Hi Robert, I admire your cheerful attitude considering your recent loss. I’m just over 16 months into that journey and really wish I could follow your example. I also think I know you have really sad moments and thoughts, but to watch you with a smile, again something I have yet to get to grips with, is an inspiration. Keep smiling and making great video’s for as long as you can. Take care, Stefan.
Hi Robert, I agree with the pain. I try to keep busy most of the time, but mostly I think what is the point. It’s a sad club we belong to. The only way to feel empathy truly is to experience it. My family haven’t got a clue how badly I feel most of the time. The only good, if you can call it good, is my sweetheart hasn’t got to feel the pain we do being left without them. I hope you heal quicker than me , but I’m not sure if you will. Every day is Groundhog Day. I’m still glad you’re making the videos that I’ve always watched. All the best Stefan.
Thank you for the video, the joy you found in telling about your make brought joy to my day. My condolences on the loss of your Patti, I am glad you've found some joy with inventing! Peace.
Hey Rob, easy suggestion for the drive motor. Make the drive gear with a hex bit to attach an electric drill. It might not be as elegant, but everyone has a drill and it's usually charged.
Thanks Robert. Grew up from 1974, Holidays at my parents caravan every school holiday in Reculver. You connect my past and my love for Science and Engineering! Thank you!
Hi Robert, If you make the tape holder axis adjustable (tilt along the circumference) then you can set it to the width of the tape you are using so that it spools the tape onto the shaft flat. It would also make it self advancing for the most part. Cool build! Thank you for the great videos and all the best from California! 🧡
Stefan, I love you man. You made me smile. First thing in the morning no less. That in itself is an amazing accomplishment. Thank you for this excellent video. Please keep making content. Please keep your head up. That smile is great. Hoping to see more from you!
Something like this would work for wrapping toroidal inductors. Toroidal winders usually use a metal split ring which is pulled apart and linked with the toroidal core (like linking rings), then loaded with wire in an external groove on the outside of the ring. Once loaded, the end of the wire is taped down and a mechanism drives the ring toroidally (unwinding the wire off the ring and onto the core) while advancing the core at a rate of 1 wire thickness per turn. Once you get a layer down, the remaining wire is taped down and cut off, and the split ring unlinked. You probably couldn't replace the metal split ring, but the rest of the mechanism should be fine. Nice for high frequency power supply builds.
It's a marvelous mad mechanism. It's cool to have a tool that does one job perfectly. I could see using that to tie up wires and hoses. The same principle can be used to wrap toroidal coils. Put a blade on the inside it could strip cables or cut pipes. In a way it could even work as the exact opposite of a lathe.
That's a really interesting tool, and I appreciate that, I actually had no idea TinkerCAD was so simple for gear building. I've seen you do it before but it just never connected in my mind I suppose. I was dreading an upcoming design but I think you may have reduced my headache significantly, what a lovely gift for a Saturday afternoon!
Hi Robert great vid as usual in the past if I needed an internal gear I just extracted an external gear from a bigger disk not perfect I know but it works suprisingly well and the gears seem to mesh just as well as normal
I can think of a lot of uses with some caveats of course for this device. Thinking a linear drive to move it in a smooth linear motion and you have a nice large gauge wire wrapper. Probably need to bulk it up a bit though, but very doable. Hmm....liking this quite a bit Robert. Thanks for the video! Keep them coming!
Back in the 1970's I worked at the phone company and we used a tool which probably was of a similar design on the inside. It was for wrapping a wire around a strand of wire and the 100 pair telephone cable between 2 telephone poles. It was actually pretty cool to work with.
Still commonly used around my neighborhood, not for 100-pair though. Once on the overhead wire bundle, they walk it down the street from ground level like a flying dog.
I used to work for a company that had a large stationary toroidal winder for wrapping crepe paper around rings. I had not seen a hand-held wrapper but can see how it would be useful.
Brilliant Robert although I would have gone straight to the motor driven option 😂 Your passion for creating with engineering particularly with 3D design and printing is obvious, have you ever considered doing workshops with maybe teenagers to share that passion and perhaps kick start careers in design and engineering?
