Greg, Have used this design for years. Copied the pics from the web. Hope you can see them. Self explanatory. Simple to build. Rod,window opener, wood. Make the wood bars about 3" long for small coils. Hook end of wire into slot and rotate. I do have the left end with a slot to remove the coil off of the jig. Once the wood wears out just rebuild with more scrap wood. Not all that pretty but functional I refill from my large spools and reload the small cans. For the fine ga wire I still have and reload some of the old Ford spools. They may have been old laundry clothes line spools but I don't know for sure. Hope this helps Gerry C --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: grahampianos at yahoo.com To: pianotech at ptg.org Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 11:29:48 -0700 Subject: [pianotech] Refilling 1/3 pound string spools Does anyone refill their 1/3 pound string spools for field repairs from larger coils? Can you share some tips to avoid ending up with a steel bird nest? Any cool jigs? I love cool jigs. Thanks, Greg Graham -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090706/44c8001c/attachment-0001.htm> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: wirejig1.jpg Type: image/pjpeg Size: 38701 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090706/44c8001c/attachment-0002.bin> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: wirejig2.jpg Type: image/pjpeg Size: 34485 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/pianotech.php/attachments/20090706/44c8001c/attachment-0003.bin>
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