I recently acquired a loom that has no brake release from sitting position. I want to fix that. Anyone else have this problem? There is no identifier on the loom but it does not seem homemade.
Without seeing a picture of your loom, it's very hard to suggest a fix. Lots of looms require getting up to advance the warp. One solution is to use live weight tension. You wrap a cord three times around the beam, with a heavy (~20#) weight on the tension side, and a smaller weight on the other side. It can take some experimentation to get the cord and weights right. A very smooth, slick cord doesn't work.
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Without seeing a picture of your loom, it's very hard to suggest a fix. Lots of looms require getting up to advance the warp. One solution is to use live weight tension. You wrap a cord three times around the beam, with a heavy (~20#) weight on the tension side, and a smaller weight on the other side. It can take some experimentation to get the cord and weights right. A very smooth, slick cord doesn't work.