Awesome, I think I might give tinker cad a go now. Been putting it off for ages but it just seems so easy compared to SU. Nice new intro too, or have I been ghosting you for a while lol
I can see the basics of a knitting machine. Add a ringvwith hooks to hold the thread and something to lift the first circle of thread over the second to get a loop from each hook. For socks you can use a full ring.of hooks.
I like the idea of a garage factory. First develop molding techniques with 3d printed molds. For concrete, rubber, candy, polyester aluminium or clay. Stamping sheet metal.. Rolling sheet metal, And then improve it, automate it. Just like some kind of Benjamin Franklin printing press.. Based upon 3d printed molds and gears.. First making one stamp per 10 minutes, but automate it, improve it to a rhythm of one stamp per 5 seconds or so. Doing 12 flowerpots per minute.. 80 per hour.. If one pot is a dollar, you make 80 dollars an hour. Or 1000 in a 12 hour workday. As a tool for inventors. For small series production.. But also for living in a remote place on the planet. A simple press with 3d printed molds for rooftiles, bricks, flower pots, that a farmer on a remote island can put in his garage.
I too like 'old fashioned' proper machines i.e. hand powered. Turn the machine and the article (socket extension post) through 90 deg. and the handle would assume an ergonomic orientation. Simples :)
Hi Robert, have you considered trying PCB stator in your generators? It seems these PCB coils are far more efficient and make it possible to achieve higher flux density.
Hi Robert, instead of a handle or motor could you put two or three adjustable legs with wheels, that are turned by the material you are wrapping as you move it up or down and make one (or more) of them drive it?
@@ThinkingandTinkering There is. But it's not the same as far as I know. Noun: cabel m (plural cabels) (Languedoc) a single headhair, one of the many strands of hair that covers the head.
Hi Robert, I admire your cheerful attitude considering your recent loss. I’m just over 16 months into that journey and really wish I could follow your example. I also think I know you have really sad moments and thoughts, but to watch you with a smile, again something I have yet to get to grips with, is an inspiration. Keep smiling and making great video’s for as long as you can. Take care, Stefan.
Hiya Stefan - i can hold it together for a video but the pain is great I understand where you are coming from i really do
Hi Robert, I agree with the pain. I try to keep busy most of the time, but mostly I think what is the point. It’s a sad club we belong to. The only way to feel empathy truly is to experience it. My family haven’t got a clue how badly I feel most of the time. The only good, if you can call it good, is my sweetheart hasn’t got to feel the pain we do being left without them. I hope you heal quicker than me , but I’m not sure if you will. Every day is Groundhog Day. I’m still glad you’re making the videos that I’ve always watched. All the best Stefan.
Modified one once for wrapping coils of wire torroidally. That was an interesting design assignment.
I am glad you liked it mate
Hi Rob, love the picture of Patti. Another great Vid, thanks mate.
cheers mate - it's nice to have her there watching over me - glad you liked the vid
Thank you for the video, the joy you found in telling about your make brought joy to my day. My condolences on the loss of your Patti, I am glad you've found some joy with inventing! Peace.
I absolutely love your pure joy every time one of your creations works!
Thank you! Cheers!
Hey Rob, easy suggestion for the drive motor. Make the drive gear with a hex bit to attach an electric drill. It might not be as elegant, but everyone has a drill and it's usually charged.
Might also make the handle attachable to the drill for increased stability
Thanks Robert. Grew up from 1974, Holidays at my parents caravan every school holiday in Reculver. You connect my past and my love for Science and Engineering! Thank you!
lol that is awesome mate - reculver is a nice place and cheers
Excellent! A great (and useful) project. Hopefully we’ll see the motorized one demonstrated in the future.
i am kind of hoping someone takes up the gauntlet on that one mate
@@ThinkingandTinkering A challenge! I’ll see if we can make a go at it.
Hi Robert,
If you make the tape holder axis adjustable (tilt along the circumference) then you can set it to the width of the tape you are using so that it spools the tape onto the shaft flat. It would also make it self advancing for the most part. Cool build!
Thank you for the great videos and all the best from California! 🧡
i like those ideas mate - thanks for sharing - cheers
the volume on the intro is spot on🤙🏻💯
awesome - cheers mate
I love the pure joy you show with your creation! Thinking and tinkering is so wonderful!
Thank you so much!
