A few friends were chatting about swifts on AIM last night, and I mentioned my charity shop find, a folding mini-swift called the Aero Wool Winder. In the hope that some blog-readers might be interested, Rys helped me take some pictures of it today. Judging by the picture in the leaflet, I’d say it was made in the 1940s, or perhaps early 1950s:
It fits into a box 10″ x 2.7″ x 1.3″ (25.4 x 7 x 3.3 cm):
Assembling it, first the clamp is attached to a table edge. Notice the hole down the middle of the top part:
The brass post on the hub fits into that hole. Here is the arm and hub assembly when it is removed from the box:
Note the 3 slots in the top of the hub. The arms will fit into those. The knurled knob holds the arms in place.
This view of an arm shows the curved shape which will hold the skein and the sliding pieces at each end of the horizontal part:
A close-up of one of the sliders, which will be familiar to those of you who remember extending toasting forks:
And here it is part extended:
In its folded state, the working length of each of the 3 arms is about 6.7″ (17 cm) and fully extended they are 13.9″ (35 cm). For a picture of it fully assembled and in use, go back to the picture from the original leaflet.
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