Domanoff Planetary Ropewalk Manual 

that shown in this manual! If necessary, remove the protective film from plastic parts.

el ropes: • 2-, 3- or 4-stranded, • With/without the core, • Plain laid or cable laid, • Left or right lay. Package contents 1. «Planetary 3.0», 2. Power supply (may be shipped separately), 3. Operating manual, 4. Video guides DVD. Machine parts 1. The head, 2. Take-up block, 3. Baseboard, 4. Control unit.

ers enclosed. 2. Position the drive motor (3), using screws. Do not tighten the screws at this stage. 3. Mount the take-up block (4), using screws. 4. Mount the spool holding axle (5) to the take-up block (4), using M3 screw. The take-up block fixed with just one screw is able to rotate. This allows to control the area of the take-up spool which receives the ready rope. That is handy when making thin ropes with diameters less than 0,5 mm. Thicker ropes wind more or less evenly to the take-up spool. 1 2 3 4 5

washers do not come apart. 2. Insert the main axle (7) with the main gear (8) into central bearing, having placed M8 washers in between. 6 7 8 3. Refit the cheek carefully. Make sure all axles sit in their corresponding slots. Make sure all gears engage, otherwise they will break when being mounted. Rotate the central axle to check the gears engagement. 4. Mount spacer sleeves between the cheeks. Insert remaining pins and bolts. Fix those with M5 nuts. 5. Check if the assembly runs freely by rotating the central axle. The nuts can be loosened a bit if necessary.

screws. Try to get into the cut thread. 2. Adjust the friction coupling clamp against the cheek’s butt and tighten drive motor screws (friction coupling is a rubber roller on the motor’s axle). Check the motion. 3. Mount the adaptor disk 15 mm away from the head and fix it. The disk’s holes should be positioned exactly opposite to the axles. 4. Mount the crossbar 35-40 mm away from the adaptor disk. Fix the crossbar. all-guides com

2. Insert the bolt through both fork and spool. Work the nut from the reverse side so that wings are tight againt the fork on both sides. However leave a gap between the spool and the felt collar to allow free rotation of the spool. Regardless of the operating mode it is NECESSARY to mount ALL spoolholders, spools, bolts and nuts. This provides good balance of the whole assembly. Spool holders assembly The order of mounting the spoolholder to the axle is as follows: 1. М5 washer, 2. Fork, 3. Wedge lock washer, 4. М5 nut.

1. Emergency stop/on switch (1) 2. Main drive on/rotation direction switch (2) 3. Take-up block on/rotation direction switch (3) 4. Main drive speed control knob (4) 5. Take-up block speed control knob (5) Main drive Take-up block 1 3 4 5 Power supply 2

spool and the felt collar to allow the thread run down the spool freely. 2. The distance between the crossbar and the adaptor disk defines the winding point. Recommended distance is 35-40 mm away from the adaptor disk. 3. The outage during winding is not the ropewalk’s defect - it is about how smoothly the thread runs down from one of spools. To eliminate the prob- lem try the following: • in some cases the only thing that helps is to remove all spools and refit them in a different order; • you can also try to replace the spool itself (the spools may be poor man- ufactured); • to check how the thread runs down just pull the thread and observe how spool rotates in the spool holder. 4. Uneven operation of the take-up block, head jumping, winding point offset do not make a problem and within certain range do not affect the winding. This may piss off, however... :) 5. If you experience the lack of speed at the take-up block, reduce the head ro- tation speed. 6. To increase the head rotation speed mount the friction coupling of larger di- ameter. Using smaller diameter friction coupling will reduce the speed. 7. Do not confuse sockets for the main drive and for the take-up block. These require different voltages. 8. Refer to the picture for cores diameters. R R 0.15R 0.41R

information Threads used Polyester threads (lavsan, terylene, dacron, tergal). List of manufacturers • Gutermann. Skala, Tera threads. • 2. Amann Group. Synton, Serafil threads. Colors article numbers • Gutermann numbers: black — 0000 dark-brown — Skala-696, Tera-452 beige — Skala-464, Tera-131 red — Skala-180, Tera-448 • Synton, Serafil numbers dark-brown — Serafil-0264, Synton-1224 beige — Serafil, Synton-0267 red — Serafil, Synton-026

threads Thread Lay Diameter, mm Thread Lay Diameter, mm Skala 360 1x3 0.19 70Л 1x3 0.62 Skala 240 1x3 0.22 Tera 80 2x3 0.65 Tera 60 (1/3) 1x3 0.25 Tera 10 (1/3) 1x3 0.68 Skala 360 2x3 0.26 22Л 3x3 0.68 Skala 200 1x3 0.26 130Л (1/3) 2x3 0.70 Tera 80 (1/3) 1x3 0.27 Tera 30 1x3 0.72 Tera 40 (1/3) 1x3 0.31 Tera 20 (1/3) 2x3 0.75 22Л 1x3 0.33 Tera 60 2x3 0.78 70Л (1/3) 1x3 0.33 Tera 80 3x3 0.84 Skala 240 2x3 0.35 170Л (1/3) 2x3 0.85 Tera 80 (1/3) 2x3 0.36 130Л 1x3 0.88 Skala 360 3x3 0.38 Tera 60 3x3 0.95 Tera 30 (1/3) 1x3 0.38 Tera 40 2x3 0.95 Skala 200 2x3 0.42 Tera 10 (1/3) 2x3 0.95 Tera 60 (1/3) 2x3 0.42 Tera 30 2x3 1.00 Tera 80 1x3 0.43 Tera 20 1x3 1.00 Skala 240 3x3 0.48 70Л 2x3 1.00 Skala 200 3x3 0.48 170Л 1x3 1.15 130Л (1/3) 1x3 0.48 70Л 3x3 1.22 Tera 40 (1/3) 2x3 0.50 Tera 40 3x3 1.25 Tera 20 (1/3) 1x3 0.50 Tera 10 1x3 1.30 70Л (1/3) 2x3 0.50 170Л 1x4 1.30 22Л 2x3 0.55 Tera 30 3x3 1.45 Tera 30 (1/3) 2x3 0.57 Tera 20 2x3 1.50 170Л (1/3) 1x3 0.60 130Л 2x3 1.50 Tera 60 1x3 0.62 170Л 2x3 1.70 Tera 40 1x3 0.62 Tera 10 2x3 1.94 Thread Lay Diameter, mm Thread Lay Diameter, mm Serafil 120/2 1x3 0.3 Synton 30 1x3 0.7 Synton 60 1x3 0.5 Synton 20 1x3 1.0 Note: • 1/3 means that the thread was untwisted into plies which then were used to wind the rope. • 1х, 2х, 3х - number of plies in a strand. • х3, х4 - number of strands in the rope. • The real rope is measured by circumference. Here the diameters are given. all-guides com