Hey @starkatt, you seem like the most likely person to know out of the people we know; do you know what the proper method for stripping polyimide-insulated litz wire is? Considering it has thousands of individually-insulated strands I assume you're not meant to manually remove the insulation from each one. Is there a solvent to use or something?
No problem if you don't know, I just thought I'd ask just in case. I can't seem to find anything online.
@Rosemary not a clue, sadly.
@Rosemary My guess would be to burn it off, like magnet wire?
@starkatt Current thoughts are to try dipping it in methyl ethyl ketone, dichloromethane, a dilute solution of formic acid, or a concentrated solution of sodium hydroxide.
Apparently, kaptan has a temperature rating of 400°C, so maybe if we could exceed that by a substantial amount, say heating it to 800° or 1000°, it might burn off, but lacking a high-temperature solder bath I don't know how we're going to do that.
@starkatt Then again, we _are_ getting a propane torch meant for soldering copper pipe together. Maybe that could do it? We'll have to see.
@Rosemary fuckin' torch it, mate :)
@starkatt Any problem can be solved by sufficient application of fire!
@starkatt That is, if you consider the problem being on fire equivalent to it being solved, anyway.
@Rosemary ah :/