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Shaft Switching Device

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Peter Collingwood described this kind of shaft switching device, where levers can be used to move the eye in a "transit heddle" between the eyes of two heddles mounted on regular shafts. Carol Irving guided me to the four-end unit threading described in the article Samba from Handwoven Magazine Nov/Dec 2020.

Some inferred measurements:

  • Lever length 4.375, thickness .4 width 1/2”
  • Pivot .475” from end
  • Texsolv holes .67” from other end maps
  • Side plank .9” x .377 / 3” inside to inside / 4.85” outside to outside / 3.9” on center
  • 3/16 side rods
  • 1/4 pivot rod
  • L-channel
  • .43 in vertical center to center of woods
  • Shaft rod: 1.25 x 3/8
  • Device width: 47”

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