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I always add a small drop of blue Locktite into the inside (female) threads. Then, put just enough pressure with very light touch of loose adjusted small vise grips to the edge of female side of the screw, so you will not mar the screw and lightly tighten. Never had any problems.

25 sounds great!

Make sure the needle is starting the up-stroke, before you make the turn. (even just barely starting up)

You are very near Leather Machine Co., in Ontario, Ca. I have 2 of their machines. A Cobra 4 and a Class 26. The Class 26 is absolutely superb for anything leather up to 3/8" thick. (About 24 oz.) It will handle up to #138 thread. Both fabric and leather needles are readily available. The Cobra 4 is mostly for heavy duty work, up to about 3/4"-7/8 ". I have dealt with Steve and Dave, both are great!! I have found them both very honest and offer superb customer service. jr. I would contact them at: Leather Machine Co, Inc. Warehouse 2141 E. Philadelphia St. “U” Ontario, California. 91761 Business Hours: 7 am to 3:15 pm (PST), Monday thru Friday Contact: Customer Service 7 am to 3:15 pm (PST), Monday thru Friday 866-962-9880 For technical or mechanical issues please email: info@leathermachineco.com

My Sailrite will not sew anything very well over 6 oz. Anything thicker releases top thread tension because the tension mechanism is tied the foot height. I fought this for nearly 2 years, 2012-2014. I never got a response from Sailrite after several e-mails. I guess it was I was sewing leather, not Sunbrella? And the serrated feed dog is a huge issue. Last year I bought a Cobra 26 t go with my Class 4. No Regrets.

Try using a liberal amount on a clean cotton rag or white terry cloth towel. You can use quite a bit on the darkest spots while rubbing lightly and rinsing the cloth often. If this does not help considerably, dipping might be the only solution. Bear in mind you will not be able to get all the dye out or even be very consistent. But it may lighten up the worst areas. When you are ready to retry the dying use a very diluted color and apply the dye solution with a good sponge not the dauber that comes with the dye. Hand dying is a practiced art on large areas. Practice on scraps until you get the coverage and tints you want. Springfield leather used to have a series of YouTube videos on dye and dying techniques. I have not tried to view them, lately. Try to find them, they helped me a lot. Good luck jr

Friebing's dye reducer smells exactly like isopropyl (rubbing) alcohol, so I use the store bought Isopropyl. It comes in 75%-78% alcohol solution, at Walmart, and costs less than a dollar per pint, as opposed to $4.00 for 4oz. of Friebing's. You can dilute with water. The alcohol/water mix will dry the leather out when dry. I then treat the leather with Friebing's Aussie Leather Conditioner , it has never failed me. Good luck! jr

Less than 200 visits to website in the last 24 hours. Just crickets. Where have all the followers (sic) gone? jr

Goodbye, Very SORRY TO LOSE YOU. Another one bites the dust. I just checked the views, in the last 24 hours there were only 219, sad. The POLITICS are killing this entire forum!!!!!! jr

I think it is the threading guide that screws into the threaded hole on the top of the machine and is the first tension guide location before you get down to the tensioner assembly on the front of the machine.

A few years ago, there were constantly well over 350 member views, daily. Lately, the number has dropped steadily. I am not a terribly active contributor, but I do scan the threads daily. It seems to me some of the responses are terse, short and have lost the helpfulness they used to have. I feel I am losing a good friend with helpful insight to a lot of common problems. The naysayers and political wonks seem to be winning and ruining the entire culture. My 2 pennies. jr

Yep! That worked, no idea why, but I can reach the banners on Mozilla. Another Windows 10 mystery, I guess.

I have and do run a complete virus scan, twice a day. The system comes up clean. I do not play any games and empty all temp files daily. This has been going on for nearly a month. I can reach all of the advertisers by going to their websites, I just cannot link from the banners.???

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