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winding a paper core - making a centre on which to wind it

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ddmckee54:
Silly question, but have you sourced your roll stock yet, and how much are you going to be using?

I work in a plant that rolls tubes like this on an industrial scale and I'm having trouble imagining a supplier selling the small quantities that a home hobbyist would use.  Although, now that I think about it there is probably a cottage industry somewhere that is doing something similar.

Don

JerryNotts:
I already have a supply and stock of kraft sufficient for a few hundred small cores such as these. In any case there are several alternative ways of supplying the paper; buy wide rolls of kraft from ebay  and run through my Titan slitter to bring to size or as a last resort use till roles, most of these seem to be about 2" wide. On this scale cost is not significant.

Your location is not shewn on your posting but I imagine you are not in the UK. Before I retired we used to use about 300 per day of cores a little over a metre wide to fit 4" cones and found it OK to buy them in India.

Jerry

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