Thank you so much for this video! I picked up a Strauch jumbo ball winder as part of a lot of fiber tools and it was winding terrible cakes. Now I understand why!
I've been going through my stash looking for pieces to assemble into a ball winder and your video answers some questions. I cannot justify spending the kind of money fiber equipment costs and always drift towards DYI anyway. And, yours works and looks good, too.
haha.bravo . initial am trecut si peste blogul tau in timp ce ma documentam despre modul de fucntionare a unui ball winder dar debia acum mi am dat seama ca esti romanca :). iti apreciez efotul de a explica modul de functionare al acestui dispozitiv . incer sa mi construiesc si eu unul dar cu rulmenti si probabil roti dintate
If you refer to the actual winder (disk+bar) on which the yarn ball is formed, the winder is connected to the pulley in a fixed position in relation to the pulley but it spins along his own axe and it needs the mobility to be driven around it's own axe so it will make a criss cross winding of yarn. If the winder would be fixed to to pulley with no mobility at all around his own axe( there for no need for the rubber door stop to impose a motion to the winder) , he will have just one type of rotation togheter with the pulley and your yarn ball will not be a ball but actually just a simple winding because you took out of motion the part that variated it's position in order to make a ball by directing the ups and downs of the yarn in diffrent parts of the ball. As I said in the video , the winder needs to be able to complete a revolution rotation around the rubber door stop ( the same moovements that the earth does in relation to the sun- the rotation and the revolution). Easiest way to understand that by stopping the revolution movement of the winder you get just a wonky wind and not a ball wind , is to try and make one yarn ball winder and keep the winder fixed .
If you just bolted the spool to the small pully you would just get a spool without the criss cross effect which is what holds the ball together, The spool mounted at an angle moves the wool up and down the spool and the spool running against the rubber stopper slowly rotates the spool so the wool being wound moves round the spool and stops it being just wound in the same position on every rotation of the spool.
