If you mean the stand alone bobbin winder called the Sidewinder I have one. I use it often or rather my grand did. She loved to wind bobbins on it. I about cleaned out Walmart on plastic bobbins one summer. I had a shoe box full. I took them to guild to give to the members as hand sewing thread if the bobbins didn't work for their machines. One thing I did was take the top off the sidewinder and put in a very heavy weight. There is lots of room in the body of it. I found a chunk of metal in my husband's shop that fit. The weight kept it from falling over when winding.
I still have it and it works fine to fill a lot of bobbins but really I'd buy it again for just the grands to use. Every grand from age four found it to be their favorite way to 'help' in the sewing room. The boys loved using it. I guess because it was a machine and it did something they could make happen.
Last edited by Onebyone; 07-12-2025 at 11:03 AM.