CPu Fan as winder

[mojoman]

Hi,

Just thought I would mention that I have employed a motor from a router along with an auto transformer for speed control. This works great due to the fact the motor speed/torque can be readly varied by reducing the input voltage to the motor. I am therefore able to make tight/loose wound pickups without any trouble.

[madialex]

Yeah, good idea. But it kept sticking to my fingers and sometimes broke the wire. I thought I'd read somewhere about a sort of felt tensioner.

This is where experience comes in handy...

I use my bare fingers as well, you get a feel for it after a while and you can tell when to loosen up or tighten up but felt is ok for a new winder tensioning by hand, I just never liked it, i cant tell how much tension i'm actually getting with felt.