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Needle holes look pretty big. As kgg says, need needle and thread information. Tom

See this post. Good stuff in the rest of the thread too. Tom

@BruceEW Please post the photos here. If the photos on imgur are moved, deleted, permissions changed, etc., then this post becomes useless. As you work your way through older posts here, you will find many broken links. We would like to keep these posts/threads intact for the future. Tom

Yes, really slow this morning. It took forever to login and get my list of downloads up so I could finish downloading some files that were still outstanding. Seems to be going well right now. Tom

@Bullhead1 Moved your post from for sale to leather sewing machines since you are not selling a machine. Tom

I am a hoarder! Books, magazines, etc. Used to have stacks of woodworking magazines. Scanned them all and built a database to be able to find articles on any subject. Freed up a lot of shelf space. Now I should be able to dispose of some of my leatherworking print books. Time to build another database! Did you see the Doodle Pages "Doing Hair With a Glovers Needle by D. Somerfield Ferweda (Series 8D Page 1)"? Thought you might be interested in this one. I need to redo my horse head again and see if this technique works for me. Tom

Yes, 984 files! Now how to index all the items so I can find them! Tom

Nice job Stewart! Tom

Welcome to Leatherworker.net. Please resize your photos to fit. See Photos that are hosted on 3rd party sites and linked here will disappear when the host site changes their policies, or disappears. Also when you remove the photos or change access requirements on the host site, they disappear from here. To maintain the continuity and value of posts and threads here, photos need to be posted here. Tom

No glitch! Celebrating Tandy's 100 year anniversary and 100 years since Al Stohlman's birthday. Website is sure slow, but it is working. Server has reset a couple times while I've been putting stuff into my basket and checking it out. It recovered without losing anything. Tom

Should also note that seasonal differences in temperature and humidity will affect how long cased leather takes to dry to the optimal tooling state. So times you figure out for summer may be substantially different in the winter. Tom

Warm should be lukewarm, not hot. Warm water does seem to soak in faster, but the real result you are looking for is to get moisture into the core, let the surface dry to about its natural colour, and the go to work. Wetting the surface and casing are not the same. Casing is allowing the moisture you have added to the leather to equalize throughout the leather. It still has to dry enough to take crisp tooling and to burnish. Test a piece. If you are going for full casing, after you pull it out of the bag or whatever, use the same stamp and stamp it every 15 minutes. Write the time down beside each impression. Keep going until it is obviously too dry, then look back and see which time had the best detail, crisp, and burnished. Then use that information to tool that piece of leather. Another new hide may require different timing. Tom

I've had no trouble with these types of straps. Possibly your strap material is too thin, or poor quality. It looks like maybe the strap was nicked by a sharp item and started to unravel. I had straps on bags that were used to hold electronic vibration monitoring instruments and were used all day long in a dirty and challenging environment. No breakage of the plastic hardware or the straps. When the bag (fabric - canvas like exterior, padding, and a silky smooth lining) got dirty enough, I threw them in the washing machine to clean them up a little. So with all the abuse they suffered, I had no failures. Tom

It's a good idea to put your location in your profile. Helps people that are interested or searching for help, etc. locally. Tom

The top of this article shows the basic parts of a simple sewing machine. Some instruction and parts manuals. The instruction manuals show how to reset the clutch. 111W156manual.pdf 111g156.pdf 111w156.pdf The 111W156 manual seems to be a better copy. W and G signify the locations the machines were built at. Thought this little GIF might help you understand a little how the machine works. Tom

Would be a good idea to pass along the info on your dealer in case someone else in your area is looking for one now, or in the future when they come across this post. Tom

Resize the photo. Should add your location to your profile. Could have put you in touch with a dealer much sooner. Good luck with your machine. Tom

@Hdemetrious Please read the marketplace rules and conform to them. See https://leatherworker.net/forum/forum/70-announcements/ Shipping, some pictures would be great, more description, working condition, etc. Tom

Go through and oil all moving parts before running it. From what I understand from other posts here, the machine needs to run at high speed every so often to get the pump to pump oil up to all the spots that it is supposed to lubricate. Most of these type were built for production facilities and the operators ran them at full speed. Running slow doesn't pump the oil up (depending exactly on what machine you have which I don't know enough about). If the gasket was no problem before, and didn't leak all over, then it should be okay. It won't hurt the machine. Good luck Tom

You can download those pics to your computer and upload them here. That will keep this thread intact instead of having someone start a new thread, especially if he/she is not already a member here and attempts to post as a guest. Tom

@Sledzep01 Kinda sounds like you are asking about a sewing machine, so moved your post to leather sewing machines. Most dealers will have Lily White sewing machine oil available. Oil needs to be free of additives that will degrade to varnish and jam up the machine some day. Also don't want coloured oils that will leave colour stains on your work pieces. Oil in your tank should be clean (clear), no water rolling around in the bottom, no junk/fuzz in the bottom. Good idea to change the filter if the machine has been operating in a dirty environment and has junk in the oil. Tom

Check your post now and then to see if there have been any responses. Also, post the pictures so we can see them in order to be able to answer your question. Links to a closed forum are not the way to go. If you don't post the photos here so we can see them, I'll take this thread down! Tom

You might like to give a link to the site you posted on. Would save people a lot of time searching for your listing. Tom

@Techsew Ron looks like some followup is needed. Tom

Have you contacted http://y-knotlace.com/ in Montana or https://www.knottylinda.com/ in British Columbia? Can't tell from their website whether the lace is bevelled or not. Both have a large colour selection. Contact them and ask. Both are using kangaroo. Tom