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Required Equipment

The Infinity Loops are made of stranded copper wire and are nano-coated.

First the Copper wire is prepared and the Infinity Loops are formed. For this process you need:

• stranded Copper wire
• cutting pliers, or scissors
• knife

When the Infinity Loops are formed, they become nano-coated. For this process you need:

• A plastic container with lid (not too big)
• Weights for weighting down the lid,
• Ready-made Copper Infinity Loops
• ~ 50 grams of pure NaOH powder or beads on 1 liter destilled water. (Do not use drain cleaners. You can buy it in art shops; it is used to remove paint as alkaline-based stripper, or in chemist's/drugstore)
• distilled water (according to the quantity of Infinity Loops and size of the plastic container) (e.g. 3 l water and ~150 grams of NaOH)
• A Zinc grid (can be a mesh, which is Zinc coated)
• Electric kettle or stove top to boil water

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Production of the bare Infinity Loops

Depending on the desired size of the Infinity Loops, select the length of the Copper wire. 20 cm of Copper wire results in a 6-8 cm long Infinity Loop, which can be attached to a Smartphone. If you want to position them on the Computer, Television, around the house, or on windows, they can also be larger. But it is not necessary to fill for example the whole window with them. A length of 8, 10, 15 cm is completely sufficient.

If you want to make many Ininity Loops at once, you may need a long Copper cable. From this you can remove all the plastic and then cut it into the desired lengths. How to remove the plastic from the wire, is explained in the following steps.

Preparation of the Copper stranded wire

Stranded wire is characterized by the fact that many small strands together form a wire. (See photo). You can find it in the hardware store, at an electrical store, or in an emergency, at home, in the power cables of your hair dryer, radio, television, coffee machine, etc. To do this, simply unplug the power cable from the outlet. Cut the entire electrical cord off of the appliance to use the whole cord.

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Removing the plastic from the wire

Usually there are two or three wires in a power cable. The plastic outer sheath must first be removed. There are several ways to do this. (If you buy stranded wires separately, this step is not necessary)

Variant 1

One way to remove the outer sheath is to have the knife in one hand, place the cable on it and press it with your thumb carefully. With the other hand, as well as with the thumb you turn the cable and the knife cuts deeper and deeper into the plastic. Once you have reached the inner wires you can pull the separated plastic part from the inner wires. This is how you proceed step by step until the inner cables are exposed.

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Variant 2

Another possibility is to place the cable on the table and hold it with one hand. Press the blade at a slight angle and with the other hand simply pull the cable backwards against the cutting direction. This way you take off a part of the plastic and can take the wires out.

Everyone has different approaches. With a little bit of trying you will find what way works best for you.

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Stripping off the plastic around the strands

Now you have exposed 2 or 3 wires, which are also covered with plastic. For these wires it is best to use variant 2 to remove the plastic. Do the same as above, especially with the stranded wire, it might require some practice. Put the knife with the cutting edge back at a slight angle, with a little pressure on the plastic, and pull the wire with the other hand underneath. If you hold the knife too steep, or press too hard, you might cut into the thin strands. If you hold the knife too loosely you might slide up over the plastic and start again at the same place. Don't worry, a few cut-through strands are no problem. With some practice you will get better quickly. Remove the plastic completely.

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Twisting together the individual strands of the wire

Hold one end of the wire strands in one hand and the other end in the other hand. With your fingers twist the strands together starting on one end and continue to twist all the way to the other end. Make sure you are twisting the strands firmly together and have secured any fine strands that were cut short into the group.

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Fof the Infinity Loop

Now the Infinity Loop gets formed.

The wire is formed into a circle with the two ends crossing each other and extending 1-2 cm beyond the circle. Twist the ends with the circle. Take the circle in both hands between your fingers and turn one side 180 degrees to form a eight.

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Take one or more single strands and wrap the middle part so that it fits tight. Wrap one strand around the area where you have connected the Infinity Loop wire. This strand will later be used to hang the wire for the Nano-coating process. (It is important that the area where you have connected the Infinity Loop wire is on top, as it will be easier to reach it later with the poles of the multimeter).

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Preparing the plastic box for the Nano-coating process

This example here is one way you can make your nano-coating box.

Here two holes were made with glowing Copper wire to put two twisted, solid Copper wire through. Later on, the Infinity Loops will be hung up on them. The Copper wire around the outside of the box is used to stabilize the wire that is placed inside the box. It was additionally fixed with hot glue. Alos the holes in the plastic box were sealed with hot glue.

Before they go to the next step, they have to determine how much water they need. To do this, you can hang an Infinity Loop inside and fill the box with water until the whole Infinity Loop is under water. The water must not be higher than the holes in the plastic box that were made to put the suspension wires through. Otherwise the later caustic solution can eat through the hot glue and run out. The hot glue only serves to prevent the fumes from escaping later. Now you can empy your water in a measuring cup and you know exactly, how much water.

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Now, before we go any further, you'll put on your safety gear! NaOH is an extremely corrosive material and any skin contact or inhalation of the vapours should be avoided completely. Put on gloves, goggles, respiratory protection (mask, towel, ...) and also long clothes to cover and protect the skin completely.

Now you know how much water you need and also you can calculate with it, how much NaOH you need. For 1 liter destilled water you need approximately 50 grams of NaOH. (So for 750 milliliter you need approximatly 37,5 grams of NaOH). Empty the NaOH in your cup.

Cut the chicken wire so that it fits into the box. Bend the sides 1.2 cm so that it is 1 to 2 cm above the bottom, when you put it in the box. (The Infinity Loops must not touch the chicken wire later).

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Now the Infinity Loops are hung up and fixed in the box. They should not touch each other and should also be fixed in such a way that they cannot really turn or move.

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