Electric Wheel!

[unicornduke]

It arrived!!! I’m making this post two weeks after it arrived but hey, whatever.
I backed the Electric Eel Wheel 6.0 Kickstarter back in June 2020. From what I can tell from the updates, for the most part everything went smoothly with production and there was only a month delay from the estimated delivery due to the global freaking pandemic. Not bad. Mine arrived March 31th, a day before it was estimated to be delivered so I was super jazzed.
I was a little unimpressed by the box, seemed a little flimsy but the contents were just fine and well padded.

I got the wheel, all parts needed, the lazy kate and six bobbins. The bobbins hold about 8 ounces each and I can confirm this. Set up only took ten minutes or so and minor fiddling. I went with plugged into the wall, but I also bought a rechargable battery from Amazon for different location spinning.

I sat down that afternoon, it was delivered around 1:30 and by 4, I had set it up and plyed a full bobbin of 3 ply Shetland that had been on bobbins waiting. I got the entire 20 oz of that spin plyed in three days, probably 6 hours total. It was amazing!
I was able to set the foot pedal on my lap and was able to start and stop very easily. Only minor issue is when the power cord was slightly detached and causing some weird power issues. Easily fixed though!
I’m very happy with it for plying and maybe at some point, I’ll use it for spinning some thick yarns which my treadle wheel doesn’t like. I’m not sure if I’ll set up another project on it since I don’t love having more than one project going at a time that are very similar but we will see.

Comments

[dragonlady7]

v v cool
now i am envious
but i need to like. properly set up my spinning and actually, you know, accomplish some volume thereof, before i make any more expenditures........

[graydon]

There's a lot to be said for buying in at generation six of a technology!

May it indeed contain years and years of flawless service.