How To Build A Sweater Unraveling Machine
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- Опубліковано 15 сер 2023
- Have you wondered how to build your very own sweater unraveling machine? This one was built for under $100 in parts - though it was not a straight-forward path to get there at all. I hope you share any of your own builds with me!
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As a mechanical engineer your process was very similar to what mine would be, but with way less duct tape.
Don't forget the zip ties!
Another engineer here! This makes my soul very happy 😍 I'm a mechanical engineer and I definitely overcomplicate everything the first time! I also love drafting so I'm quite happy to fiddle with overly complicated designs on paper until common sense kicks in and I make it simpler 😅
WHO says the arts and engineering are natural enemies? No one once they've seen this
I'm a chemist and my husband is an engineer. Your video is exactly like us on a friday night, ideas flow and we end up in the workshop until the early hours 😊
that sounds like a really lovely relationship
Parts of the swift flying off reminded me of this story....
A relative of mine would hold and annual pig roast. Now, he was an engineer and so were a lot of his friends, so they decided one year to attach a motor to the spit. Long story short--Pigs really can fly!
Love it! lol
Yes! I absolutely love it! The new version looks great. I love the fact that the swift is just secured rotationally by a nut, it's like a safety feature...if it jams up, the nut will just come loose rather than something breaking. Very clever.
I’m also an engineer and knitter/spinner/dyer. I have unraveled sweaters by hand and it is very tedious, but fun at the same time. I’m intrigued by your machine and will be thinking about it next time I buy a thrift sweater for unravelling. I have unravelled very thin yarns and then spun those thin yarns into something thicker and more useful for hand knitting. This way, I can customize colours and weight of the resulting yarns.
Having now watched the whole thing. I’m left wondering why you didn’t use you electric spinner in aid of an electric swift or ball winder? Maybe you tried this and there were issues.
Former high school theatre teacher here, so not a trained engineer. But I do have extensive construction and mechanical improv skills.
I'd add a triangular corner gusset to each right angle. That will counteract some of the downward pull on your cantilevered areas and keep the upright members square and in plane with each other. I also second the suggestion of making bushings for the places where the shaft passes through the support structure. You can do that the fancy way by getting some bearings or the less fancy way by finding some tubing slightly larger than the bolt you are using.
As someone with asthma I'm so happy to hear you stress how important your health is especially regarding your lungs. I'm very aware of a lot of things (especially while knitting with some very "hairy" yarn) regarding what I'm breathing in, but it's not just important for people with asthma or COPD or stuff like that!
Like so many others here, I am also an engineer. I started in Biomedical Engineering and finished in Software Engineering. I am currently going through the same iterative process with an adaptable winder which can be used to wind crochet thread that tatting thread as well as yarn, but not motorized. I have a tendency to build cardboard mockups for proof of concept before I order parts. The Stanwood Large Metal Ball Winder should be excellent for motorizing since it is designed to be more easily disassembled and spare parts are available. I'm excited to see what you come up with and I'm tempted to try my own version of the Unraveler. I live in a small town, though, and I have had zero luck finding sweaters to unravel at our local thrift shops.
Before I had a proper swift I build one out of k'nex, including having a winding option. I've also used it to wind embroidery floss on the little cards quickly. K'nex and lego make prototyping a lot easier
YAY! The engineering half of the channel name finally coming to call! ^_^ This was so fun! I love it when you play around with things like this, really reminds me of the ways that Rachel Maksy and Morgan Donner will just be like "I'mma learn how to do this thing cuz YAY MAKING THINGS!"
I am an engineer too, and I love the process of your thoughts! Thanks for shearing with us!
Another engineer here. I really enjoyed watching your process! An idea that popped into my head was maybe you could use lego for some of the parts? The reason I thought of this was because at uni we had to program a lego mindstorm wind turbine, so I figured it could work in a similar way but being driven rather than driving a motor. Also lego has lots of different gears, belts etc and would let you switch parts in and out really easily. Of course lego can get expensive
This whole process speaks to my engineering soul. I love the process and it mirrors how i would approach the problem. Thank you for documenting your missteps to help us be more efficient. And i have never heard a more MEng statement than I just added more twine to hold it. Much love and regards to you!
What a great idea! I might borrow one of my kid’s Lego motors to test this out at home.
I’m a Chem E too! My favorite thing about this video is seeing how many other Engineers who love fiber arts out there.
