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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 11 Apr 1995.
Re: Line Spool Invention

Re: Line Spool Invention

>Don Schiewer (sch...@mfa.com) wrote:
>: I came up with a low cost and easy way to make kite line spools.
>: 
>: I use a heavy gauge coat hanger and bend it as follows...


>                                              _
>                 /-\                         ( )     <- attach here
>                |   |            -->          |
>                   /                          |
>         Here     |       Here             /-----\    <- hold here
>          v     /   \      v             /         \
>             /         \               /             \   
>          /               \            \             /   <- Wind here
>        (___________________)          /_____________\

>           -Don Schiewer-               -Don Schiewer-


>:If anyone has seen this before, please let me know --
>:Otherwise, it is my invention.

>:You should get about 1 foot per wind.
>:It is called a Winger (tm) (cp 1995)

>:Feel free to duplicate and propagate, but do not plaguerate.

>:Don Schiewer        
>:sch...@mfa.com

Hmmmm, where did I read that tightly wound line has enough force to 
actually CRUSH some winders?  And loosly wound line is an invitation to 
disaster (tangles). The last time I let out enought line to see the 
'core' on one of my WINDBREAKER winders I saw indentations on the 
hardwood from line pressure.

Richard in Boston
ami...@tiac.net

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From: ami...@max.tiac.net (Richard Amirault)
Subject: Re: Line Spool Invention
Date: 1995/04/11
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