Reloading Boss Bobbin Help

[rickeyfro]

Hope I dont come across as an idiot but I just bought a Tipmann Bass and some accessories and not exactly clear on how to use the bobbin winder, do you just mount it on the bench and take the thread of the sewing thread spool? Is there a certain position you mount it? Alignment wise.

[Randy Cornelius]

  rickeyfro said:

Hope I dont come across as an idiot but I just bought a Tipmann Bass and some accessories and not exactly clear on how to use the bobbin winder, do you just mount it on the bench and take the thread of the sewing thread spool? Is there a certain position you mount it? Alignment wise.

Mine came with a bobbin winder that you chuck in a drill motor. YOu just slip the empty bobbin on the end, put thread through one of the little holes in the bobbin and start winding with the drill.

RC

[bruce johnson]

Ricky, Post a picture of what you have now.

Randy,

That is the same kind of bobbin winder I got when I got a Boss back in the day. It went with the Boss when I sold it. After that I took the shaft out of a bobbin winder that rubs up against the belt on a motor machine. I chuck that into the drill and use it like the one that came on the Boss. It goes fast, and I get more even and consistant bobbins than I got with the mounted winders.

[Randy Cornelius]

Even after I got my Artisen I found that the bobbin were about the same and I still wind the bobbins with the Boss winder on a drill motor. Just seems to work better.

  bruce johnson said:

Ricky, Post a picture of what you have now.

Randy,

That is the same kind of bobbin winder I got when I got a Boss back in the day. It went with the Boss when I sold it. After that I took the shaft out of a bobbin winder that rubs up against the belt on a motor machine. I chuck that into the drill and use it like the one that came on the Boss. It goes fast, and I get more even and consistant bobbins than I got with the mounted winders.

[rickeyfro]

Left my camera at work, but what it is is abot 9 or 10 inches high, a flange mounting base w/a post coming up and two round collars welded to it with bronze bushings in them, the lower one has a shaft mounted crank wheel like a meat grinder and the top one has a spindle to mount the bobbin on, they are connected with a big rubber o ring

[BruceGibson]

  rickeyfro said:

Left my camera at work, but what it is is abot 9 or 10 inches high, a flange mounting base w/a post coming up and two round collars welded to it with bronze bushings in them, the lower one has a shaft mounted crank wheel like a meat grinder and the top one has a spindle to mount the bobbin on, they are connected with a big rubber o ring

I've got the same one. You put the bobbin on the spindle with the spring and little cotter pin. Mine's mounted on my bench. When I use it, I put the thread spool on the floor, and feed the thread through my fingers as I turn the "crank."

[Randy Cornelius]

That sounds complicated, I will stick to my spindle that goes on the drill motor!

Randy

[BruceGibson]

  Randy Cornelius said:

That sounds complicated, I will stick to my spindle that goes on the drill motor!

Randy

You're right! The drill version's faster, and easier to control. The bench-mounted deal works, but it's an acquired taste. It'll also cut the heck out of you if you brush past it without watching. Of course, I own one, so I have to use it, right?