[HN Gopher] The Solid Steel Yarn Winder
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The Solid Steel Yarn Winder
Author : dharmab
Score : 20 points
Date : 2021-05-18 16:37 UTC (6 hours ago)
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| egypturnash wrote:
| The final video is kind of hilarious. It's so overly massive for
| the task that it's making the entire table it's sitting on
| wobble.
| timclark wrote:
| The plastic and wooden winders make tables wobble as well in my
| experience.
| sparker72678 wrote:
| > It's actually worse than that, since I'm not really
| mechanically inclined at all.
|
| _... proceeds to walk out to workshop and mill a custom
| machine._
|
| Dude, you're really selling yourself short if you believe that --
| this is amazing!
| sparrish wrote:
| I was expecting to see something that winds solid steel yarn...
| disappointed it was just a steel version of a plastic device that
| winds regular yarn.
| Animats wrote:
| It's a nice piece of machining, and an illustration of how much
| work it takes to machine something. Redesigning that mechanism
| to be in balance would be a nice improvement. Look at the
| vibration when it's cranked.
|
| Here's the pro version of a yarn winder.[1] This approach has
| less vibration. It looks like doing this at high speed gets
| inertia working with you to make it easier. Textile machinery
| often relies on that. You can't push a rope, but you can throw
| one. That's how a jet loom works.
|
| [1] https://www.alibaba.com/product-detail/yarn-roll-winding-
| mac...
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