The device you designed seems almost perfect to sit on top of a battery-operated drill with a 90-degree connector on it driving that big gear.
i agree mate that would be a cool addition
Stefan, I love you man. You made me smile. First thing in the morning no less. That in itself is an amazing accomplishment. Thank you for this excellent video. Please keep making content. Please keep your head up. That smile is great. Hoping to see more from you!
@ 8:49 'It's awesome'. It is good to another creative type having fun with creativity. Keep on keeping on friend.
lol - cheers mate
Something like this would work for wrapping toroidal inductors. Toroidal winders usually use a metal split ring which is pulled apart and linked with the toroidal core (like linking rings), then loaded with wire in an external groove on the outside of the ring. Once loaded, the end of the wire is taped down and a mechanism drives the ring toroidally (unwinding the wire off the ring and onto the core) while advancing the core at a rate of 1 wire thickness per turn. Once you get a layer down, the remaining wire is taped down and cut off, and the split ring unlinked. You probably couldn't replace the metal split ring, but the rest of the mechanism should be fine. Nice for high frequency power supply builds.
nice one mate - i am goin gto have to have a think about that - see what we can do! cheers
It's a marvelous mad mechanism.
It's cool to have a tool that does one job perfectly. I could see using that to tie up wires and hoses.
The same principle can be used to wrap toroidal coils. Put a blade on the inside it could strip cables or cut pipes. In a way it could even work as the exact opposite of a lathe.
all good ideas mate thanks for sharing
A wrapper like this is especially handy when wrapping something flexible, like a wiring loom.
That's a really interesting tool, and I appreciate that, I actually had no idea TinkerCAD was so simple for gear building. I've seen you do it before but it just never connected in my mind I suppose. I was dreading an upcoming design but I think you may have reduced my headache significantly, what a lovely gift for a Saturday afternoon!
I am sincerely glad it was helpful mate
Robert, such an interesting contraption. :) Thank you for sharing. It will be easy to use a drill rather than the handle without any mods.
Made me smile hearing your laugh
lol - cheers mate
Hi Robert great vid as usual in the past if I needed an internal gear I just extracted an external gear from a bigger disk not perfect I know but it works suprisingly well and the gears seem to mesh just as well as normal
that's a good suggestion mate thanks for sharing
Sorry for your loss good to see you back coming up with more useful ideas
cheers mate andd thank you for taking the time to say that
@@ThinkingandTinkering you're more than welcome cause your video as so informative that I've seen
Early 🎉 Thank you so much Robert, I understand much more about 3D printing now!!
Okay, I'll be watching and listening now!!
Just a bit - i am a bit all over the place at the moment! You are a star Andrea
I can think of a lot of uses with some caveats of course for this device. Thinking a linear drive to move it in a smooth linear motion and you have a nice large gauge wire wrapper. Probably need to bulk it up a bit though, but very doable. Hmm....liking this quite a bit Robert. Thanks for the video! Keep them coming!
I like that idea mate - get designing and let me see it!
That's Awesome Robert!! 😎👍
I'd love to have a go at making that gear system,
Thank you very much again Robert!!😊❤
Go for it Andrea - you know you can!
Back in the 1970's I worked at the phone company and we used a tool which probably was of a similar design on the inside. It was for wrapping a wire around a strand of wire and the 100 pair telephone cable between 2 telephone poles. It was actually pretty cool to work with.
nice share mate - cheers
Still commonly used around my neighborhood, not for 100-pair though. Once on the overhead wire bundle, they walk it down the street from ground level like a flying dog.
I used to work for a company that had a large stationary toroidal winder for wrapping crepe paper around rings. I had not seen a hand-held wrapper but can see how it would be useful.
i am thinking of adapting it for coil winding too
I'm so glad youre back!
Awesome indeed!! Thanks Robert 😁😁
cheers mate
I've wanted to make one of these for awhile. As always, awesome video and instruction!
Thank you! Cheers!
Brilliant Robert although I would have gone straight to the motor driven option 😂
Your passion for creating with engineering particularly with 3D design and printing is obvious, have you ever considered doing workshops with maybe teenagers to share that passion and perhaps kick start careers in design and engineering?
I am hoping to encourage folks to design their own motor option mate and i should think about workshops i really should - cheers
@@ThinkingandTinkering I think you would do great job in person of inspiring young people in a workshop environment
Awesome, I think I might give tinker cad a go now. Been putting it off for ages but it just seems so easy compared to SU.
