Making your own Ropes

[Procrastinator]

I ordered the PL4 from Domanof

I will try the Guterman thread available locally and experiment. the suggested thread mentioned don’t appear to be available in Australia.

The Guterman treads available here in store where I live are just called Guterman polyester thread.

I will first try this one shown in image

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Hi Phillip. I was chatting to you on another Facebook page yesterday. As far as I can ascertain, the most important features to look for in threads are 100% monofilament polyester overlocking threads. Gutermann is the most famous for us modellers, not least because it is high quality and has some very useful shades (722 light beige and 696 dark brown). However, you have to go with what's available locally. I just Googled polyester overlocking threads in Australia, and up came Homecraft Textiles (homecrafttextiles.com.au) selling 5,000 metre spools for $3.99, and looks to have quite a colour range. Might be worth a try.

 

[Crisjaca]

Pedí el PL4 de Domanof

Probaré el hilo de Guterman disponible localmente y experimentaré. El hilo sugerido mencionado no parece estar disponible en Australia.

Los hilos Guterman disponibles aquí en la tienda donde vivo se llaman simplemente hilo de poliéster Guterman.

Primero probaré este que se muestra en la imagen.

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Hola, ese es demasiado grueso, estariamos hablando de 030 mm 0´35 mm, para depende de que lo vayas a usar se ira de escala, en serio, la maquina que he hecho me costo una mañana de hacer, motores de impresora vieja, transformadores de modem o similar, madera de chapacumen, y lo unico los rodamientos que si que pedi a Aliexpress, ten en cuenta que el hilo Mara 120 de Gütterman es de 0´10 0´15 mm y con ese te sale los cabos que quieras. Te adjunta tabla con los grosores dependiendo del nº de hilos que pongas en cada filatica, con el hilo de Mara 120ola

 

[Phillipsart]

When you go to the link I shared (post #8), you will discover that not sewing thread but lock yarn will give the best result. Gunterman is a brand that sells this and will give a good result, but also Serafil 120/2 of the brand Amann will give you a good result. Ropes of scale, I believe, also sells lockyarn for those who want to make their on rope. An endless rope making machine is not difficult to use, but it is limited in use. Rope of scale and modeltakelgarn (Germany) use machines like I use. The Domanoff machine that YT speaks about is easy to use, but also limited in lenght (or you live in a castle with a high tower and you love to run the stairs up and down). A horizontal rope machine is the best to use (especially for use old guys), like the reel thing unlimeted in lenght. It's no higher mathematic to build your own, but if you don't like that there are a lot of machines on the market. I sell this one for a cheap price.

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Hi everybody. Many know I worked on a rope walk for a long time. See here my topic about making rope. https://shipsofscale.com/sosforums/threads/make-your-rope-on-a-rope-walk.9094/ I'm so far to present you a machine that I make and sell. I already helped a lot of people into making ropes and I...

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But like I said there are more to buy or DIY. Read the link I first share and @Masters Mate also repleyed (post #11).

Thanks, I’ve already ordered the PL4. But I’m still interested in yours. How much to Australia