Hello Jenny and everyone This double-drive style of wheel uses the principle of being able to lean the mother-of-all part away from or towards the wheel to tension the drive band. I have a wheel of this style, delightful for spinning yarns fine enough for *lace.*
I wonder if the assembly has been 'made stuck' by a lot of varnish after the fact. To make the wheel into a decoration? Possibly some of the hardware has been used to fasten parts of it in place, so that it won't move back and forth, now that the drive band isn't there to hold it upright. If you like send me a photo of underneath the m-o-a and we can sort something out off list. On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Jenny Brandis <[email protected]> wrote: > Today a spinning wheel took up residence in my lounge room and it has me > stuck. > > -- Bev in Shirley BC, near Sooke on beautiful Vancouver Island, west coast of Canada - To unsubscribe send email to [email protected] containing the line: unsubscribe lace [email protected]. For help, write to [email protected]. Photo site: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lacemaker/sets/