I come from the world of antiques. May I suggest looking at pictures of yarn reels not a swift. There are hand models that are very fast but can be stopped on a dime! Many designs out there from generations past. I do admire you trying to reinvent the wheel. Rethinking the past is a mistake.
I'm not an engineer but I do love these videos. I think it's your 'can-do' approach. You're very 'ok I'll make a [insert electric thingy machine]' ✅️ Or, I need a Victorian corset (!) so I'll just make one ✅️ On an antique sewing machine, with boning, and no one to help with the tricky fitting ✅️
How about you get Nutella on a treadmill, to bypass using electricity?? 🐕👩🔧💡
Fantastic video explainer! As a former weaver who also used to spin yarn I want to say you're on the right track with 3 (or more) ply yarns since you're a knitter. If you think about the cross-section of a 2 ply yarn, it's like a figure 8 or, better, two pennies touching. A flattish 2 ply yarn is fine for weavers, who are further interlacing the yarn in a 90 degree fashion in plain or twill weaves. Knitting and crochet create more complex interlacings that have more dimension than flat weaves. If you think of three pennies touching in the most efficient way, the overall cross-section of the yarn (not each ply) is triangular and begins to approach a circle. If even more plies are added, the yarn cross-section will become quite circular --- all the better for showing off knitting stitches.
I am just a Tinker Bell. So I will be making one! As soon as I finish taking apart this house I brought...n get my 4th rocket mass heater built in it so i will be toasty next winter while I unravel sweaters!.. But you have a new subscriber for this winter.
I love this! Since your last video I have unwound a sweater and it was completely magical and addictive. I just used my ball winder but this inspires me so much!
Love the perseverance, the creativity, and the end product. I always enjoy your videos, and will keep my eyes peeled (wow what a terrible phrase lol) for the next one.
Re: fibers in the air. I worked one college summer in a factory that made fiberglass yarn, rope, and woven fabrics. The air *shimmered*. Few workers wore any kind of breathing protection -- management assured us the fibers were too big to reach our lungs -- and even if you did, the glass fibers would get between the mask and your skin & your face would be bleeding by the end of shift. Management could also have, ya know, improved shop ventilation & changed the air scrubber filters once in awhile. But most of the workers were Kelly Girl temps. Temps were cheap, air filtration was expensive. 😐
I saw three people taken out of there by ambulance during that summer, and the place burned down twice due to unsafe storage of chemicals. So yay! that you wear a mask, and also hopefully you don't store 55gal drums of toluene next to a giant furnace.😬🔥🏭
Wow, that is really terrifying. I wonder how many of those people got lung cancer.
@@jessicav2031 Doubly depressing: most of the workers (some of whom were just kids like me) spent their lunch break sucking down as many cigarettes as they could during their 30 minutes of respite from the factory floor. It's like, "What -- you aren't dying fast enuf in there?"
It was just a tiny glimpse of what the great mills of Manchester and Boston must have been like, with barefoot 7 yr olds crawling under running machinery to remove cotton dust.😧 They were called 'mule scavengers'.
I *am* a mechanical engineer, and I think you did a great job! There's no way I could do as well at anything chemical engineering related!
I haven't watched this quite yet but if it's what I think it is yourre a goddess. I've been envisioning something like this for months, specifically for tee shirts and jersey in my mind though. Imma watch and see!!! :)
This is so neat!! I've shared it to my college's textile studio group and I hope someone there will find it useful!
what a fun build process. seeing your process of working through iterations and such is interesting.
i always overthink and overplan my builds and they never end up the way I planned it. now I just do a quick sketch and rapidly work through prototypes made things I've already got or the cheapest things I can. then work from there toward the final design.
Yes!!! More cool contraptions!!
Did she use an umbrella.....oh my god dude. 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺 i love you. ❤
You can also shrink heatshrink (shrinkable wire tubing) with a hairdryer! Takes a little longer but it's safer than a lighter. That's what I did when i built my 3D printer.
Just loved the bloopers! 😂
Wow! Chemical and software engineer. And best of all a knitter! Impressive ❤ thank you for sharing.
Girl. This is so rad.
I am NOT an engineer, and now I want to take a basic class in machine building (or something?) somehow
This makes me want to make one too! Also reminding me of that swift I wanted to make.
A sign to put up on your wall: “The simplest solution is almost always the best one.”
