If it's a single drive wheel you need a single drive band which can be a length of cotton, cord or wool, you can buy the bands for them it just comes down to what you want to use and what works! If it's a double drive wheel you need a longer band which goes around the wheel, onto the bobbin, around the wheel again and onto the whorl in a figure of 8 pattern. The band will cross over itself when you do this, if your spinning in a clockwise motion the crossover point will be at the bottom, if spinning anticlockwise, the crossover will be at the top. I too had a hard time finding out about my antique wheel, I wasn't sure what it was a double or single drive, but single drive wheels have a break mechanism on the mother of all, double drive wheels dont.

Hello! Hopefully you have a spinning guild in your area so that someone can look at it in person - often the best way to decide on repairs since each wheel has its own story and oddities. Knowing nothing about your particular wheel, I'd say try wedging the spokes into place with paper or a small wad of fiber. There is also a glue-type product called something like Lock Tite that is designed to help stop chair leg wobbles. I'd leave this as a last resort, especially not knowing your situation and it's not undoable if a better fix is found.

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Its hard to be sure without a picture, but if there is a spike-type thing out the front, either the entire thing was put on backwards or yours may be of a different type called a spindle or quill wheel. Rather than an orifice, the yarn is spun off the tip of the "sleeping beauty spindle". Great wheels or walking wheels work the same way. If the entire thing is backwards and you don't have an orifice, the orifice may have snapped off from the flyer. A replacement piece could be made and attached to the flyer to get it working.

A single string or "belt" is used on a single-drive wheel, while a two-drive wheel has a string looped in a figure eight around the whorl and then the bobbin. A two-drive model has no braking mechanism, unlike single-drive systems.

I am in the EXACT same predicament! Did you ever hey it figured out?

@@sunshinespirit1877 I still have problems at times, but try spinning the wheel the opposite direction and hold the bobbin so the yarn leader doesnot spin on the bobbin.

Try changing the tension.

How change tension

I completely understand why you put two bands on and honestly, if you're happy with how it's spinning, there's really no reason to change it! However, you may have a harder time fixing tension issues down the road. Since you tied the bands separately, they are each at slightly different tensions and will probably stretch at different rates. There's no way to adjust for that except fiddling with the band itself. If there's any stretch in the single loop, it will be uniform through the whole thing and can be easily adjusted by nudging the tension up slightly. Thanks for the awesome question!

Yes, you are absolutely right! I already thought about it. So far, it seems to work, but I am sure at some point when I will have to deal with different fibers etc. this will be an issue. I will change it into a single band sooner rather than later. Thank you so much for answering.I appreciate it.

Sure!