Looking for winder for multiple round coils

[belwar]

Anyone have a recommendation for a automatic coil winder to run multiple coils at a time? I'm producing a pickup with 8 coils per pickup, and two per instrument and want to automate the process... My wishlist is as follows..

3-6 bobbins per shot
Gear based
Automated traverse
upto 42 awg.

I like vintage machines.

I think there is a few meteor machines out there that might work. Does anyone have a recommendation? I'd like to do the least modding possible. I'd love to get my hands on a gorman 2+2 but I doubt that is going to happen.

Heres a picture of the bobbins

[David King]

You can stick all the bobbins on a shaft and put it between centers on a tailstock winder. You just need a narrow tensioner that you can stack up side by side on your traverse.

I'd think it would be easier to automate the loading and unloading of a single bobbin rather than have to do all that manually to a whole stack of bobbins at once and then repeat it every 6 minutes unless you have two winders going side by side at even intervals.

[belwar]

I plan on winding REALLY fast. The bobbins are not oblong but circular, so I dont have the normal whipping going on. Im sure I can get into the 6-7000 RPM range, maybe more if I slow start up..

[Joe Gwinn]

I plan on winding REALLY fast. The bobbins are not oblong but circular, so I don't have the normal whipping going on. I'm sure I can get into the 6-7000 RPM range, maybe more if I slow start up..

And slow stop as well.

[David King]

Why not just sub these coils out to a firm that has the high speed, automated winding equipment? Cine-Mag? I wonder if the bobbins already exist out there too -waiting to be tapped.

[peskywinnets]

Those coils look remarkably similar to ones I was windiing for Hex sustainer research...

(ignore the text - that relates to posting on a UK Engineering forum!)....that's a sewing machine bobbin that I wound copper wire onto!



I've parked the project for the time being, but I had a similar requirement (to wind six bobbins quickly). I'm too tight to sub out (anyway, this is just a hobby for me), so I was going to go bobbinless & wind straight onto the steel core....I even went so far as to get some little jigs made up to allow quick alignment/changing of the parts.

[David Schwab]

Those coils look remarkably similar to ones I was windiing for Hex sustainer research...

Similar, but with a lot more winds and thinner wire.

[chevalij]

Anyone have a recommendation for a automatic coil winder to run multiple coils at a time? I'm producing a pickup with 8 coils per pickup, and two per instrument and want to automate the process... My wishlist is as follows..

I know it doesn't do multiples, but my wife's sewing machine would fill a bobbin like that in about 30 seconds Even traverses nicely !

similar to this [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_gQABvM4hU"]YouTube - Sewing & Fashion Design : How to Wind a Sewing Machine Bobbin[/ame]

[belwar]

Thats pretty facinating. The traversing probably wouldnt work with magnet wire, but im going to go to my local fabric store and give it a try.. I say this product called "The easy winder" which may work if I can mod it to have a counter, and a better tensioner.

[Alabam]

I know it doesn't do multiples, but my wife's sewing machine would fill a bobbin like that in about 30 seconds Even traverses nicely !

similar to this YouTube - Sewing & Fashion Design : How to Wind a Sewing Machine Bobbin

This was how i used to wind round bobbins when i started pickup making a couple of years ago.
I ended up with with multiple coils with only one start and one end wire.

[JGundry]

This winder cost me around $400. It runs on RC servos. I had it set up to do as many as 8 humbucker bobbins but pared it down to 6 because it was not real stable. But I bet you could do 8 round bobbins easy. Dialing it in was a pain but once done it worked flawlessly.I stopped using it when I got the Leesona 102.

[chevalij]

Thats pretty facinating. The traversing probably wouldnt work with magnet wire, but im going to go to my local fabric store and give it a try.. I say this product called "The easy winder" which may work if I can mod it to have a counter, and a better tensioner.

There are also winders on ebay specifically for bobbins. Pretty cheap if I remember correctly, and probably easy to modify.