EclecticGuy » furling engine http://www.eclecticguy.com musings of just some guy Wed, 23 Jun 2010 15:22:37 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 A new production furler http://www.eclecticguy.com/2010/02/08/a-new-production-furler/ http://www.eclecticguy.com/2010/02/08/a-new-production-furler/#comments Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:54:50 +0000 EclecticGuy http://www.eclecticguy.com/?p=1481 A new customer commissioned me to make this special furler for him. He makes furled leaders for sale on his Streamside Leader web store. He wanted a 3 strand furler with a central hook to do a power reverse twist! We worked together for a few weeks to come up with this basic design.

The engine is solid brass with 3 hooks orbiting a 4th central hook that rotates the opposite direction. The cradle holds a powered handpiece that chucks the furler shaft. The handpiece is held down with velcro looped around the brass cross bars as shown in the last photo. Quite the device! I am going to build myself one like this for the furled silk fly lines I am protoyping.

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