24-12-2016, 11:56 PM
I use the cheap nylon line. You are correct in saying pretty much everybody uses braided due to the shaft. The snag is I was looking at 18 quid a reel of braided wire. Whereas the nylon was a quid a reel. Suffice it to say I experimented a lot to try and get the cheap fishing line to work. I tried dummy drives using shaft and small weights. I had some headaches with it. Finally I did get the cheap fishing line to work and it has a 30 pound tension capacity. Like the OP I too found the schematic didn't match what I actually had before me (an extra guide cog). Actually this mechanism I did with fishing line turns a corner and runs via 4 or so front pulleys plus the tuner shaft (which I modified). Other alternatives people used is kite string. Some claim Bob's tuning chord is pretty authentic. All I can add is it can be damned hard to string a dial chord from zero.
