Both the wings are nailed on to the wooden shaft marked _8_, its size being 4-1/2 inches long and 4 inches diameter. Through the middle of this shaft passes a long round iron bar, which serves as an axle. It is 19 inches long and half an inch thick. Its end, where the handle is fixed is made square to ensure firmness of the handle. A wooden washer one inch thick is fixed to the axle on either side of the drum to avoid its contact with the uprights. The handle is shaped put of a wooden piece of 2 inches × 2 inches × 1-1/2 feet long. The reel noticed in the diagram between the drum and the handle is composed of a wooden disc marked _9_ made out of 1 inch thick and 6 inches square piece of wood. Six brackets made of galvanized wire of 10 gauge radiate from the centre of the disc so as to make a circumference of 4 feet. The brackets are fixed in the back of the disc with bent ends and are further secured with small nails near the circumference of the disc. A wire noose is fixed on the back base just below the reel to regulate the yarn when wound up on the reel from a bobbin or directly from the spindle. A 4 inches long bamboo pin is fixed in the inward side of the front base parallelly to the long plank marked 3. It is meant to hold the bobbin while opening out yarn from it. When the yarn is opened from the spindle directly, it is held in the left hand with the point towards the reel. The right hand is employed in turning the reel by the handle of the _charkha_. The figure _10_, indicates the position of the spinner. CORRECTIONS: