{"id":485,"date":"2021-06-29T18:49:05","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:49:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/?p=485"},"modified":"2021-06-29T18:49:05","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T23:49:05","slug":"belts-chains-and-rope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/?p=485","title":{"rendered":"Belts, Chains, and Rope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>So the test yarn is spooled and loaded into the rope machine. Learned the basic operation of the counter module which shuts the machine off when it reaches a specified number of revolutions. Once the machine is ready for production I can calculate the volume of rope made per revolution. This is approximately 2 inches per revolution. So I can set the counter to stop once the machine has made the amount of rope I need. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I started swapping the belt pulleys and chain sprockets to produce rope that has the same twist and feel of the rope I make by hand.<\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"gt3pg_gallery1\" class=\"gt3pg_galleryid-485 gt3pg_gallery-columns-3 gt3pg_photo_gallery gt3pg-corner-type-standard gt3pg_hover-default gt3pg-type-masonry\" data-size=\"thumbnail\" data-type=\"masonry\" data-corner=\"standard\" data-link=\"lightbox\" data-margin=\"10\" data-instance=\"1\"><figure class=\"gt3pg_gallery-item gt3pg_element\"><div class=\"gt3pg_item_main_wrapper\"><div class=\"gt3pg_item-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210620_160055-768x1365.jpg\" class=\"gt3pg_swipebox \" data-description=\"\"><div class=\"gt3pg_img_wrap \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210620_160055-768x1365.jpg);\" 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class=\"gt3pg_item-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210620_160732-768x1365.jpg\" class=\"gt3pg_swipebox \" data-description=\"\"><div class=\"gt3pg_img_wrap \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210620_160732-768x1365.jpg);\" data-width=\"1440\" data-height=\"2560\" data-i=\"7\" >\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210620_160732-768x1365.jpg\" title=\"20210620_160732\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n<\/div><\/a>\n<\/div>\n <\/div><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gt3pg_gallery-item gt3pg_element\"><div class=\"gt3pg_item_main_wrapper\"><div class=\"gt3pg_item-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210620_155955-768x432.jpg\" class=\"gt3pg_swipebox \" data-description=\"\"><div class=\"gt3pg_img_wrap \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210620_155955-768x432.jpg);\" data-width=\"2560\" data-height=\"1440\" data-i=\"8\" >\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210620_155955-768x432.jpg\" title=\"20210620_155955\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n<\/div><\/a>\n<\/div>\n <\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n <style type='text\/css'>\r\n\t\t\t#gt3pg_gallery1 .gt3pg_item_main_wrapper {\r\n\t\t\t\tpadding: 5px\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>I ran hundreds of feet of rope through the machine trying to get the pulley and sprocket ratios just right. I eventually ran out of yarn before I could get to where I wanted to be. The rope looks good despite not having been screened for contaminants before being twisted. The twist is also very close to the desired parameters. <\/p>\n\n\n<div id=\"gt3pg_gallery2\" class=\"gt3pg_galleryid-485 gt3pg_gallery-columns-3 gt3pg_photo_gallery gt3pg-corner-type-standard gt3pg_hover-default gt3pg-type-masonry\" data-size=\"thumbnail\" data-type=\"masonry\" data-corner=\"standard\" data-link=\"lightbox\" data-margin=\"10\" data-instance=\"2\"><figure class=\"gt3pg_gallery-item gt3pg_element\"><div class=\"gt3pg_item_main_wrapper\"><div class=\"gt3pg_item-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629_165007-768x432.jpg\" class=\"gt3pg_swipebox \" data-description=\"\"><div class=\"gt3pg_img_wrap \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629_165007-768x432.jpg);\" data-width=\"2560\" data-height=\"1440\" data-i=\"1\" >\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629_165007-768x432.jpg\" title=\"20210629_165007\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n<\/div><\/a>\n<\/div>\n <\/div><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gt3pg_gallery-item gt3pg_element\"><div class=\"gt3pg_item_main_wrapper\"><div class=\"gt3pg_item-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629_165016-768x432.jpg\" class=\"gt3pg_swipebox \" data-description=\"\"><div class=\"gt3pg_img_wrap \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629_165016-768x432.jpg);\" data-width=\"2560\" data-height=\"1440\" data-i=\"2\" >\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629_165016-768x432.jpg\" title=\"20210629_165016\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n<\/div><\/a>\n<\/div>\n <\/div><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"gt3pg_gallery-item gt3pg_element\"><div class=\"gt3pg_item_main_wrapper\"><div class=\"gt3pg_item-wrapper\"><a href=\"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629_164934-768x432.jpg\" class=\"gt3pg_swipebox \" data-description=\"\"><div class=\"gt3pg_img_wrap \" style=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629_164934-768x432.jpg);\" data-width=\"2560\" data-height=\"1440\" data-i=\"3\" >\r\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/20210629_164934-768x432.jpg\" title=\"20210629_164934\" alt=\"\" \/>\r\n<\/div><\/a>\n<\/div>\n <\/div><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n <style type='text\/css'>\r\n\t\t\t#gt3pg_gallery2 .gt3pg_item_main_wrapper {\r\n\t\t\t\tpadding: 5px\r\n\t\t\t}\r\n\t\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t\n\n\n<p>Onice I get more yarn spooled and loaded into the machine I shouldbe able to get it dialed in pretty quickly. Lol, like maybe a day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I believe I have enough yarn on hand to make 100m (12.5 hanks) of every color combination the shop offers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next big step is to design and build a machine that will wind several spools of yarn at once while the yarn can be inspected, repaired, and cleaned. Currently I inspect about 1800 feet in about 8 minutes or 225ft\/min. I&#8217;d like to significantly increase that rate but definitely cannot fall below that rate. At the lowest speed the machine can turn yarn into rope about 2.5 times faster than I currently can inspect it. So even if I significantly improve the inspection and spooling rate the machine will almost always be waiting for more yarn. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the test yarn is spooled and loaded into the rope machine. Learned the basic operation of the counter module which shuts the machine off when it reaches a specified number of revolutions. Once the machine is ready for production I can calculate the volume of rope made per revolution. This is approximately 2 inches &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/?p=485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Belts, Chains, and Rope&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/startup.twistedjute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}