This is the very old Haldane wheel that I am trying to teach myself to spin on. My main problem has been with the Scottish tension - in fact it did not even have a spring or wire and I was trying to use it. I managed to spin something before I realised there was anything wrong.......I have my eye on an Ashford Country wheel as I know I want to spin chunky, art yarns.
The cat in the background is Pookie.
I have to go and bid on something now. I Will add to this later.
Lovely wheel, the type of tension is called double drive, you don't need a sping or wire, one loop of the cable fits in the groove of the bobbin the other fits into the groove of the whorl.
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Nina
this wheel can be used as double drive or single drive with scotch tension, whilst a spring's the proper way to set this up a couple of inches of elastic on the end of the friction band will work fine short term, these are great wheels, don't give up on it!
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