problem learning how to use an insta coiler

[Andrew and Rebeca Anderson]

Oops,
Like he said.  Should have got the tool out.

Andrew
At 05:20 PM 3/29/2006, you wrote:
>Hi, all.
>
>I think there's a bit of confusion here. As you turn the pin 
>clockwise to make the coil, the coil winds down the pin, from the 
>becket, toward the plate or pinblock. The coiler keeps the coil from 
>spiraling down to the plate or pinblock, or from crossing up and 
>over coils that are already on the pin, but it does _not_ lift up 
>the windings above each loop.
>
>You have to start with the tool wound _out_, that is to say, _up_, 
>that is to say, _counterclockwise_. The thread on the tool causes 
>the guide slot on the tool to guide the wire down the pin at the 
>rate of one wire-diameter per clockwise revolution, no more and no less.
>
>It sounds like you've been starting with the tool at the end of its 
>travel, instead of at the beginning. No wonder it's hard to turn. 
>Does that help?
>
>-Mark Schecter
>
>
>Andrew and Rebeca Anderson wrote:
>>As you wind the hook hole is lifted up continuing the winding above 
>>each loop.  When you wind, you should be winding the tuning pin 
>>down into the block and the reverse thread on the coiler should be 
>>lifting the coiler.  If the coiler is already fully lifted you will 
>>not be able to turn it any more which is why you rewind it to the 
>>starting position each time before starting.