42 gauge Vintage Plain Enamel Coil Wire - 1/2 lb Spool
42 gauge Vintage Plain Enamel Coil Wire - 1/2 lb Spool

42 gauge Vintage Plain Enamel Coil Wire - 1/2 lb Spool

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PE Plain Enamel - 'Vintage' Coil Wire - 1/2 lb Spool

This is the type of coil wire used on most vintage pickups. The copper wire has a single build of plain enamel as the insulator.

 

Technical

42 gauge - This is the most common gauge of wire used in building and rewinding most modern electric guitar and bass pickups. This wire has a nominal diameter of 0.0025". Each half pound spool contains approximately 25,000 feet of wire......enough to do 5 or 6 single coil pickup or 2 to 3 humbuckers.

Specifications
Nominal Diameter Bare Copper Single Build
  Diameters Resistance Minimum Increase Overall Diameter
(Ohms/1000 ft.) **
               
  min nom max min nom max   min nom max
[AWG] [inch] [inch] [inch] [Ohm/1000ft] [Ohm/1000ft] [Ohm/1000ft] [inch] [inch] [inch] [inch]
               
44 0.0019 0.002 0.0021 2,305 2,589 2,873 0.0002 0.0021 0.0023 0.0024
                     
43 0.0021 0.0022 0.0023 1,922 2,137 2,352 0.0002 0.0023 0.0025 0.0026
                     
42 0.0024 0.0025 0.0026 1,504 1,652 1,801 0.0002 0.0026 0.0028 0.003
                     
Nominal Diameter Area Single Build Recommended Winding Tensions Elong.
    Lbs./ 1000Ft Ft/lb Ohm/lb or /gram * Wires/Sq.ln Ohm/Cu. ln.      
                   
  nom nom nom nom nom nom      
[AWG] [circ. mils]           [g] [%]  
                   
44 4,00 0.0125 79,798 206,897 206,611 44,641 22 21  
                   
43 4.84 0.0151 66,092 141,619 176,611 31,536 26 22  
                   
42 6.25 0.0195 51,313 85,147 127,551 17,638 34 24