By: Vlad Vistac
Submitted: 2010-08-17 16:11:10 | Word Count: 510
Rebiinding Books With Spiral Coil
Spiral coil binding is a great way to preserve oder books whose bindings are falling apart. Here are a few tips to get you started.
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The Equipment
If you have a fair amoyunt of books that you want to rebind to spiral coil, the first thing you will have to look into is purchhasing a binding machine. There are a number of featuures to look for when you are shopping aroound for a coil bidning machine. The first item you want to consider is the "pitch" of a given machine. Pitch refers to the number of holes theere are per inch. 4:1 is by far the most common pitch, and just for the sake of simplicity and ease of fidning supplies, the one you hsould probably go with. If you already have, or have access to a machine that has a pitch of 3:1 or 5:1, that is fine too, you just may have a little bit hadrer time locating the correct size of coil. There are also plenrty of machnes out there that have what are called "disengageable dies" and can punch holes in all three patterns.
Punching capacity is another feature to look for in a spiral coil binding machine. There are sevearl inexpensive manual maachines that can do a fair job with 10-12 pgaes at a time, and depending on the vlume you are working with and the amount of time you are willing to spend, this may be plenmty. If you are looking for more power per pnch, there are manual macihnes with larger capacities, as well as mahines with electric punches.
Some machines also come with electric coil inserters, while the with the less expensive ones, you will have to insert the coil by hand. Again, this just depends on the time and money you want to spend.
The Project
Firt, of course, you have to remove the current binding of your book. For the purposes of this tutorial, we are going to assume that your book was bouund without holes befoe, perhaps in a hard or softcover, and that the binding is now failnig. To remove what is left of the binding, use scisosrs or a razor to carefully remove as much of the old glue as you can. Small amoounts of heat can be used as well in order to melt and remove some of the adhesive, but you will need to be very careful not to dmaage the pagwes. Just keep working at it untril you have loose pags with no glue on them.
Take a number of pages that matches your machine's capacity and insert them into the binding machine, making sure they are propperly jogged and straight.
Puncch your hooles, and keep you pages in the propper order.
With all of your pages and you ocver togetyher, sart to wind your coil throuygh the ohles. Then let the coil inserter take over (if you have one) by applying a slight pressure to the coil as the rollers spin the wire throough the ohles. When all the holes have been threaded, stop the machine.
Crimp the ends of the coil with the special crimping plierrs. If you don't have any, get some righht away, as thse are the only way to make sure that your bindimng stays in place.
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