Chris's Spinning Wheel Howto's

Keep Spinning - Smooth Running
So, You've just achieved a spinning wheel rescue. All the parts are there but it isn't exactly racey.

From the top.......Put the wheel on newspaper - not on your new carpet!

Take off the flyer and bobbin. Do all the bobbins spin freely on the flyer axle? If all the bobbins stick, clean up the flyer axle. If there's any rust, take some wire wool or wet and dry sandpaper to it, until the bobbins will purr around. Add a bit of oil (3 in 1, sewing machine or light engine oil).

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(if only one of the bobbins sticks, apply a little wet and dry to the bobbin bearing - be careful, if you over do this, you'll have a noisy bobbin!)

 

How to....

  
Reassemble the flyer, and clean and oil the flyer bearings. These may be leather in old or repro. wheels or nylon (PTFE) in modern wheels. Nylon doesn't need oil, but the rotating surfaces do need to be cleaned

or dust and general grot from the fibre you're spinning will form a very efficient grinding paste and wear your wheel away.

Now, down to the bottom. The treadle (right) shouldn't need much attention, but a clean and a few drops of oil wouldn't go amiss down here. While down there, you can also check out the connection between the treadle and the footman - left. (This is a flexible something eg. a piece of braid, leather thong or nylon connector). Occasionally the footman may be completely replaced by a cord.Finally a drop of oil on the bearing where the footman attaches to the crank, (again if it's nylon - run some oil through to clean it, then wipe it dry).
Now back to the main wheel. It should be running on bearing points on a pair of uprights. The wheel should be solidly fixed to its axle, and turn easily and run true (If it doesn't run true, that's serious maintenance time.. another story). The wheel axle may just rest on wood, or have leather, brass or nylon contact points or even sealed bearings. Wood on wood, probably needs a little grease, but again, the most important thing is to make sure that the axle isn't turning on a grease/grit grinding paste. Clean and replace the grease if it's easy to get at, otherwise use oil which will stand a chance of flushing the grit out. Use oil for wood/metal contacts and if it's metal/nylon make sure it's clean, and maybe give them a wipe with a greasy rag.

And finally what about the spinner!
After a number of years, spinners may find themselves a bit stiff with joints and bearings getting distinctly rusty.
Some ideas... Find the best position you can, try different seats, Dont' spin for to long at a time, get up and stretch, practice spinning with either hand, so that you change position from time to time, change the foot you're treadling with or use both, try fish oil (even if I didn't benefit, the regular dose of cod liver oil that I was given when young, gave fine glossy fur....to the cat that helped me eat it!)

Page Updated Jan 2003. Caj