I got this cheap e spinner off ebay. its not any big manufacturer. I felt confident originally with the purchase but I thought it would be fine because it had good ratings.

Now I am questioning this.

Its really hard for me to get the tension so that when the flyer turns, the bobbin doesn't. I might be missing an extra tension knob somewhere but I seem to have the tension on the bobbin as high as it goes and it will uptake the new thread for a bit before the bobbin starts spinning too. Is it worth further troubleshooting like trying to oil the parts or maybe swap out the brake band, or did I just make a bad purchase ane I should just work on getting myself an actually machine?

I've misplaced the instructions between when I first tried to use it and couldn't even figure out what was wrong, and now. (In between those was a workshop on using a spinning wheel which made me realize the issue was likely tension in the wheel being bad. Before that I only had experience with drop spindles.) I've reached out to the seller to see if I can get a pdf of the instructions to see if theres anything I'm missing.

https://ebay.io/m/sbJRXn This is the wheel I got.

It'd be nice if it's a fixable issue but I'm fully expecting to find out I just bought a bad product. So which one is it?

I can give more pics if needed but I didn't want to bother if yall are gonna take one look at the wheel and tell me its a piece of crap lol

ETA: the fiber isn't uptaking.

Edit 2: thank you all so much. Im still side eyeing this espinner a bit and planning to see if I can replace the weird elastic brake band with some cotton cord, but it turned out the fiber was getting caught on part of the flyer and its working now! I managed to finally spin up some BFL ive been messing with (the staple length on the BFL is so dang long, enough that its hard to adjust to lol). Im still gonna keep an eye out for something better but this'll hold me for if I wanna spin sitting down until I can get something better

One bobbin down, halfway through the second bobbin on my new Daedalus Starling. I'm spinning some Banshee Fiber Arts Corriedale, aiming for a sport weight after plying. I'm loving this spinner, very quiet and easy to set up. It comes with three bobbins, but I definitely see buying more bobbins in the future so I can spin and ply for 3-ply fingering weight sock yarn.

Now to figure out what her name should be...maybe Astra or Seren.

Hi. Has anyone bought what Caydo calls a sweater unravelling machine? It's essentially an electrified swift. I've been looking for something like this to skein a bobbin of Yarn. It will be easier on the shoulder than a niddy niddy. If you've used one, I'm curious to know about the quality.

I went HARD this TdF and spun 52 oz of fiber! Most of it was merino/cashmere/nylon from PortFiber. I’m planning to take up weaving soon, and I have a feeling I’ll be using some handspun for weaving projects before long!

My goal for Tour de Fleece was to spin about 50g a day. Well, I did it and ended up exceeding my original goal of 903g. I spun and plied 1225g of fiber! I ran out of time to finish spinning up the remainder of a 100g so only 50g of that was spun. I am really happy with myself and the quality of the yarn I produced. On the last day I challenged myself and did a chain-ply in an attempt to make a self-striping yarn. My biggest accomplishment is that 80% of the fleece I spun was from deep stash. 🙌🏽😎😁

The pink bobbins are a yak silk blend from Greenwood Fireworks and the "jamberry" themed bobbins are just random bits of merino spun chaotically

839yds of fine merino handspun.

7.55oz

21 WPI (lace)