10-07-2014, 12:51 AM
This one is built on a low budget from a stash of bits and uses an ice cream maker for the drive. It retired with a worn mincer drive casting and bagged itself a new job.
Unlike other coil winders it has a vertical mandril.
I have had to add extra photos of the drive pinion as was is a fiddly thing to work with.
The turns counter does not count down but benefits from a preset automatic stop with a bank of switches that a valve tester owner would kill for.
The turns counter is a restoration I did earlier.
http://www.forum.radios-tv.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2892&p=29565#p29565
The magic eye
It watches the the mandril rotating with an evil looking red eye and this tells it what it should display.
The thing did need a pulse inverter and that went into the shell of a flat PP3 battery.
The other bits include racking steel and pipe fittings from old gas fires.
A bit of a tank float valve joined in too making it a junk box classic.
We are now on test and evaluation with an inverter transformer as the first victim of a road trip back to working again.
The magic eye has had a good look and it has found out that the photo limit is on the buffers with this extreme home brew madness. Another post will quickly fix it though.
Unlike other coil winders it has a vertical mandril.
I have had to add extra photos of the drive pinion as was is a fiddly thing to work with.
The turns counter does not count down but benefits from a preset automatic stop with a bank of switches that a valve tester owner would kill for.
The turns counter is a restoration I did earlier.
http://www.forum.radios-tv.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=2892&p=29565#p29565
The magic eye
It watches the the mandril rotating with an evil looking red eye and this tells it what it should display.
The thing did need a pulse inverter and that went into the shell of a flat PP3 battery.
The other bits include racking steel and pipe fittings from old gas fires.
A bit of a tank float valve joined in too making it a junk box classic.
We are now on test and evaluation with an inverter transformer as the first victim of a road trip back to working again.
The magic eye has had a good look and it has found out that the photo limit is on the buffers with this extreme home brew madness. Another post will quickly fix it though.