Thrown together coil winder ;)

[Hood]

Have a big Aluminium welding job on at the moment and ran out of wire and the local stockists didnt have any of the 100mm dia rolls that I use in the spool on gun. I bought a big roll and started winding it onto the small rolls on my Triumph lathe but it gets boring and results are crap. Decided I could make up a couple of brackets for the front  turret in the Computurn  lathe and use my small winders screen and set up a new profile.
This is the result, its rough and not perfect winding but it will get me out of a scrape and with a bit of tweaking it will work well. Add to that the fact I get 20 wee rolls out of one big one, the big roll costs £47 the wee ones £7, so quite a saving if I dont have to constantly watch over it (dont tell my customers though )
Hood

[Tweakie.CNC]

Now that's what I call Scottish innovation. 

Tweakie.

[Hood]

You trying to say I am a tight bas%^$£d?



Hood

[RICH]

You got that idea from using the sewing machine where the big bobbin of thread is used for the whicha ma call it inside the sewing machine. 
Cheap no ........adaptive..... yes   
RICH

[Hood]

Ha ha nope, got the idea from needing the wire on the small spools for the migs spool on gun, and only being able to get a large spool
Alu mig  welding is a PITA if you have to feed the wire over a long distance and even a 3m torch can be a pain if you are twisting and kinking it. The spool on gun means I can get 10m away from the wire feed unit but the wire still only has to feed about 150mm 

Hood

[Tweakie.CNC]

Hood,

I have not seen the spool on gun before, looks like a brilliant tool.
Do you have to have a special drive unit / power unit to supply the power for the wire drive motor in the gun ?

Tweakie.

[Hood]

There are several variants of spool on guns, my previous one required that I fit a PCB inside the wire feed unit but I now have one that has an inline control box so only requires a standard Euro torch connection on the wire feed unit. That means I can swap from machine to machine without having to mess around wiring in a PCB.
Here is a link to the one I have, although I never got from that supplier, its just they have a pic of it.
http://www.migtigarc.co.uk/MIG_Welder/MTA_SGS360_Spool_Gun/mta_sgs360_spool_gun.html
and in the pic attached I have arrowed the control box.

Hood

[Tweakie.CNC]

Thanks for the info Hood, much appreciated.

Tweakie.

[ostie01]

Surprise me that no body have not yet asked if it can dispense beer.

Jeff

[Tweakie.CNC]

Methinks you are taking the P Jeff 

Tweakie.