Nice new intro too, or have I been ghosting you for a while lol
lol - tinkercad is pretty simple to get hold of and you can do some surprising things with it
I appreciate the hand crank, however, I think this tool is the most useful motorized. It would take just as long wrapping by hand as using the crank.
i agree - so add a motor and let's see your design - cheers
A yarn ball roller! I use it for paracord and wire!
nice!
looks like it could be used for winding toriod transformers
for sure!
please do a whole series about such machines
I was thinking about it mate
I can see the basics of a knitting machine. Add a ringvwith hooks to hold the thread and something to lift the first circle of thread over the second to get a loop from each hook. For socks you can use a full ring.of hooks.
nice idea mate - go for it
What a great tool to wrap an antenna or coil. On another subject what’s up with mayonnaise and fusion.
mayonnaise and fusion? i don't understand mate
Thank you Robert, great work
cheers mate
I like the idea of a garage factory. First develop molding techniques with 3d printed molds. For concrete, rubber, candy, polyester aluminium or clay. Stamping sheet metal.. Rolling sheet metal,
And then improve it, automate it. Just like some kind of Benjamin Franklin printing press.. Based upon 3d printed molds and gears..
First making one stamp per 10 minutes, but automate it, improve it to a rhythm of one stamp per 5 seconds or so. Doing 12 flowerpots per minute.. 80 per hour.. If one pot is a dollar, you make 80 dollars an hour. Or 1000 in a 12 hour workday.
As a tool for inventors. For small series production..
But also for living in a remote place on the planet. A simple press with 3d printed molds for rooftiles, bricks, flower pots, that a farmer on a remote island can put in his garage.
i like that idera too mate - a lot!
Brilliant and inspirational!
cheers mate
I too like 'old fashioned' proper machines i.e. hand powered. Turn the machine and the article (socket extension post) through 90 deg. and the handle would assume an ergonomic orientation. Simples :)
cheers mate
squire, you are a wizard of note. many thanks for this [another] wonderful video😁🙏
Nice job! You could have made the cog a cutaway piece and put a bigger cylinder around it to make the internal gear.
to be honest mate if you do that it pinches the gears unless you leave a lot of slack
Hi Robert, have you considered trying PCB stator in your generators? It seems these PCB coils are far more efficient and make it possible to achieve higher flux density.
Cheers 👍💪✌
right back at you mate
I'm always impressed by your videos Robert. Good job on your new gadget.
Thank you very much!
Yeah, no bearings, no chain; necessary and sufficient construction. When you need it, just print it 🙂
you could add an attachment point and run it from a hand held drill
Hi Robert, instead of a handle or motor could you put two or three adjustable legs with wheels, that are turned by the material you are wrapping as you move it up or down and make one (or more) of them drive it?
i don't really know mate - but that's a good reason to try it in my mind!
I think this is great. But I don't think I will ever need one since my hands still work reasonably well. Although my mind wonders sometimes 😂.😂😂
lol - how about adapting it to be a coil winder?
this needs a coiling equivalent for making motors and stuff
it does indeed!
For those, who want to see it in action, jump to 9:40
Brilliant 😊👍
Thank you! Cheers!
❤️🔥❤️🔥
cheers mate
Very cool!!
cheers mate
👏
I thought the design would make a dandy armature winder.
it would mate!
My condolences!
Superb
Thank you! Cheers!
How to make supercapacitor as battery pack for ev 8kw motor
done it
😊
cheers mate
caon one have maglev planetgears. i saw a video but couldnt understand it at all :(
yes and i have done a couple of vids on that
@@ThinkingandTinkeringyes but those were planetgears not magnetic planet gears which i could'nt know exist!
Coil maker for generators.
that is a cool suggestion
00:07 There's a spelling mistake *cable.
it's not a spelling mistake there are two ways to spell cabel/cable
@@ThinkingandTinkering There is. But it's not the same as far as I know. Noun: cabel m (plural cabels)
(Languedoc) a single headhair, one of the many strands of hair that covers the head.
Lol this is madness 😄
lol
I’d rather use it for DIY toroidal cores lol
go for it
Cable not Cabel
Always great videos! You make this look so easy and fun (although I know there’s a lot to this).
Glad you enjoyed it!