Domanoff Planetary Ropewalk User manual

Ropewalk
"Planetary"
VERSION 3.0
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ATTENTION!
e design of the machine may dier from
that shown in this manual!
If necessary, remove the protective lm from plastic parts.

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Basic features
Planetary type ropewalk ("Planetary") is intended for making professional mod-
el ropes:
• 2-, 3- or 4-stranded,
• With/without the core,
• Plain laid or cable laid,
• Le 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. e head,
2. Take-up block,
3. Baseboard,
4. Control unit.

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Basic assembly
1. Fix the support column (2) on the baseboard (1) using M4 screws and wash-
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.
e take-up block xed with just one screw is able to rotate. is allows to control
the area of the take-up spool which receives the ready rope. at is handy when
making thin ropes with diameters less than 0,5 mm. icker ropes wind more or
less evenly to the take-up spool.
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Head assembly
1. Unscrew the nuts o the bolts. Remove one of cheeks (6) making sure the
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.
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3. Ret 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. e nuts can be
loosened a bit if necessary.

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Machine assembly
1. Place the head’s main axle into the support column groove. Fix it with
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 x it. e 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.

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1. Insert the spool into the fork.
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. is provides good balance of the whole assembly.
Spool holders assembly
e order of mounting the spoolholder to the axle is as follows:
1. М5 washer,
2. Fork,
3. Wedge lock washer,
4. М5 nut.

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Control unit
e unit has the following control elements:
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
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Power
supply
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Operation guidelines
1. Do not overtighten the spool in the spoolholder. Leave a gap between the
spool and the felt collar to allow the thread run down the spool freely.
2. e distance between the crossbar and the adaptor disk denes the winding
point. Recommended distance is 35-40 mm away from the adaptor disk.
3. e 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 ret
them in a dierent 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 oset
do not make a problem and within certain range do not aect the winding.
is may piss o, 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. ese
require dierent voltages.
8. Refer to the picture for cores diameters.
RR
0.15R
0.41R

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Threads for making ropes - reference
information
Threads used
Polyester threads (lavsan, terylene, dacron, tergal).
List of manufacturers
• Gutermann. Skala, Tera threads.
• 2. Amann Group. Synton, Seral 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, Seral numbers
dark-brown— Seral-0264, Synton-1224
beige— Seral, Synton-0267
red— Seral, Synton-026