Any idea why? Magnet wire is magnet wire. They get destroyed when the lock box fails. Dave S <==happily thunking away on the second year of a home-made rewind job - should I be paranoid? ;-) --- In dmcnews@xxxx, "DMC Joe" <dmcjoe@xxxx> wrote: > Robert, > > From our experience lock solenoids that are rewound using a non factory > process have an extremely high failure rate. > > DMC Joe