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20.
Install the brake eyebolt and brake spring.
Parts: 1 – eyebolt, 1 – brake spring, 1 – 3/16" washer
Attach the brake spring to the brake bar. Insert the eye-
bolt through a 3/16" washer, through the hole in the long
barrel nut, and screw it into the spring.
Tighten the eyebolt until you can’t turn the warp beam
away from you when you twist the beam with both hands.
When you hold the brake release pedal down, the warp
beam should turn freely in either direction.
By tightening or loosening the eye bolt, you can increase or
decrease the tension on the friction brake. There should be
small gaps between the coils of the brake spring once the
proper tension is reached.
Figure 20 - iNSTALL THe BrAKe eYeBOLT AND BrAKe SPriNg
brake
spring
brake
eyebolt
washer
brake bar
Figure 21 - iNSTALL BrAKe BeAM CrANK HANDLe
21.
Install the warp beam crank handle.
Parts: 1 – warp beam crank handle, 1 – 3/8" washer,
1 – 3/8" cap nut.
Place the 3/8" washer and then the metal crank handle
on the threaded shaft extending through the leg from the
brake end of the warp beam. The wood crank handle faces
away from the loom. Secure with the 3/8" cap nut. Tighten
the nut by placing the handle over it and turning clockwise.
To engage the crank for turning the warp beam, pull the
hexagonal hole in the crank onto the cap nut. While weav-
ing, the crank should be pushed off the cap nut.
cap nut
warp beam
crank handle
3/8" washer
threaded
shaft
22.
Install the removable back beam.
Parts: Back beam, 2 – black knobs, 2 – fender washers, 2 –
1/4" barrel nuts.
Slide the back beam into the slots cut in the top of the
inside legs. Put a fender washer on a knob, and insert the
knob through the leg, into the back beam, and tighten it
into a barrel nut in the back beam. Repeat for the other
side.
Inside
left leg
back beam
fender
washer
black knob
barrel nut
Figure 22 - iNSTALL THe reMOVABLe BACK BeAM
brake bar
Figure 19 - iNSTALL THe BrAKe COrD
S-hook
19.
Install the brake cord.
Parts: 1 – brake peg, 1 – S-hook, Texsolv brake cord.
Remove the shrink wrap packaging holding the brake
release pedal to the outside right leg, being careful not to
let it slam to the floor. Attach the S-hook to the hole on the
rear of the brake bar. Loop the Texsolv brake cord through
the S-hook on the brake bar. Slip the other end of the cord
through the hole in the brake release pedal. Secure the
brake cord by inserting the brake peg into the 4th loop
from the end of the Texsolv brake cord.
brake
release
pedal
Texsolv
brake cord
Texsolv
brake cord
brake
peg