❤❤❤ Fellow female chemical engineer and knitter!
Well done on your creative design-it-yourself attitude and your persistence! I watched this video together with my husband who is a professor in mechanical engineering and also enjoyed your work. I recognize the engineering spirit, but I know not every engineer has this. My husband said 'but the good ones do!'
Ah! Thank you so much for sharing this with us!
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What an AMAZING project! 💪 Thanks so much for sharing! Watching videos like this reminds me that no matter the speciality, engineering is a mindset more than it is anything else! I’m a mechanical engineer and I honestly think 3d printers are perfect for projects like this. They are great for quickly producing a structure for a machine and also producing the required accuracy. The initial modelling and then the printing have a bit of a learning curve but there are so many resources nowadays that it’s really easy to be up and running in no time. Thanks again for sharing an amazing project!
Love this!
Yayyyy!! I loved your video about this before. This is an exciting BTS bit!
Another engineer here and I very much enjoyed watching this following along with your thought process.
Would the more powerful motor be more appropriate for the electric ball winder? And if so when you come to build that, could you swap the motors over so you get finer control on the speed of the swift?
I really enjoy watching your process and following you as you worked through it.
This video is just delightful
Not an engineer of any type so this is just an observation on your great work. Where your output shaft from the motor goes through the 2x4? Upright, you need two bearings one each side of the hole, this will greatly reduce your arms loaded with wool sashaying about as much and cut down some of the noise. Hope this helps, keep up the great work.
I love this!😃
You could go to the thrift and pick up any number of small motors you know. Like. An endless supply.
Love your perseverance!🌹
You are so cool! I will probably never bother to engineer something like this myself but God, it is always so interesting to watch you do stuff! Love your channel for that!
This project is so fun! I love learning about their process!
Genius! Can’t wait to see what the big project with many machines is ❤
I've been eye up an electric cone winder. I figure I can hand or machine knit off a cone. I'm looking forward to seeing your next KM video (I hope it's a sock machine)
ChemKnits Tutorials finally splurged a couple years back on the electric skein winder; I know she's shown it in action in a vlog, but I don't remember if there's a standalone vid about it. Her's can wind up to four strands at once, and this is handled by some form of clip on the peg portion that the yarn is wrapped around. Just a potential idea for how to enable your winder to manage 2 strands at a time 😊
This was so cool! I love how you improvised with the hand mixer lol
Ingenius.
This looks amazing. The friction between the wood and the spinning bolt will affect the motor so it might be a good idea to use a ball bearing to reduce that.
I'm not at all an engineer but still somehow am amazed by the content. But I believe I'm allowed to say that we need more "breathing directly into the microphone": Nutella is the cutest))
If you’re still looking to control this with your foot, a guitar expression pedal could be used for that! It basically is a pot/rheostat in pedal form.
Love your channel. I’m a software engineer who knits and does other various kinds of DIY, so this stuff is right up my alley!
Nice! My dad was also a chemical engineer and systems engineer.
I loved this video and has given me several ideas to adapt some hands free tools to help me along. While I don't necessarily need a swift or a winder, I have been toying with the idea to create a small spinner to spin dry for blocking knits (right now my OXO salad spinner works great for small projects but want a bigger solution). I also saw someone use their drill to turn their Addi kitting machine to make sock blanks for dying which I found really cool and want to try it out which led me to think about adapting my sock knitting machine to be hands free. I wouldn't mind somehow using bands and leveraging my spinning wheel to pedal power it.
Da mir die vielen Wörter in Englisch auf die Schnelle fehlen, antworte ich dir auf Deutsch, geht schneller 😊
Du bist so inspirierend und herzerfrischend. Wie du alles angehst und deine Liebe zu Nutella und allem was du tust, ist so direkt sicht- und fühlbar. Danke dafür.
Ich habe in den letzten 2 Wochen fast alle deine Videos angeschaut.
Letzten Samstag habe ich eine Jacke im Brockenhaus (thriftstore) gekauft, um an das Garn zu kommen😅. Und, ich habe ein 40-jähriges Strickbuch in meiner "Bibliothek" gestern (nach Scheidung /Umzug) wieder gefunden. Einiges könnte dich vielleicht interessieren...
