Does hand winding mean hand on the wire?

[Spence]

Jon, you're a comedian if not a pickup maker.

[Stan H]

Hehehe...funny stuff

[JGundry]

Jon, you're a comedian if not a pickup maker.

But I'm the only comedian with a Leesona 102 and a multi bobbin hand guided and computer guided winder of my own design.

[Spence]

But I'm the only comedian with a Leesona 102 and a multi bobbin hand guided winder of my own design.

You should take them on tour with Steven Wright. He need's a stooge.

[kevinT]

You all crack me up!!!!

[JGundry]

You should take them on tour with Steven Wright. He need's a stooge.

That would never work. Steven Wright still thinks PAF's are hand wound.

[Spence]

That would never work. Steven Wright still thinks PAF's are hand wound.

Great. Well there's the whole basis for your act. Steven wright needs to incorporate a bit of slapstick into the show.

[JGundry]

Great. Well there's the whole basis for your act. Steven wright needs to incorporate a bit of slapstick into the show.

The problem is Steven is too busy powering his pedal driven winder while having his hands full with the winding to do anything else.

[Spence]

Shame. Well I suppose you'll have to go back to pedalling your pedals and showing people around your antique winder mausoleum.

[JGundry]

One man's Library of Congress is another man's antique book mausoleum. It just depends or your perspective, and thirst for knowledge.

[David Schwab]

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having enough sense to be lazy.

If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

[Spence]

As Sam Lee Guy once said during a moment of clarity,

"Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life"

That's thought provoking.

[David Schwab]

Those were Steven Wright quotes by the way...

[Spence]

Those were Steven Wright quotes by the way...

The man's a legend.

[Joe Gwinn]

You're right, it does jerk to a certain degree. My tensioner's arm bobs up and down because of this. I have minimized it... but i don't think you can, with the setup that i have, get the bobbing/jerking totally out of the picture. I also have a felt clamp that maintains light tension between the tensioner and the rollers on the wire guide of my machine. I think this helps minimize it as well. ...

That is funny that you mention this....when i started using my machine i had this problem. I would program the machine to do a certain number of turns at a slow start speed to get the coil started and then it would kick in to the general winding RPMs that i programmed....many times the wire would snap. I had to find the "sweet spot", were the jerk was minimized between the slow start speed and regular winding speed.

It sounds like you could use a dancer, which can be as simple as a very light spring made of music wire that bobs up and down in unison with bobbin rotation. Think of a fishing pole as the model.