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Comment by ANDOMANDO,,also known as ANDY on June 22, 2011 at 11:36am

Genius.....

Comment by RL Mott on November 21, 2009 at 12:01pm

in the "credit where credit is due" column , I remembered where I got the calculator idea :

BigBadDom on September 29, 2009 at 3:46pm
On the chuck is a small piece of wood with double sided tape on. This holds the bobbin. Also on the edge of this is a magnet - a spare polepiece. On the post underneath is a reed switch. I wired this into the equals button on the calculator. Type in 1 + = and then it counts each revolution as I wind.
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didn't have a reed switch , so I fashioned the "E-string contactor "

Comment by Lou on November 21, 2009 at 11:50am

And it works,...AMAZING,... way to go. (:>}

Comment by RL Mott on November 21, 2009 at 5:15am

Thanks , Paul . Mulled it over a good while .

The motor is 1550 , Skees , and I figured the pulley ratio to gimme about 5:1 on advice from juju , so about 5 revs per second on the actual wind . Seems like I got 3000 in 11 minutes , the "cheatsheet" is out in the shop . 8^D

Comment by Paul Doug on November 21, 2009 at 4:00am

Look pretty ingenious to me. I wish I I was innovative like you. Great job.

Comment by Skeesix on November 20, 2009 at 7:09pm

Hi, nice winder and pickups. How many rpm's do you run it at? I started with a calculator counter too, but it didn't work above 200 rpm's or so, so I switched to a better counter. I run mine around 900 rpm's.