Gizmo + pin vise to make tensioned coils

[Filthy-Beast]

A while back I mentioned in another thread that I put the wire through the hole in the spool and use that to wrap my tension coils. Very easy to keep tension and if the wire breaks or the spool drops it does not unravel.

Recently I've started wrapping tension coils on a pin vise and use the gizmo to hold the spool.

 

[jifjifjif]

That looks smart to me. Hadn't thought of that. Thanks.

 

[Soignee]

Easy peasy. I like it! Thanks FB!

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

Nice! How are you keeping tension on the spool? With your free hand?

 

[pennysmalls]

^^ What papa said, how are you keeping the tension?

 

[Filthy-Beast]

I pull on the pin vise as I twist, One hand on the handle the other on the mandrel. I just pull back and twist.

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

And the spool is tight on the gizmo? Friction fit or am I missing something?

 

[Flavored]

I just unreel one or two wraps from the reel, poke the end back through the little hole in the rim of the reel, pinch the end with the nut on the mandrel, grab the wire with needle nose for tension, and crank the gizmo mandrel, get as much tension as my arm can apply.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

no it not's tight, no need for it. The wire runs through a hole in the side of the spool, so I can pull on it as hard as I want and it does not turn.

 

[redeyedancer]

The whole forum is full of mr fancy's first roger with his magical rubber band now you with your motorized coil gizmo

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

I think Rob wants us to get off his lawn

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

no it not's tight, no need for it. The wire runs through a hole in the side of the spool, so I can pull on it as hard as I want and it does not turn.

Ah. Yeah, the spools I have don't have the handy hole for stabilizing the wire.

 

[Filthy-Beast]

Ah. Yeah, the spools I have don't have the handy hole for stabilizing the wire.

easy enough to add one

 

[Papa_Lazarou]

easy enough to add one

True dat. Off to find a hole punch.

 

[six]

True dat. Off to find a hole punch.

How about a lighter and a drill bit? Maybe your leatherman to hold the drill bit so you don't burn your fingers when you get the bit hot enough to melt through the plastic.

 

[six]

Recently I've started wrapping tension coils on a pin vise and use the gizmo to hold the spool.

You could motorize this if you turned it around the other way. Drill a hole in the shaft you are using to coil on. Run the wire through that hole... Put the pin in your drill. Keep the wire run through the hole in the spool, but instead of the pin being the thing you get closer to the spool as you wrap, make the spool the thing that gets closer to the pin as the drill spins the shaft.

I sort of wonder if that makes as much sense out loud as it does in my head... ??

 

[Filthy-Beast]

Makes sense and would work if you could get the drill to turn slow enough. The constant tension means my coils don't spring and open up even though I don't anneal the wire. I wrap spaced coils and the method I use allows me to get the spacing very even, if the spacing is off I can back off a wrap, adjust the angle of the pin vise and keep going. So my ugly coils aren't so ugly

 

[Spydro]

So you found something the Gizmo is actually good for it appears FB. I still won't bother with using mine, but for those that do march on.

 

[muzichead]

The whole forum is full of mr fancy's first roger with his magical rubber band now you with your motorized coil gizmo

I know there is a Robism in there somewhere!!!! Calling Ms. Karen, calling Ms. Karen....