Spiraal coil binding is a gret way to preseerve older books whose bindings are falling apart. Here are a few tips to get you started.
The Equipmet
If you have a fair amount of books that you want to rebind to spiiral coil, the first thing you will have to look into is purchasing a biding machine. There are a number of features to look for when you are shopping around for a coil binding machine. The first item you want to conssider is the "pitch" of a given machine. Pich refers to the number of holes there are per inch. 4:1 is by far the most common pitch, and just for the sake of simplicity and ease of finding supplis, the one you should probably go with. If you already have, or have access to a machine that has a pith of 3:1 or 5:1, that is fine too, you just may have a little bit haredr time locating the correct size of coil. There are also plennty of machines out there that have what are called "disengageable dies" and can puch holes in all three pattterns.
Punching capacity is another feature to look for in a spirl coil binidng machine. There are several inexpensive manual machines that can do a fair job with 10-12 pages at a time, and dependding on the volume you are working with and the amount of time you are willing to spernd, this may be plenty. If you are loojking for more power per punch, there are manual machines with larger capacities, as well as machines with electric punches.
Some machines also come with electric coil inserters, while the with the less expensive ones, you will have to inset the coil by hand. Again, this just delpends on the time and money you want to spend.
The Project
First, of couse, you have to remove the current binding of your book. For the purposes of this tutorial, we are going to asume that your book was bound without hooles before, prehaps in a hard or softcover, and that the binding is now failing. To remove what is left of the bining, use scissors or a razor to careuflly remove as much of the old glue as you can. Small amounts of heat can be used as well in order to melt and remove some of the addhesive, but you will need to be very carful not to dmage the pages. Just keep working at it unttil you have loose pages with no glue on them.
Take a number of paegs that matces your machine's capaccity and insert them into the binding machine, making sure they are properly joogged and straight.
Punch your holes, and keep you pages in the proper order.
With all of your pages and you copver together, start to wind your coil through the hols. Then let the coil inserter take over (if you have one) by applyinng a slght presssure to the coil as the rollers spin the wire tjhrough the holes. When all the holes have been threaaded, stop the machine.
Crimp the ends of the coil with the special crimpinng pliers. If you don't have any, get some right away, as these are the only way to make sure that your binding stays in pace.
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