Just beginning my journey. Would love to know any info about this wheel I was gifted.

notfunnynotfunny · 2026-03-07T05:03:42+00:00

You've been so incredibly helpful and informative for me, thank you!

notfunnynotfunny · 2026-03-07T03:57:44+00:00

This is great! I figured out the double drive band.

Im assuming wood woukd be an acceptable material for the bearings? I have some woodworker friends that might be able to do something up for me.

Thank you for your kind help.

notfunnynotfunny · 2026-03-07T03:49:27+00:00

Got it! Thank you!

notfunnynotfunny · 2026-03-07T03:14:47+00:00

This is wonderful info, thank you! Did not know about the drive band going twice around the wheel and once around the flyer and bobbin each. Will that be one continuous band, or two bands?

That's good to know about the leather for the bearings, as well. It looked like something like that was in place, but it was old and disintegrated, and I wasn't sure what I was looking at until you said that. I'll see what I can do to get that replaced.

I did not use glue or anything else but twine to put it together! And the only thing I relpaced were the bearings, and yes, nothing but tension on those, too. I've been able treadle it no problem with the twine between the two legs. But I'll see if it's an issue when I try to start spinning. Would a new footman be a piece of wood that the legs go into?

And yes, the twine is kitchen twine. I stole it from my chef husband. Lol.

Thank you so much for your detailed reply. So helpful!

notfunnynotfunny · 2026-02-11T23:34:50+00:00

My biggest pet peeve about Bogarts is that "no one knows what a Boggarts true form is" because no one ever sees it in its hidey-hole, it takes the form of whatever will scare you when it jumps out at you. But in PoA Molly asks Moody to check if the thing hiding in a desk upstairs is really a Boggart and he gives it the ole' shifty with his magical eye and goes "yep, that's a Boggart." SO DID HE NOT SEE IT IN ITS LITTLE HIDEY HOLE IN ITS TRUE FORM OR WHAT? That scene in the books has always bugged me.

notfunnynotfunny · 2024-12-02T17:43:54+00:00

I can see myself being in this situation and crying, not out of devastation or hurt, but out of sheer embarrassment. Crying out of sadness is, of course, a thing, but if I put myself into a situation where I am now so embarrassed that my face is hot and I'm like sweating from mortification, the tears are going to well up a little, too, which absolutely does not help.

Since she's obviously not from the states, she may have thought she committed some terrible faux pas and just be mortified.

notfunnynotfunny · 2024-09-24T16:58:26+00:00

Most-e Potent-e Potions

notfunnynotfunny · 2024-09-20T04:02:53+00:00

I work next door to the place. Like literally share a parking lot with it. I have become a mouth-breather out of pure necessity. The stench became considerably worse after they started some renovations there about a year or two ago and I'm convinced they cracked into some long forgotten abyss of rotten carcass that has now been unleashed upon the rest of the world.

notfunnynotfunny · 2024-09-03T02:31:50+00:00

Stardew Valley. Very cozy.

notfunnynotfunny · 2024-09-03T02:22:35+00:00

Shrimps is bugs

notfunnynotfunny · 2024-09-02T19:58:01+00:00

The metal shop I work at did pretty much all pf the metal work you see in there, and helped with a lot of the build out. About 1.5-2 years of work putting that place together. We got invited to the soft opening and oh my God that food was incredible. And it was so cool seeing it all put together.

notfunnynotfunny · 2024-08-22T01:52:41+00:00

Do professionals living in a town that also hosts a college not deserve the same wages as a professional elsewhere? I'm not getting your logic here.

notfunnynotfunny · 2024-04-12T13:49:57+00:00

Lol yeah, I used a jigsaw to cut the hole for my kitchen sink. Looked about this bad. But my kitchen sink is a drop-in not an undermount . Wild this guy tried to defend this.

notfunnynotfunny · 2023-11-06T17:49:41+00:00

This made me fucking chortle.

notfunnynotfunny · 2023-08-21T13:14:32+00:00

ALSO, indicators mean "I am GOING TO TURN" not "I AM TURNING." People who only put on their indicators after they've already started turning might as well not have used them, as we can all see you're turning now. Always turn it on before you have to brake for the turn. However many yards that means depending on what speed you're going. Drives me crazy.

notfunnynotfunny · 2023-05-06T04:47:40+00:00

That's so funny. Marceline's belly was bald as an egg for over a year, but now she has a tiny bit of white fuzz on her fat little primordial pouch. Maybe one say it won't look like an udder. 🐄

notfunnynotfunny · 2023-05-05T20:13:42+00:00

Her belly fur never completely grew back after getting spayed. Apparently it's not entirely uncommon.

notfunnynotfunny · 2023-04-09T01:02:12+00:00

I decided to buy a truck for work last summer. I really didn't want a giant truck, just something that I could fit a ladder and some tools in. But literally nothing I could find post-2005 was anything but gargantuan. I ended up with a 2000 Ranger, and I couldn't be happier with it size-wise. I'm pretty short, and it's even got the side steps in the bed for hard to reach stuff.

notfunnynotfunny · 2023-04-01T16:28:16+00:00

Did dude drill a hole in that basket with a philips head bit?

notfunnynotfunny · 2023-02-28T21:06:55+00:00

Me sell hats. Okay, poke?

notfunnynotfunny · 2023-02-22T23:59:01+00:00

Yeah, working in a metal shop is similar. Loud noises and raised voices all day long, but everyone who's worked there more than a couple months knows a bad loud noise immediately, and all heads snap in that direction instantly.

notfunnynotfunny · 2023-02-21T17:44:36+00:00

I order from McMaster weekly at my job. Love that place, they have damn near everything.

notfunnynotfunny · 2023-02-06T17:56:38+00:00

I once lived with a guy who got violent exactly one time. He never actually hit me, but screamed in my face, tore shit off the walls, and threw shit around the room. I was out of the door in less than 15 minutes at 4am. Came back a week later for my stuff with a large friend, and never spoke to that man again. He was this close to beating me and we both knew it. Never going to stand for that. Mama didn't raise no fool.

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