Re: Homemade coil winding lathe

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Original poster: Bart Anderson <classi6-at-classictesla-dot-com> 

Fairly simple arrangement which is nice. If the rod is fully threaded and 
simply riding in the wooden thru-holes, as you turn it it will try to drive 
toward one side (may get somewhat tight after a while). If you dremel out 
an area on the outer side of both wooden supports and insert bearings, then 
you could easily just use a couple nuts locked together at each end to lock 
the rod in place. It would be a nice free turning jig.

Something else which is nice to throw on (besides a slow motor) is a simple 
mechanical counter if you have one laying around. I simply attach a prox 
sensor to a support and mount a metal flag that passes over the prox each 
revolution. The prox drives the counter (if your interested in counting 
turns. If not, no need to do it).

Take care,
Bart

Tesla list wrote:

>Original poster: "Hydrogen18" <hydrogen18-at-hydrogen18-dot-com>
><http://www.hydrogen18-dot-com/articles/winding_lathe/>http://www.hydrogen18-dot-com/articles/winding_lathe/ 
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>I made a coil winding lathe today, looks to be promising. I'm a bit too 
>tired to wind it today considering I wired the garage for 240 VAC at 30 
>amps and built this lathe in under 2 hours. Can any1 see any flaws in my 
>design?
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