Pickup Making Injuries

[David Schwab]

I had a pickup fly off the winder, if I wasn't wearing glasses.... well I don't know what it would have done to my eye. I'm sure it would have hurt.

Was it off center or something? Generally the bobbins just fall straight down with little impact. I had a bobbin fall off yesterday.

[jworrellbass]

It was a new winder I built using a fan motor. I was wondering how fast it would go. It turns out pretty fast 3300 rpm! That will shot the bobbin at you. I usually wind around 500 rpm. The only problem I have now is if I don't replace the double sided tape offen, then the bobbin falls off.

[David Schwab]

It was a new winder I built using a fan motor. I was wondering how fast it would go. It turns out pretty fast 3300 rpm! That will shot the bobbin at you. I usually wind around 500 rpm. The only problem I have now is if I don't replace the double sided tape offen, then the bobbin falls off.

I also use double sided tape, and currently I'm powering my winder with a variable speed drill, so I can get it going so fast that I can burn my fingers on the wire.

Still when the tape is too old the bobbin just drops to the table and never goes flying at me. It shouldn't since it's at the center of the spinning platen, so it has no momentum in any one direction. Gravity does the rest.

[jworrellbass]

My earier winder motor was a drill, the nice thing about using a small fam motor is you can hook up a varible speed fan control to it and dial in the speed you want. Also when the bobbin does fall off you can reach over and stop it with your hand without hurting your hand. It sucks when you're 75% though a wind and your bobbin comes off, by the time you get the motor to wind down your count can be off abit.

Here's my current setup.

[David Schwab]

Also when the bobbin does fall off you can reach over and stop it with your hand without hurting your hand. It sucks when you're 75% though a wind and your bobbin comes off, by the time you get the motor to wind down your count can be off abit.

Ironically, if you scroll up, that was my pickup making injury! I was used to being able to grab the platen and stop it. When the speed control in the winder died, I temporarily chucked a DeWalt vari-speed drill up to the left axel. That has a gearbox, so you can't stop it, as I found out.

And now it runs so fast I'm not in a rush to fix it.

I'll leave it like this until I make the CNC winder.

[jworrellbass]

Yes I did read that, the first time I reached over to stop the winder I thought of your description..lol..
As far as my bobbin hitting my glasses injury, it was durring the setup process, the winder wasn't shimmed and the block wasn't balanced. At a low speed the wobble wasn't to bad, it was when I cranked it to full on rpm is when it came after me. I almost built a face shield for it...lol..

[WolfeMacleod]

Ok, I think I'll chime in here.

Haven't had a whoel lot of pickup making injuries. I suppose the worst being super glue being flung into my eye... on my eyeball.
the occasional burn from sanding stuff or polishing raw unplated covers.
Hair caught in a drill...cuts from sharp edges...solder landing on delicate parts...

but here's one. Not pickup related, that happened to a friend while we were working.
Back when I used to make knives and swords for a living, we did what was called "flat stock removal" to grind blades. large angle gringer, flat bar of steel. grind untill desired.
Now Mac, who was a rather large guy, was working one day. In the din of the shop, you can't hear anyone coming up behind you. Well, someone was visiting that day, came up behind Mac, and gave him a friendly slap on the shoulder. While grinding on a blade.
before you knew it, most of Mac's innards had made the exit from his rather rotund belly and were laying somewhere around his knees. Yep, cut himself wide open and spilled his guts. gross. We stuffed him back together and sewed him up there in the shop. Recovery was slow, but he was OK eventually.

On another occasion, Mac was polishing the hook end of a Chinese Hook Sword. Google it. The buffer wheel caught the hook and flung it around into his neck with such force that it split seven welded links of a 16 guage chain mail coif that he was wearing to protect his neck in case this happened. We tried to replicate that by hand and could not...... we broke the sword, and buried it.
Had he not been wearing the coif, he would have lost his head in an instant.

[jonson]

Ok, I think I'll chime in here.

Haven't had a whoel lot of pickup making injuries. I suppose the worst being super glue being flung into my eye... on my eyeball.
the occasional burn from sanding stuff or polishing raw unplated covers.
Hair caught in a drill...cuts from sharp edges...solder landing on delicate parts...

but here's one. Not pickup related, that happened to a friend while we were working.
Back when I used to make knives and swords for a living, we did what was called "flat stock removal" to grind blades. large angle gringer, flat bar of steel. grind untill desired.
Now Mac, who was a rather large guy, was working one day. In the din of the shop, you can't hear anyone coming up behind you. Well, someone was visiting that day, came up behind Mac, and gave him a friendly slap on the shoulder. While grinding on a blade.
before you knew it, most of Mac's innards had made the exit from his rather rotund belly and were laying somewhere around his knees. Yep, cut himself wide open and spilled his guts. gross. We stuffed him back together and sewed him up there in the shop. Recovery was slow, but he was OK eventually.

On another occasion, Mac was polishing the hook end of a Chinese Hook Sword. Google it. The buffer wheel caught the hook and flung it around into his neck with such force that it split seven welded links of a 16 guage chain mail coif that he was wearing to protect his neck in case this happened. We tried to replicate that by hand and could not...... we broke the sword, and buried it.
Had he not been wearing the coif, he would have lost his head in an instant.

Not pickup related, but looks like Mac wins hands down so far. Nice to hear he's still around.