burner looks like a large wire wound resistor ,that is in series with the burner wire.

http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/reply/43344#reply-43344 (http://paleoplanet69529.yuku.com/reply/43344#reply-43344)

It seems people have used several things as the hot wire ,even small diameter guitar strings . One of the preferred is heating wire (can't remember the technical name) the same wire used in toasters .

Ralph
Title: Re: old feather burner
Post by: markinengland on September 19, 2008, 06:21:49 pm: Chuck,
If you gert hold of an old toaster the toaster wire from that should work OK.
This very long link may help set it up. You can find it through a google image search for easton feather burner
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.bambooarrow.com/burner02.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.bambooarrow.com/burner.html&h=1537&w=736&sz=315&hl=en&start=4&usg=__mPOM-NBgnz8B2I0DijO85zsCPHk=&tbnid=2FHXlBmIoqe16M:&tbnh=150&tbnw=72&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dfeather%2Bburner%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG%26ie%3DUTF-8
Title: Re: old feather burner
Post by: welch2 on September 19, 2008, 06:25:24 pm: I hate when I can't remember stuff , so I looked it up. The wire used in toasters is Nichrome wire and it is an alloy of nickel and chromium .You can buy spools of it on that online auction site.

Ralph
Title: Re: old feather burner
Post by: El Destructo on September 19, 2008, 10:23:14 pm: I just used an old Soldering Iron...and some Stainless Steel Wire

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Title: Re: old feather burner
Post by: mullet on September 19, 2008, 11:23:20 pm: Good, cheap idea, Mike.
Title: Re: old feather burner
Post by: El Destructo on September 19, 2008, 11:56:10 pm: yeah....and all you have to do is bend a different shape wire...for different Arrows....I cut these with it too....

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Title: Re: old feather burner
Post by: Cromm on September 20, 2008, 08:40:28 pm: Very nice....
Title: Re: old feather burner
Post by: chessieboy on September 20, 2008, 09:59:44 pm: A friend has that same model. He loves it. You can get replacement wire at the hardware store. Usually like $.15 per foot.
Title: Re: old feather burner
Post by: stickbender on September 21, 2008, 12:11:08 am: Hmmmm, now all I have to do is remember where that old soldering gun is......or hit the flea markets.
Cool idea! Sure beats $90or more dollars. Also, I think I remember something about using the old model train set transformer, which has an adjustable rheostat, and two screw clamps for the wire.

Wayne
Title: Re: old feather burner
Post by: scattershot on September 22, 2008, 12:53:18 pm: You can still buy the nichrome ribbons at Kustom King and 3Rivers, I believe.
Title: Re: old feather burner
Post by: PeteC on October 06, 2008, 09:39:29 pm: I built the simple feather burner shown in the link above,, yesterday.I am using my battery charger set on 6 volts ,as suggested.Man,I wish I had built this thing years ago.IT WORKS GREAT!!!! God Bless