OT--The Spinning Jenny
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OT--The Spinning Jenny
Ok here we go again, the mother of spinning wheels that started the industrial revolution in spinning.
The spinning Jenny could spin several threads at once, this one will spin nine.
Got a lot done today on it, actually spun a thread.
Flywheel is next.
The spinning Jenny could spin several threads at once, this one will spin nine.
Got a lot done today on it, actually spun a thread.
Flywheel is next.
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Holly Moly!!!!!!! You've outdone yourself this time. I can't wait for the video on this one.
Whoooo Hooooo!!!
Joe
Whoooo Hooooo!!!
Joe
***Be sneaky, get closer, bust the cap on him when you can put the ball where it counts .***
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Thanks Joe, i have no idea where i`m going to put it
It is a neat piece of history, we don`t know how good we got it nowdays.
Will glue up the flywheel tomorrow and make the drop wire.
It is a neat piece of history, we don`t know how good we got it nowdays.
Will glue up the flywheel tomorrow and make the drop wire.
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Looking good Pitchy
Pete
Sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile gnawing through the leather straps to get up in the morning..................
Sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile gnawing through the leather straps to get up in the morning..................
Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
It`s coming right along, got the wood for the flywheel glued up, everything else is done.
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Ever thought about selling these things to museums and such? They might like "working" examples of these historically important implements.Pitchy wrote:Thanks Joe, i have no idea where i`m going to put it
It is a neat piece of history, we don`t know how good we got it nowdays.
Will glue up the flywheel tomorrow and make the drop wire.
Jeepnik AKA "Old Eyes"
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
That's what I was thinkin' too!jeepnik wrote:Ever thought about selling these things to museums and such? They might like "working" examples of these historically important implements.Pitchy wrote:Thanks Joe, i have no idea where i`m going to put it
It is a neat piece of history, we don`t know how good we got it nowdays.
Will glue up the flywheel tomorrow and make the drop wire.
Whatever you do always give 100%........... unless you are donating blood.
Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Yep that`s a thought, but i`m not worried something will come along and if not i`ve left the world something that will be around a while.
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
She`s about done, cut the flywheel out tomorrow and it`s ready to try.
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
wow! a nice job. You ought to see me build a bluebird house. I have to count my fingers when done to make sure i have them all. Don't fear though, i'm getting better over time. Made six so far.
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Thanks, i`m no carpender either and have to build as i go, the picture at the top of this thread is all i had to go by.rossim92 wrote:wow! a nice job. You ought to see me build a bluebird house. I have to count my fingers when done to make sure i have them all. Don't fear though, i'm getting better over time. Made six so far.
I`ve invisioned fingers missin on the table saw already
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
In building a spinning wheel for my wife, I read a lot of books. One of these that I thought was technical was actually mostly history, and the history of spinning was far more opressive than I had imagined. It consisted of forcing all women in England at one time to spin a certain amount of thread. The less mechanically complex wheels, great wheels required a woman to walk many miles a day to complete the quota. Interesting window into an earlier time.
Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Yes, i read a woman could walk 10-15 miles a day spinning so the Jenny was quite an improvement over the walking wheel. As was the Pendulum, eclipse and trolley wheels.TomD wrote:In building a spinning wheel for my wife, I read a lot of books. One of these that I thought was technical was actually mostly history, and the history of spinning was far more opressive than I had imagined. It consisted of forcing all women in England at one time to spin a certain amount of thread. The less mechanically complex wheels, great wheels required a woman to walk many miles a day to complete the quota. Interesting window into an earlier time.
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I was out at the county fair yesterday. No understand, this is the L A County Fair, so it is really just a bit commercial sales event. Anyway, in one very small area, tucked in a back corner, they had a number of women spinning. No to machines were alike. It's amazing how the human mind can take a single task and find so many different ways to accomplish it.
There was even one woman "spinning" with nothing more than a hand tool. Not fast, but she was getting it done.
There was even one woman "spinning" with nothing more than a hand tool. Not fast, but she was getting it done.
Jeepnik AKA "Old Eyes"
"Go low, go slow and preferably in the dark" The old Sarge (he was maybe 24.
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"Go low, go slow and preferably in the dark" The old Sarge (he was maybe 24.
"Freedom is never more that a generation from extinction" Ronald Reagan
"Every man should have at least one good rifle and know how to use it" Dad
Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Probably a drop spindle, spin it and draw out the wool then wind it on.
Getting there, flywheel is on, gotta grind in a belt groove then it will be ready to try.
Made a new crank that looks better too.
Getting there, flywheel is on, gotta grind in a belt groove then it will be ready to try.
Made a new crank that looks better too.
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Success, she`s a beauty, works like it`s spossed to for the first run.
Comments are appreciated, now on to the cross cut saws.
Comments are appreciated, now on to the cross cut saws.
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
That one I need to see in person and then I can ask questions. That is a marvelous bit of engineering.
Joe
Joe
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
When ya coming, it`s just about wood cuttin timeJ Miller wrote:That one I need to see in person and then I can ask questions. That is a marvelous bit of engineering.
Joe
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Lot of grain in that pine with some polly on it.
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Pitchy, that is FANTASTIC even more so when you made it from a picture not a plan, what is coming next
Pete
Sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile gnawing through the leather straps to get up in the morning..................
Sometimes I wonder if it is worthwhile gnawing through the leather straps to get up in the morning..................
Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Thanks Borregos , time for a vacation.Borregos wrote:Pitchy, that is FANTASTIC even more so when you made it from a picture not a plan, what is coming next
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Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Lenn you've out done yourself this time. That is some machine! With every project I think you've awwwwwed me for the last time. Then you come up with something like this one. Awwwww man!
Born in the Pineywoods of East Texas a long long time ago.
Re: OT--The Spinning Jenny
Thanks Gene, it`s a neat machine but good for i know not what.
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