I have one of these fiberology empty
spools and it looks like a great spool
for the spool racer but I needed two of
them. I want to put two in the back. So I
did have a second spool but it still had
filament on it so I grabbed an empty
spool wrapped it around the empty spool
and started winding my hand but I could
see this was gonna take forever. I went
through my junk drawer and I found these
two brackets from hanging electrical
fixtures. And I had a piece of threaded
rod that I cut off the axle of the spool
racer so I grabbed a couple nuts screwed
it on and I had to screw it on from one end because it was still cut and rough on
the other end. So I put a nut on and then
I slid the bracket in and put this
through the spool the empty spool then I
grabbed a second bracket put it on
the other side and another nut, and
tightened this by hand and then tried to
center it and then I got two wrenches
and tightened it up so it pinched the
spool between them.
Once I got those tightened up I lined up
the two spools then I got my drill and I
clamped the drill down on to the
threaded rod I just did this by hand and
then started spinning it. And I could
feel already this was working great I
just kept my hand on the back spool to
keep pressure and then I just spun it
until actually it spun through the nut.
So I needed to put a second nut on the
threaded rod to lock this thing from
unthreading itself. Once I got those two
nuts locked against each other
I put it back on the drill and went to
town. The only thing is it marked up my
bench I didn't realize the black spool
was making a ton of marks and I'm gonna
have to clean up but there was all
finished and I now have my second spool
for the spool racer. This episode is
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