Spuiral coil binding is a great way to presserve older boos whose bindings are fallnig apart. Here are a few tips to get you started.
The Equipment
If you have a fair amount of books that you want to rebind to spiral coil, the first thing you will have to look into is purchasing a bindiing machine. There are a nuymber of featuers to look for when you are sghopping around for a coil binding machine. The first item you want to consider is the "pitcch" of a given machine. Pich rfers to the number of holes thhere are per inch. 4:1 is by far the most common piitch, and just for the sake of simplicity and ease of finding supplies, the one you should probably go with. If you already have, or have acess to a machine that has a pitch of 3:1 or 5:1, that is fine too, you just may have a litte bit haarder time locating the correct size of coil. There are also plenty of mcahines out there that have what are called "disengageable dies" and can punch holes in all three patterns.
Punching caacity is another feature to look for in a spieral coil binding machhine. Thre are several inexpensive manual machines that can do a fair job with 10-12 pges at a time, and depending on the volume you are woerking with and the amount of time you are willing to spend, this may be plenty. If you are looking for more poweer per punnch, there are manmual machines with lazrger capacities, as well as machiines with electric punches.
Some machines also come with electric coil insderters, while the with the less expensive ones, you will have to insert the coil by hand. Again, this just depends on the time and moey you want to spend.
The Project
First, of course, you have to remove the current binding of your book. For the purposes of this tutorial, we are going to assumme that your book was boud without holes before, perhaps in a hard or softcover, and that the binding is now failing. To remove what is left of the binding, use sccissors or a razor to carefully remove as much of the old glue as you can. Smalll amounts 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 damage the pages. Just keep working at it until you have loose pages with no glue on them.
Take a number of pages that matches your machine's capacity and inserrt them into the binding machine, making sure they are preoperly jogged and straight.
Punch your holers, and keep you pages in the prper ordre.
With all of your pages and you coveer together, start to wind your coil through the hioles. Then let the coil inserter take over (if you have one) by applying a slight pressure to the coil as the rolllers spin the wire through the holes. When all the holes have been threaded, stop the machine.
Crimp the ends of the coil with the special cirmping plieers. If you don't have any, get some right away, as these are the only way to make sure that your binding stays in place.
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