Cord braiding machine
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Hi everyone
Saw this tonight in the toy store smyths. Might be good for making braided cables on a restoration project?? Cheers. Mike |
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Curiosity got the better of me so had to check how it works on youtube . Comes up under cool maker.
Pete |
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Coool!
Santa, I want one. Seems to be a £30 item, Argos have then and on the ebay. Refilling kits extra. Used to bobbin knit when I was a kid. |
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You can use an empty cotton reel with four panel pins...
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Yes but it takes ages and you generally use just one thread (you can use four, as many as the panel pins). I take it that the reels on this machine do their Maypole-like dance around the centre? I'm thinking you may be able to use more exotic threads, like Nomex, to make up braided cables!
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I also wonder how well the cotton-reel technique works with modern plastic cotton reels - i.e. how well the panel pins stay in place.
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My late nan called this french knitting and I remember as a wee boy back in the 1960s being shown how it was done with a wooden cotton reel and 4 pins.
If you google "french knitting" there is a mass of stuff including various machines. Terry |
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If you used as low a number of reels as possible (3?) of fine thread, maybe it could be used to make cotton covered enamel copper wire for wave winding.
Frank |
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Would this be any cheaper than just purchasing Vintage Braided Cable on ebay etc?
which is about £2.30 per metre, cheapest I've seen it. |
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