[Simon Wa3uay]

I just found this.....
https://electronics.stackexchange.com/qu...-from-wire

[Phlogiston]

The bulk wire I use for winding has a single coat that is removed by solder(ing) or just the heat. I think that most of the new magnet wire is that way.

++ on building your own tool (winder).

[Stan the Man]

I saw that at some point. The primary of my transformer is 3200 turns (by hand,neat!)of 38ga wire. I am using Remington wire. 650 turns in, I found a knot. The wire was looped under itself in a knot. I had no choice but to cut it. It was then that I learned to solder 38ga wire. My soldering iron seemed to do the trick, but I would like a better way to get the stuff off the wire.

[John Bartley]

There is a product out there called "liquid salts". As far as I know it is sodium hydroxide and it has to be heated from a solid to a liquid in order to work. I have some here that I bought to strip the "unstrippable" Litz wire that is found on the market. It works and works well.

https://www.eraser.com/

I melted mine in a little cast iron pot that I used to use for melting lead for musket balls ....