That said, by the time I was done rewinding and filing and cleaning and dismantling and reassembling the machine, I was producing three meter long parts reproducably accurate to 1/10 of a mm, first try. So there's a certain satisfaction. And I know it'll be a breeze to use tomorrow - and once I get the other coils reversed, I'll have far less trouble with it, and less deadlifting from floor to chest-height to manually feed clockwise coils.
Tonight's a bit achey and miserable, is all.