If anyone can date this wheel, I would really appreciate it!! I would love to know how old this baby is.
This post is for anyone out there with an "older" Louet S10 single treadle wheel. I wanted to update mine with all the newer parts out there, but I could find no pictures of how to do this with my dinosaur of a wheel. So...here we go
This is what my wheel looked like before I started. Big bulky washers holding the wheel to the back post. I also had to make a spacer for the footman to wheel connection because it wouldn't clear the center bolt on the wheel. Look here:
With some AWESOME help and mad dash emails from Adrian Bizilia at Hello Yarn, I got the main bolt assembly in correctly to take advantage of the bearings in the back post that were covered up by bigasshonkin washers. So now the wheel spins effortlessly. Next comes the footman bearing... booger that it was!!! This is the part you get:
This is how it's supposed to go in. Flat bearing is on the front of the wheel with a white spacer between the bearing and the wheel, then a washer and nut on the back. This presented a problem for me because, as you can see I have this footman with a huge hole in it!! I explained to Adrian, that is a non-issue, I can either plug that hole with a dowl and sand flush, or I can just make a new footman. I opted for the second option and carefully traced my footman on a piece of stock oak we had in the woodshop. I used the belt sander to shape it to the same size as my old footman, but with no huge gaping hole!! Presto change-o: My new footman!!
Now (whew!) That's all done. Now there is one more part I 'm waiting on. It's the footman connector. It's the little cup part that snaps on to that bearing and then I have to drill a teeny tiny hole in my footman to connect it to the little cup and I have updated my dinosaur into the year 2009!!! Yippee!! Then I can start spinning some of that alpaca and llama....
wait.. maybe I need to talk to Adrian about a carder...
let's see what my next check looks like and go from there!!
