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I have looked at the tightness of the feed dog, although I can not make it any tighter but there is a little movement there. I hear you on the 'reverse', Just so you know the other day I had a sample of 22mm of the hardest sole leather stitched together (4 layers), reliably, it was stitched on a BLAKE DN76 machine, that's the kind of machine I should have bought. take care

Here is all the info I have to give you, After the engineer looked at the machine and did a bunch ofthings it could stitch about 1/2" thick (medium hard) leather, it wasstill skipping stitches every now and then. Then I looked at it and afterplaying with the 'needle bar position' and changing the thread to 'TEX550 Braided polyester' and finally changing the needle to Schmetz 794 S 280 size I can now stitch up to about 15mmthick medium hard leather, any thicker it will skip stitches. I use soft and medium leather (not hard leather) The machine is well capable and has the power with theDC1550 efka and speed reducer to punch the holes but it will skip stitches. Hasit reached its limits at 15mm ? regards

I will get back to you on all these questions, many thanks for the help.

Last week I had a sewing machine engineer at my cost work on the machine, we never managed to get anywhere near the sample that Weaver Leather sent me which was done on the same machine, also the machine still misses stitches.

This machine does not sew 14mm thick and you are still talking about 20mm. I was advised by who, by you ? I have a sample of 20mm thick leather done on an Adler 205-370 machine, it was sent to me by Weaver Leather. The machine can do it if it is set up correctly which is the way the machine was supposed to be sent to me but instead the machine was never tested properly by Andreas Kern of SIECK and just put on a pallet and shipped out to me.

Are you going to keep the thread you made invisible totaly off the forum ? Regarding the complaint I made about an Adler 205-370 machine I bought from Andreas Kern at SIECK in Germany, You have choosen to keep it off the forum, is that how you are going to keep my thread? off the forum. regards Name: adler205 UserName: adler205 IP Address: 94.172.7.184 Email Address: cimino30@yahoo.com

I bought an Adler 205-370 machine from Andreas Kern at SIECK in Germany, firstly the machine came to me as NOT completely working with a part missing, timing out, there were other problems with the machine as well, although I started a thread on here to warn people buying from this dealer the Moderators took the thread off. To cut a long story short, it does not do the job..

I made a complaint about a dealer I bought an Adler 205 machine from, a dealer in Germany. I had 3 pages in my thread, WHY HAVE YOU DELETED all of my thread ? Name: adler205 UserName: adler205 IP Address: 94.172.7.184 Email Address: cimino30@yahoo.com

I have a sample of leather Weaver company sent me, it was done on the Adler 205-370 machine using the harness foot, it measures 21mm thick and they told me I'll have no problems doing 20mm. You see where I'm coming from now ? I hear all kinds of things about the Adler 205-370, some say it can do 20mm all day and some say you will have problems. I guess I have to buy one, use it untill it brakes, fix it then use it untill it brakes again and keep going.

Thanks Bob, it looks like the heavier duty machine would be the Adler 120, do you know anyone who has one for sale ? thank you

I have just joined today, what a great forum. I need advise on sewing machines. I need to know which machine is more suitable for very thick leather stitching, up to 20-21mm thick, an Adler 205-370 with an Efka DC 1550 and a speed reducer or an Adler 120 with an Efka DC 1550 and a speed reducer. Thanks everyone