These are my two coil winders.
I have an idea.
I would like to remove the tail-stock from one of them, and turn it around. Using some sort of belt-drive that's driven from the main spindles on the left, I think it would be possible to power the spindles on the tail stocks, same speed, same number of rotations, etc. This would make the machine a two-station winder. I've seen older winders built in a similar fashion before, with belt drives driven from the main spindle.
Doing this, I could extend the wire guides out to reach the tail-stock spindle.
Does there exist some sort of small driveshaft that could be secured to the table top, turned by the belt, and powering the second spindle? Belt passes downward, to the shaft, shaft turns, and passes a second belt to the tail-spindle.
Theoretically, it could be attached to the round black fastener at the rear of the top machine, instead of to the table.
I think the top pictured winder would be easier to work with. The tail-stock on the bottom winder has a funky lever mechanism that's used to move and lock it in place...
