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straight and runs through the guides like a lead 

 wire. 



The chief fault with these wooden reels is 

 that they split readily if dropped. In casting 

 about for something as light but stronger I hit 

 on the following plan. 



Two pieces of sheet aluminum, 7x7x11/16- 

 inches were purchased. On each one I scribed 

 two circles, one 7 inches, the other 5^ inches 

 in diameter. They were easily cut out with a 

 hacksaw, the inner edges smoothed with file 

 and emery cloth, the outer edges with a very 

 small plane. Two feet of thin brass tubing, 

 and three feet of soft brass wire just the size 

 to fit the tubing were then procured. The tub- 

 ing was sawed into ^-inch lengths, and the 

 wire into %-inch lengths. I then marked the 

 inner edge of one of the aluminum circlets in 

 sixteen places, evenly spaced, and clamping them 

 together in a vise, bored holes through both at 

 the marks, and just far enough away from the 

 edge so that the rivets would not pull out. 



Taking the circlets out of the vise, they were 

 placed, one on each end of a piece of tubing, 

 a piece of wire pushed through all, and both 

 ends riveted. This was done all-round, the ends 

 of rivets smoothed off, and I had a reel that is 

 practically indestructible, but which weighs 



