Hope of interest. Possibly off topic.
I had to refurbish the cat house and restring the scratching posts, (tubes) as we have 5 cats?
and these cat house support posts save on the ripping up of the drapes and furniture.?
If these 10 posts were hand wound with the new 8 mm dia jute, it would be very time consuming
and difficult to apply the correct tension when winding on to the tubes,
So I started by removing the old "jute" or string leaving a plain cardboard tube.
Then I just managed to get the posts between centre's on the mini lathe picking up off the attachment nuts. I mean only JUST "phew" due to the length.
By power rotating the lathe spindle, then initially applied some wood glue all the way along the tube. It looked like a spring or spiral effect.
The start of the new jute strand was stapled, then I turned on the late, very slow RPM, and wound on the new jute, the end of the strand after winding on
the full length was stapled.
Time to complete the rewinds of jute for 10 posts, 2 hours.
Now if my wife can remember how the cat house all goes back together LOL I should be OK.
I asked her to take a photo before disassembly, she did not. GR!!!!!!!!!!!
Unbelievable but each post required 12 mm of jute, expensive repair, but it saves money on replacing the furniture and drapes.
Photo 1 Jute to be stripped off.
Photo 2 Tube between centres.
Photo 3 New jute wound on between centre's.
Photo 4 One tube done
Photo 5 Stack of 10 posts done.
Again, OT but put the lathe to some good use and could be of interest to other group cat owners.
Thanks
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John
John Lindo
