On 27-jan-04, at 21:32, Paul Marriner wrote:
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Chris, pulling out enough thread to prevent full wind-up can be
irritating at times. Better just to remember to clip your hackle pliers
to the thread before cutting.
Yeah, yeah. I'll rethread every so often, thank you ;-)
One can love or hate Norm's vise, but the automatic bobbin is essential if you want to tie on a true rotary.
True. Very true.
I too wish Norm would come up with an automatic that would take regular thread spools (difficult design task); I detest rewinding thread bobbins.
That is a drawback. FYI there IS such a thing as an auto-rewinding bobbin taking ordinary spools. It is a recent 'invention', in that the patent explicitly mentions the NorBlock bobbin, and its alleged drawback of a proprietary spool that needs to be filled, as well as one or two older similar inventions. I have no idea whether it is actually in production, but if you check a patent web site (such as www.depatisnet.de), you should be able to find it...
cheers
henk
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