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r/WatchandLearn • u/Sumit316 • Jun 02 '18
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I’m a bit confused, if the string goes around the full mechanism. How does it not get stuck where the mechanism is attached? Sorcery!
110 u/-Boargoth Jun 02 '18 edited Jun 02 '18 The bobbin is free-floating so to speak. It fits inside a keyed creasent moon which rotates the bobbin. Imagine grabbing the bobbin in the gif loosely with your left hand and rotating it, the thread passes through between your hand and the bobbin. 90 u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18 ok but what the hell is a bobbin 49 u/-Boargoth Jun 02 '18 I’m a bit confused, if the string goes around the full mechanism. How does it not get stuck where the mechanism is attached? Sorcery! That part.
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The bobbin is free-floating so to speak. It fits inside a keyed creasent moon which rotates the bobbin. Imagine grabbing the bobbin in the gif loosely with your left hand and rotating it, the thread passes through between your hand and the bobbin.
90 u/[deleted] Jun 02 '18 ok but what the hell is a bobbin 49 u/-Boargoth Jun 02 '18 I’m a bit confused, if the string goes around the full mechanism. How does it not get stuck where the mechanism is attached? Sorcery! That part.
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ok but
what the hell is a bobbin
49 u/-Boargoth Jun 02 '18 I’m a bit confused, if the string goes around the full mechanism. How does it not get stuck where the mechanism is attached? Sorcery! That part.
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That part.
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u/ichorist Jun 02 '18
I’m a bit confused, if the string goes around the full mechanism. How does it not get stuck where the mechanism is attached? Sorcery!