Thread Number: 4012
Lux Model L Cordwinder- Maintenance? |
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Post# 45913 , Reply# 1   7/8/2008 at 17:17 (5,768 days old) by aeoliandave (Stratford Ontario Canada)   |   | |
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Like a roll-up window shade, the cordwinder drum has a kick out pawl that engages a stopblock once per revolution. The pawl is free swinging, as it were. It is kicked out to engage by centrifugal force or not at all at a slow speed, since the stopblock is usually located at the top...not always. It is most likely sluggish or stuck in place, hugging the drum core, with decades worth of accumulated greasy dust. Worst case scenario - the pawl post fell off and its rattling around in there. Unlikely. It's been a while since I took an XXX/LX/AE, etc add-on cordwinder apart but they can be opened in two halves and the spring action tightened up without having the dangerous coil spring unspool and create havoc. Pull out all the cord and continue turning the spool - having lifted the cord free around the edge of the cordreel - until the spring is coiled tight by feel. Then back it off one or two revolutions, re-orient the cord and rewind the cord back on the drum. Someone more recently familiar with the L winder can better advise you which housing half to take off first. Hopefully it will be a simple matter of shooting some WD40 or somesuch lube onto the pawl pivot with an extension straw. |