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Re: Tensioners

9/8/2002 2:44 PM
R.G.Re: Tensioners
quote:
"I took the tensioner and the motor of a sewing machine... Itīs a knob with numbers on it , like a guitar volume knob , and two metalplates and a spring too...I put felts between metalplates , thought the metalplates only was a bit hard on the insulation."
 
Neat! It's the same problem, and a good solution.  
 
quote:
"I've got a winder built from Jason's Winding Book ( great book , buy it ) and there's a long tensioning-arm which the tensioner is mounted on."
 
I used to wind transformers on a manual winder we had in our power supplies lab, so I'm pretty familiar with winders. It had a tensioning arm apparatus on it too. Fishing rod looking thing.  
 
I suspect I could draw up something to do a winder.  
 
R.G.