Paul Rimbeck
Registered: August 2005
Location: Tabernacle, NJ
Posts: 297
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Fri February 26, 2010 5:01pm
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Slinkies! I had the same thing happen to my spool of silver twist. The spool was broken right in half. Came out of the box that way. Didn't even get a chance to use it. I have spoken to a few other people that had the same problem. Funny, the guy at the thread booth, will not mention any names, acted like he never heard of such a thing happening. Made in China?
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Paul Rimbeck
Registered: August 2005
Location: Tabernacle, NJ
Posts: 297
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Fri February 26, 2010 5:04pm
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Forgot to mention, that the guy at the booth did offer to replace the spool.
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Ralph Scaglione
Registered: March 2005
Posts: 1,046
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Fri February 26, 2010 5:27pm
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Same here with a spool of gudebrod green metallic
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Robbie Smith
Registered: May 2008
Posts: 17
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Fri February 26, 2010 6:57pm
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This thread was wound in the USA and looks much better wrapped on a rod! I was asked about broken spools at the ICRBE and I mentioned that broken spools such as this typically occur when the thread is wound too tight at the factory. It does happen! That is the case in this instance. Any thread with broken spools will be replaced immediately. If you have had a problem, please contact your distributor for your replacements.
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Michael Joyce
Registered: March 2005
Location: Central MA
Posts: 1,540
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Sat February 27, 2010 1:00am
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Ty Robbie...I'll get in touch with the distributor immediately....had a feeling there was as tension problem...lol
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Michael Joyce
Registered: March 2005
Location: Central MA
Posts: 1,540
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Sat February 27, 2010 1:04am
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btw Paul...Slinkies is a cool word
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BIlly Vivona
Registered: March 2005
Location: Staten Island, New York
Posts: 2,978
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Sat February 27, 2010 6:59am
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I spoke to RObbie & Scott about this at teh show, and it was in teh process of being taken care of. It's my fault for not telling them sooner that a couple of spools had popped, since they offered to take care of them ASAP. CAn't ask for more than that.
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Sean Endres
Registered: March 2005
Location: CT
Posts: 522
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Sat February 27, 2010 9:22am
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I have a few of these slinkie spools myself.
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Michael Joyce
Registered: March 2005
Location: Central MA
Posts: 1,540
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Sat February 27, 2010 9:33am
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Cool..didnt know this was happening elsewhere..cant ask for more than that. nice trimar btw.
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Mike Thompson
Registered: May 2008
Location: Stoneville NC
Posts: 32
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Sat February 27, 2010 3:36pm
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Slinkies! Paul has been watching too much Scooby Do! lol
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Bruce Wetzel
Registered: February 2006
Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Posts: 122
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Sun February 28, 2010 7:34am
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When I first saw the pic I thought your dog was at it again.lol
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Paul Rimbeck
Registered: August 2005
Location: Tabernacle, NJ
Posts: 297
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Wow, I'm kinda surprised that you guys never heard of a slinky. They were the spring like toys that you could get to crawl down the stairs. Had them when I was a kid. My sister and I would race them down the steps. I believe that the Slinky plant was located in Altoona?
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Sean Endres
Registered: March 2005
Location: CT
Posts: 522
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Paul, I was at a city council meeting last night and there was a kid in there with one of those slinky toys....LOL
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roger wilson
Registered: April 2007
Posts: 110
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Fri March 19, 2010 8:53am
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I realize that a good vendor will replace the spool of thread for you.
But if you have an immediate need for the spool, you can easily recover the bulk of the thread.
1. Simply take a threaded bolt with a pair of washers on each end, thread through the spool and tighten down the nut. This will straighten up the spool and keep the spool from coming apart.
2. Then, simply take your power wrapper, take an empty thread spool, run a bolt with a nut and washers on each end to keep the empty spool from rotating on the bolt.
3. Clamp the bolt of the empty spool in your power wrapper, hold the broken spool in your hands - it would be good if you had used a long threaded rod, so that you would have a bolt protruding from each end of the spool, and remove the thread from the broken spool, and wrap it back onto the empty good spool.
As you near the location on the spool where the break has occurred, and where there may be clamped threads, go easy and releive pressure if required to free any captured threads.
Roger
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