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Ok, everyone...need some advice!! I got my new spinning wheel in the mail today wooohooo! Which means this newbie gets to practice more now that I have a wheel at home. But being a newbie with a new wheel means double the learning curve right! Here is the problem. While my mother was teaching me on her wheel she showed me how to spin on a length of yarn and then pull it back off the bobbin to let it ply onto itself to help test the amount of twist I was putting in the yarn. Well, new wheel, I get everything set up, or so I thought but now, I can’t get it to let me pull off a bit to test that spin. I’m sure it is user error here, and since I got the Aura it is totally different from my mother’s wheel so she isn’t sure how to help. just in case I've lost you, I made a little video…Can you check this out and give me some advice?? ANYONE, pretty please help! youtu.be/9SfFOMtEGmQ
Hi there!!
I have the Aura so I can help you out
The first thing you should do is adjust the height of the head. The head itself can be raised and lowered via the bolt up in front. You want to make sure that the tension is loose on the black drive band when the tension knob is set to no tension not so loose that it's going to fly off and when the tension knob is screwed in all the way the tension is tight. Currently you have a pretty light tension on the knob but the over all tension of the band is pretty snug. It should cooperate a lot better once you get the head lowered to reduce some of that extra tension.
As for testing your test you don't need to pull it off the bobbin. Usually there is at least a foot of spun single between me and the wheel and this can be let to twist on itself to see what your twist is like.
Please feel free to poke me any time for help on your Aura. I adore mine it's such a great wheel.
I have the Aura so I can help you out
The first thing you should do is adjust the height of the head. The head itself can be raised and lowered via the bolt up in front. You want to make sure that the tension is loose on the black drive band when the tension knob is set to no tension not so loose that it's going to fly off and when the tension knob is screwed in all the way the tension is tight. Currently you have a pretty light tension on the knob but the over all tension of the band is pretty snug. It should cooperate a lot better once you get the head lowered to reduce some of that extra tension.
As for testing your test you don't need to pull it off the bobbin. Usually there is at least a foot of spun single between me and the wheel and this can be let to twist on itself to see what your twist is like.
Please feel free to poke me any time for help on your Aura. I adore mine it's such a great wheel.
Thank you soooooo MUCH this helped! Thanks for the offer of future help as well!
I am a newbie to spinning with the spinning wheel myself and can help you only little. Of course once you really start spinning you normally don't test the amount of twist like that anymore. With a spinning wheel you get twist, because the flyer is spinning slower then the bobbin. Most spinning wheels have a mechanism to influence how much twist you get in the yarn. There are descriptions about the most common drive systems here: www.lahottee.info/E_ChoosingWh…
If your mothers wheel has a different system, it would of course behave differently.
According to this site www.majacraft.co.nz/wheels/aur… the aura is a double drive spinning wheel. (www.lahottee.info/E_DoubleDriv…
This means the twist is regulated by how tight the drive bands are. This could very well be your problem.
If your mothers wheel has a different system, it would of course behave differently.
According to this site www.majacraft.co.nz/wheels/aur… the aura is a double drive spinning wheel. (www.lahottee.info/E_DoubleDriv…
This means the twist is regulated by how tight the drive bands are. This could very well be your problem.
Thank you for trying to help. Unfortunately the drive on this wheel is a bit different, but I got it all worked out for now!
Thanks a ton for the group acceptance!! Can't wait to share what all we have spun and get to know everyone!!
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