andyme said:
very embarassing....i have broken half of the surrounding magnet....it is part of the 850C display. So my question: can the device still be working or is it impossible? if anyone knows enough about this kind of coil...it should be just the shield..so maybe I am in luck..
You have reduced the inductance, and threatened what remains with early saturation, but still might work. Get a pair of soldering irons (one of each hand) and tweeze that sucker off. Install new one end at a time, but improve the final position by melting both ends at once. Use flux, lots and lots of rosin flux if necessary, but be aware that alcohol or other solvent cleaners can attack the enamel insulation of the newly installed coil. Just don't drown it in cleaning spray is all I'm saying, wet qtip of alcohol won't hurt.
Other option, assuming its still working and you just want to stabilize the wreckage, is JBWeld. 5% Ferrosilicon "steel" filler is an excellent low loss gap filler for transformer glue-up. No substitute for missing ferrite, but 3x better than air is 3x better than nothing. Just blob it on and hope for the best. I've molded flyback cores of JB (with extra crushed ferrite filler) that had good Q out to 1MHz, the limit of my place of work's ability to measure. If you saved any broken bits and pieces of the original, I'd use JB to try and glue them back too, but preserve the ring shaped gap at the top. OK if JB gets inbetween or completely covers the coil, as it has more than enough distributed gap between bits of filler.