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I'd look under the left side of the bed, right about in the middle of the machine. I think there's a stitch regulator adjustment under there. Just a vague memory from a machine I remember looking at some time in the last few years. One of the big dogs will no doubt know right off the top of their head.

I can whip up a reasonable faux-haggis pretty well... not many sheep stomachs right on hand in the Florida forest but there's steel cut oats and meat (maybe beef w/some lamb), seasoning & fat, and some organs to make it convincing. Can't skip the offal altogether or else it's just oat-burger. I liked it so much when I got to stay in Aberfeldy I had to seek out something similar at home. Haven't replicated beans on toast, though O.O. I could go for wood pidgeon breast again, though!

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Friquant, I'm not using any machines. I'm hand-sewing and frankly, I'm getting tired of it.

Although not quite a leather sewing machine, does anybody know how to regulate/change the stitch length on 5100 series Union Specials?

Tooling during bad weather, working on a 6.5 inch square piece of cowboys on a stagecoach.

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Thank you Thanks and I hope your idea works well for you !! Thank you

Bob Krovar said bend the plate to adjust. Will give it a try, or rob the plate off the old tensioner.

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I have an Artisan Toro 3000. When I sew forward my knot is properly positioned in center of leather, when I sew backward my knot is on top of leather. 207 thread top and 130 thread bottom. 24 size needle. 8 oz English Bridle. Is this normal or is there an adjustment to correct Issue?

Standard Rivet automatic spot setter. I have the original catalog for this unit. We have set as many as 450 spots in one hour on chaps. Call with questions…970-200-6328.

Hey there, sorry it took me so long to get back to you. Thanks again!! Here’s a photo and some video of it in action. IMG_0578.mov

Thanks everyone for your taking your time for suggestions & insight!!! I am going to order some different needles and thread. If the skipped stitches continue, I will do the suggested adjustments. I am snowed in for the next couple of days. Please consider this thread PAUSED for the next week until needles and thread arrive and adjustments are made!!!

Yes, you can still get them in brass. Oddly enuf, my #1 son's belt needs a new buckle and all he finds are brass ones, which he doesn't like Shame to say it but try Temu

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Remove the two endcaps from the left end of the cylinder bed. Turn the hand crank and you'll see the vertical feed cam in action. You can loosen the setscrews in it and rotate it to taste. In terms of order of operations, you will want to adjust the vertical feed cam first. (Probably such that the feed dog is at its highest point when the needle is at bottom dead center.) Afterwards you would adjust the eccentric that moves the rock frame (such that the needle arrives at the throat plate at the same time as the inner toe)

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I really like this, nice work and a light bulb just went off , great idea! Thanks for sharing.

You might want to post a pic so we know exactly what you need.

I am going to make my wife a two prong mechanics bet. However, the reason why is she’s allergic to most metals pretty severely. The cheap one you see on Weaver and whatnot are nickel. Her worst one. I saw a post on here from 2011 that somebody made these out of brass. Anybody still make two prong mechanics belt hardware from brass?

As Wiz said - American Straight Needle. Old, heavy, and no new parts available. The guy who taught me a lot about tools repaired and restored a lot of the old needle and awl machines in this area. His advice to me was to never buy a needle and awl until he was gone. He'd worked on his last one. He said when if I did buy one, get a Landis 3 and second choice a 16, Champion deep throat next, and run away from the Americans. Sam had a shop in Canada for a while. He had a pretty good story about a guy who moved up to that area. He tried to sew some saddle skirts on an "ol' wore out loose straight needle sloppier than the back end of a gummer Holstein cow". The skirts got chewed up and that guy vowed to hand sew the rest of his life, and according to accounts - did that in fact. You may have read about him doing this.

very nice work.

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