I thought I’d share this adventure here in case it was of use to anyone else… my Ashford Traditional was previously a single treadle. I was getting pains in my right leg, and had started thinking of buying a whole new wheel, but I do really love this one. I started googling the cost of new wheels, and somehow in the process discovered that you can buy double treadle conversion kits online (I got mine from the Woolery). It was not at all cheap, but it was cheaper than buying a new wheel. 

The treadle kit came unstained, so the fist thing I had to do was try to match my current wheel’s stain. Didn’t do the best job, but close enough. 

The second thing I had to do was figure out what all the wheel parts were. The instructions in the Ashford kit are… not good. They tell you to do things like remove the hub pin, detach the chron rod…. Ummmm, what? I had never tried to mess with a spinning wheel before, so I had no idea what these parts were. Thankfully I found this video, which at least helped me ID the parts in question: https://youtu.be/uEKA3QKpcjY?si=rs61QO0hKWfdyOXl

I also have an older model wheel, so removing (and reinserting) the hub pin is not as easy as on more modern versions of this wheel. I also, thankfully, stumbled on this lady’s video. Her tip of using a lazy Kate pin to line up the hole for hub pin with the hole in the crank was exactly what I needed: https://youtu.be/Mm3NcbQV2HA?si=wlRuTi2UBUqFoukN

The whole process of taking apart and reassembling my wheel took me about 30 minutes, and it is running smoothly and happily once again. And best of all, no more leg pain!

If anyone has more specific questions or needs more specific details on the process, I’m happy to try and answer them. 

Converted my Ashford Traditional from a single to a double treadle