FRAME ASSEMBLY

1. Layout parts on floor.

2. Dry fit all of the cross bars into the one of the uprights. (It is possible you won't need to (or want to) glue these until you end up in your final working space.) Use a mallet to bang them in firmly and the winder will be stable. Put the second upright onto the legs and bang into place before positioning horizontally on the floor.

3.Set the motor and back leg as pictured above. Use the mallet to bang the back leg into the motor support. Then use the mallet to put the back leg/motor combination into the previously assembled portion of the frame.

4. Add the second cross bar to the pegs on top of each leg assembly. Tap firmly!

5. Then put in the remaining uprights. Put the upright with the carved openings in the left leg assembly . . . .

6. . . . .and the other upright (with the yellow plug) on the right (motor side) leg assembly.

7. Frame complete. Now assemble the cage. (The yarn guide and orange pulley belt are added after the cage is completed.)

CAGE ASSEMBLY

1. Place shaft on table.

2. Find strut/bar combo with white "hocky puck" and place on shaft as shown.

3. Find alumininum "hockey puck" with protruding bit and place on shaft as shown.

4. Slide hockey puck male parts into white hockey puck female parts.

5. Put other aluminum hockey puck on the other end of the shaft. The small hole on both aluminim hockey pucks should be facing "up." The flat spot of the shaft should be aligned under the small hole on the hockey pucks.

6. Insert struts into the related holes on the hockey puck. They will go all the way into the hole! Tighten set screw with small allen wrench provided. (If any of the set screws went astray during shipping, extras were provided.) TIGHTEN FIRMLY on BOTH HOCKEY PUCKS!

7. Put opposite strut/bar combo into related holes in hockey pucks and tighten set screws.

8. Repeat with last two strut/bar combos.

9. Cage assembled.

10. Example of tension release position.

9. Insert the end of the shaft opposite the tension release into the gold colored ball bearing/rod end on the end of the shaft. This is a tight fit and may need some gentle encouragement from mallet. Put the other ball bearing/black tape handle on the other end of the shaft. Put the pulley on shaft on the same end that passes through the gold ball bearing. (See finished frame assembly picture above. ) Attach pulley belt and test. Because of the v-belt and v-pulley, pulley belt does not need to be tight. If you feel you must tighten, then adjust by moving the motor.

10. Put the saddle with the black doohicky on the upright so that the magnet on the cage passes within 1/2" or so of the doohicky. Swing the cage back and forth and watch the counter. If the counter increments by 1 every time the magnet passes the doohicky, then they are positioned closed enough. Put the saddle with the counter above the doohicky on the upright (as shown) or on the cross bar below.

11. Pop the yarn guide supports onto the frame and put the yarn guide (pipe with eye screws) in the uprights on the frame -- (See finished frame assembly picture above.) Insert the cotter pins into the base of the yarn guide supports to prevent them from slipping side to side when the yarn guide is adjusted.