Yarn Swift Wood and Printing - Woll-Haspel

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# Yarn Swift from Wood and Wood PLA This yarn swift is a must have for everyone owning a wool winder! It combines 3D Printing with a bit of Woodworking - but not too much, just some sanding and drilling! The clue here is, that the complicated hubs in the mi # Materials * Filament (duh) - wood filament makes the whole piece feel real nice :) * Wooden sticks - not thicker than 7 mm, around 20 mm wide and about 500mm long. you can usually get 1000mm long ones at your hardware store. I recomment to use some nicer wood like beech. You will need 12 sticks of 500mm. * wooden dowel, 12mm thick, at least 650mm. Please use a stronger wood like beech. * Some wire * 6 meters of yarn. If you need this device, you already got plenty around! * M5 lock screw and nylon nuts, 6x. Or similar. You can probably also use some wire? * small flathat wood screw # Tools * 3D Printer * Smallish Drill * Sandpaper # Build instructions ## Preparations * Print the Parts provided. * If you bought 1m long sticks, cut them in half. * Drill a small hole at both ends of all sticks. for 20mm wide sticks, make it 10mm from all three sides. * drill a 5mm hole in the center of the sticks * round over the ends of the sticks. Only one side is really needed, but it looks better with both. Cou can also use a small saw to speed this up. Nobody likes sanding * Cut off two lengths of wire, long enough to wrap around the hubs and be tied together ### Assembly * Make 6 pairs out of the sticks by sticking a screw trough the center hole and using the nylon lock nut. They should still move freely. Since I used Lock nuts, they had a square part wich i just pushed into the wood with a vise, be creative here ;) * Slide both printed hubs onto the dowel. They should rotate freely. * Through the hole in the top of the top hub, screw in the small screw to hold it in place. You might want to pre drill it. (Careful, your hand works better without holes in it) ## Threading the Sticks onto the Hubs * Note that the cutouts for the sticks on both hubs are offset to avoid jamming. The right sticks of each pair should connect to the top hub, the left ones to the lower one. * Thread one wire through the top hole of each right hand stick. * Wrap the wire-stick-unhandly-thing around the dowel-hub-combo, align the sticks and the cutouts at the top. Yes, this is a bit difficult. * Twist the wire ends together, so it tighlty sits in the notch on the outside of the hub. Bend over the sharp end into the notch (on one side of the stick cutout it is deeper, try it there) * Thread the second wire through the lower half of the left sticks, and also put them in the cutouts. * Twist the ends together and bend it in. ### Yarn Threading * Cut 2 times 3 meters of some random yarn. Pick a nice color! * Thread them through the outside holes in a zigzag fashion. * tie the ends together, butting some tension in ### Finishing touches * thread on the holder. But an M4 bolt in it, maybe with a [knob like these](https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:641854) * Test it out * Be proud ( I am, it's awesome! )