This is such a great idea. Congratulations. Just as a suggestion, what do you think about adding a second swift at 90 degree offset to the first on the same shaft for your 2 yarn sweaters? Well maybe not 90 degrees, but so the arms of the swifts are offset. This will make the 2 strands unravel separately. Also, make your frame 2 sided with a longer shaft that goes through both sides of the frame with the Swifts between. It will be more stable.
this rekindled my wish for a ball winder because my life is basically spent 20% crocheting and 80% frogging it back into a ball (i love adapting patterns and by that i mean i work with the yarn i have and not necessarily the yarn the pattern asks for and then the gauge is way off and i have to adapt the whole thing so it's still the size it should be)
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You are are so amazing. Well you know what the old saying is. Necessity is the mother of invention 😊❤
Or the military version: “Necessity is a Mother…”
I'm not an engineer and this still fascinated me! I have some ideas, but of course, not an engineer, so I have no clue if they're viable, haha.
The wood pegs could be made removeable with a screw and nut installed into the bottom of each wooden peg, if the weight of the bolts is too heavy. Since you don't need to hold the machine at 90* now, you could explore putting it horizontal again (because the 90* purpose was for you to hold it up more easily with the drill). It could be more stable that way too, with a wider support for the base; I saw it wobbling a little bit. The motor then wouldn't be supporting the weight at all and would just be a rotating rod through the support. I'm not sure if the size of the windmill arms makes a difference, so I wondered why they were so wide and long. Maybe you'd be able to have a two-directional or two-speed windmill as well with your plastic skein winder that you can stack on top for any dual-strand sweaters, to take the manual step out with your ball winder!
I misheard what you said and thought you said nose bleeding helps your lungs😂 I was really confused am not a native english speaker. This is such a cool project❤❤
Another thing to consider is that crocheting with S-plied yarn tends to split the strands. I'm not sure which way is better for yarn, it might depend which way you YO?
Hi! I’m trying to build myself an electric hank winder and your video has been THE most useful resource I have found, so thank you so, so much! I was wondering if the bolt that supports the swift is supported by the front arm. If so, does that cause friction? And if it isn’t supported by the front arm, what is the front arm for?
I have seen a couple versions of yarn winders, holders and swifts using knex. I wonder if you could use the ferris wheel motor?
Did you say you'd let the magic smoke out of the sewing machine motor arrangement? Different sized pulleys on the motor and swift shaft might give you the speed reduction you want if it's not too big.
I have always gaged my projects on the number of trips to the store. 3 tripper is normally
Could you do a video talking about the s twist? I didn't understand that and what is a spinning wheel? I'm confused, I'm just knit lol
Guten Morgen! I am (for a change) not an engineer but an Anthropologist. And I really like the combination of trying out old things with inventing new ones. So far I have only been knitting socks and I already got the idea from you to knit both of a pair simoustainiously. ( how the hell do you spell that.) Liebe Grüße 👋
For finer control, could you not just move the rodes that gather yarn closer together? This would make it so that each rotation pulls less yarn effectivly doing the same thing as having a slower spinning motor.
This was super cool! I’ve been fantasizing about making my own unraveler since you posted your last video. I’m a computer scientist, and I was also probably complicating things in my head by thinking I’d use an arduino to control my own unraveler lol. I’m just wondering - where did you get your spinning machine? I’ve been trying to find one online and everything I’ve seen is $500+, and also made out of wood.
@@Stettafirethanks for the tip! However, i do not have the time i think to manually spin a thousand yards of yarn using a drop spindle, from the sweater I just unraveled 😅
Ah! I finally found it. It’s an Electric Eel Wheel. Looks like the 6.0 model, which costs about $300
hey, unrelated to this but when do you think you will make the sweater pattern for the sweater youre wearing?
A hair dryer is also a heat gun
What is your spinning wheel machine?
Shes a chemical engineer. 😧😧😧😎😎😎. Oh girl. ❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have a deviated septum on the left side of my nose trust me I know the struggle
You should absolutely aim to go into production ;) at least sell the plans to make one. Well done.
No heat gun? Use a hair dryer. Hair dryers are basically the same as a heat gun.
You're a chemical engineer? I thought you were solely a software engineer.
I considered being a materials engineer and became a lawyer instead... for some reason. I find that most software engineers who start as software engineers tend to just stay software engineers (due to job availability in the IoT world/Big Tech) but plenty of other engineers get into the software side as well. Like HVAC mechanical engineers getting into automation software. @@Stettafire
Six hundred dollars. Ppffftt. Hard pass.