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I rescued this hand crank this morning and it looks like a giant bobbin winder. Does anyone know what it is? Does anyone know what this is used for?

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My first guess would be a tool to wind yarn into a ball. I have a similar item that is made of plastic and used to wind embroidery floss onto cards.

Hand powered grinding wheel?


Joe

Ken,

I'm wondering if this isn't a crank, used for editing film. Editors would have film reels on either side, with a film viewer and a splicing block in between.

I couldn't think of the name of it, J and I looked online. If this is right it is called a film winder.

John

Reminds me of something that should have a sharpening stone on it for knives, axes, shovels, hoes.

That bottom line says New York, I think. The top line looks like Power Co. Barny Maybe Poale Co. ha,ha.

cool looking whatever it is

I'm still not entirely sure of the "proper name" for it but with all the clues I found "N POWER CO" was located in New York. The company produced the cameragraph and was started by Nicholas Power in the very early 1900's. Maybe not a very good example but found http://www.ebay.com/itm/361343725878

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

Ok...so I just have to ask this question....if you had no idea what it was or used for why did you rescue it??

I'm pretty sure is says N. Powle Co. -New York----Barny

Thanks Janey & John!

That is a good question. I have always rescued junk however.

why rescue an unknown? because it's neat and/or cheap. And often one can think of a use, even if it's not the original one.

And besides, some of us are suckers for anything handcrank!

I like stuff that I don't know what it is for.

Who are the people that wouldn't rescue something that cool?

I'll second that. Maybe make it into a bobbin winder or wind thread on a wooden spool or something like one of these http://needlebar.org/cm/displayimage..._display_media I've thought it would be convenient to have a hand crank to attach to a table that would work with a lot of different machines.

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

~Cathy you are correct about some of us are suckers for anything with a hand crank. Your comment brought back many old memories. It started when I was about seven years old. I talked Dad into bringing home an old wooden tubed washer with a hand crank wringer. He saw it a junk and I saw it as an easy way to shell green peas. We used to pick field peas green along the fence rows to can. Next was a large coffee grinder to grind wheat for my chicks. Then a meat grinder, apple peeler, butter churn, cider press, hand drill and a sewing machine. Yes I am a sucker for anything with a hand crank.

I would have rescued it too! Cool metal object, heck it is worth rescuing for that reason alone.lol

Well, I stand corrected. It is Power Co. I went back and looked at the pictures and sure enough, there it is, a film winder. OurWorkBench had it right on.

Reminds me of a twine maker, where you use several threads and this machine will twist the threads into a twine or small rope that does not un-twist when you let go of the end.

Sometimes some things need to brought home as a conversation piece.

Hah, cool. My Dad would always bring home stuff like this either from garage sales or stuff he came across buried in a field while working (he worked digging up old storage tanks for awhile), the whole family would fiddle with it and try to dream up what it possibly could have been for. (This was pre-internet, so we often had no idea what we had.)

I wouldn't have guessed this one, but I would have enjoyed playing with it, LOL.

I took a film class in high school, and that little flip thing on the end of the spindle is what would hold your film reel on the rewinder.

https://www.google.com/search?q=anti...ie+film+winder

There are several here mounted in twos on boards. I think a film editor would need these to move the film back & forth.

I bet the clamp one (the OP's hand crank) was for movie theaters. They would only need one, to rewind the reel back so the beginning of the the film is in front, to send it on to the next theater.