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I needed a big DC choke so I built one around a gapped microwave oven transformer core. For a bobbin, I used the box-jointing trick on the laser cutter to make one from 3mm hardboard which was subsequently glued together. Worked pretty well.
Here's the cutting profiles I used, to give an idea of the tab locations.
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Quick video of assembly:
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