Well, I figured out how to wind some spools so I can rewind them and twist them together.

I went for about 500 turns on each of them, but I have a sneaking suspicion that Its going to be a lot less when I finally wind them together.

We'll see.

Any way, as far as that goes, I figured I would also share some of the information I found on some things, such as creating a basic counter..

www.instructables.com/ low cost counter

This uses a calculator. It did work, but about half way through my calculator reset for some reason, I'm not sure why. I was having problems making up a decent contract that would activate on every rotation.



Currently I'm working on the next part, creating a twisting machine that can twist the wire as it advances the spool.



This is based on a design I've seen in the bedini sg yahoo group. I claim no rights to the initial idea.

A belt would go around the pulleys. The frame rotates while one pulley is stationary, attached to a base of some sort. The belt would advance the spool based on the ratio between the two pulleys. Now if I can just figure out how to pan the wire back and forth on the spool evenly...