[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.
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       |  _... 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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