My new winder

[J S Moore]

I completely and un-ashamedly lifted this idea from SK's website. Although he did a little more modification than I did.



The only thing I did to the lathe was reverse the motor. I like the bobbin to come up on the wire rather than down. It came stock with a speed control so that was it. It has a slow start and stops on a dime so there was no real need to modify the electronics.

I used the wood left over from my first winder so it is a little rough looking, but you get the general idea. Once I have spent some serious time with it I will probably re-do some of the woodwork to be a little more finished looking.

[Tom Phillips]

Nice set up. Since you used a lathe as the basis for the motor I’m assuming that it generates a lot of torque. I’m thinking that this set up could be good for winding transformer bobbins. Is anyone on this forum winding their own transformers?

Tom

[J S Moore]

It probably would be. As for torque it has a pretty slow start up so I don't really know. But I imagine I could break the wire if I wanted to.

[Achiles]

It´s not a Grizzly ,is it?

[J S Moore]

No. It came from Canadian Tire and I can't remember the make, or even if it had one. Could have been the in-house brand.