What to look for?

[ShannonH]

Hi guys,
I've been reading this subforum for a while, but not posted much because I'm really not very engineering minded, so I just learn and shut my mouth. I have decided to try to find a winder with an auto traverse mechanism so I can do a better job with my humbuckers. A local guy here has the majority of a Leesona winder, but says the motor may be missing (not a deal breaker per se). Is there anything I should be looking for as far as wear and tear or useability? This is quite different from the hand winding I've been doing, so I thought I'd ask. Thanks

Shannon

[madialex]

Talk To Jon Grundy, I think he knows a bunch about it.

[JGundry]

First is it a Leesona 102? One thing you will need is the gear sets. This is a must if you want to do different turn per layer counts. It may only have one set and it might not be the right one for your use so keep that in mind. On mine I replaced all the counters with electronic counters with an auto stop relay which was big bucks. The original counters were toast on mine. The auto stop solenoids were good on mine but I can imagine that would be a part that might be bad. Plan of taking apart and rebuilding the clutches which is time consuming and just a little overwhelming but not that bad really.

[ShannonH]

computer controlled...

You keep talking about making a computer controlled winder with a printer as a winding spool. Do you have any specifics on that?

[JGundry]

You keep talking about making a computer controlled winder with a printer as a winding spool. Do you have any specifics on that?

In case you are addressing me I have never mentioned using a printer as part of a computer controlled winder so I can't offer any specifics there.

[David King]

I might have mentioned it once, essentially that a printer has a lot parts in it that might be useful and that some of the basic printer functions could be hacked into a functional transverse using simple text files that repeat endlessly over a 1/2" bar graph or something stupid and impractical like that.

[ShannonH]

Sorry Jon, I thought is was you....

Thanks Dave. I actually though of using Q basic and a serial controller or something like that. then you could just loop the repetitions, and still have quite a bit of control over the whole process. I think i'd still put a counter on it to double check the final result.