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DrmCa

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  1. Someone gave me a present of a few dozen 1 1/2" latigo straps thinking that I could use them for making belts.

    They have these strange linear marks on them. They mostly run parallel but at different intervals, along the length of the strap. Here, at this end, they are tight but further left they get more sparse.

    Are they wrinkles?

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  2. Sellers have a tendency of selling their servo motor on eBay and then slapping their old clutch motor back on, prior to selling the machine. Just like they sell floor mats and roof racks, before selling a car.

    The price sounds about right.

    Plates can be found on Aliexpress quite cheap. I know a few sellers, CKPSMS, Germany Quality Store and Evernice come to mind, if you are agreeable to wait for a month or so. Otherwise GSM Sewing is the way to go.


  3. 17 hours ago, Garyak said:

    or on Facebook

    It is just too bad that your group and some others (like, Anet 3D printer USB driver group) only have presence on FB because I consider its creator a criminal and refuse to aid and abet him by using his services. Hacking into his school's computer and seeding FB's database with stolen personal information of unsuspecting minors is still a crime, in my books, even though nobody else seems to care. Not to start a flame war, just saying.


  4. The worst thing to move was my Kansai Special coverstitch: heavy and mounted to the table. I basically immobilized the hole table inside a minivan, by tying it down with spare seatbelts.

    Light-weight heads like Pfaff 545 can be taken off and safely transported between the 1st and 2nd row seats, on the floor, wrapped in corrugated cardboard or old blankets. Old sofa cushions help as well.

    Since it is a dry head you can also lay the whole table on its side as long as the trunk permits.


  5. 1 hour ago, nylonRigging said:

    Always push down little bit on the Reverse Lever, to release pressure on that Dial spring/pin , so it turns smooth easy when changing stitch length's

    A neat trick to remember! The problem is likely that mine is too easy to turn due to the lack of the prong on the pin.

    I cannot see anything but a dark mark on my dial. Certainly no wear exists.

     

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  6. My impression is that those who buy them from China wholesale and re-sell them locally actually do a pretty good job of QC. They weed out apparently defective units and sell only those that work. If they would not, then they would have too many returns and negative feedback. I personally would never buy this unit from China directly, but since it was already present in my city, I knew that I could return it in the worst case scenario.


  7. On my machine, the stitch regulator pin is broken. It does not have the thin section that lives inside the spring (pointed at by the arrow), and its tapered end that contacts the regulator knob is worn. I slightly sharpened it, on a lathe, and it holds slightly better ever since.

    When I go into reverse, the stitch length knob sometimes turns all by itself. I lived with this issue for quite some time because I can simply keep an eye on the knob and turn it back, but since I was ordering parts from College Sewing anyway, I bought the replacement spring, with the idea in mind to turn my own pin. The problem is that now that I compare the old and new springs, the new one from CS is shorter and weaker.

    I cannot understand how a shorter and weaker spring can keep the knob from turning any better.

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  8. I got one, and it stitches, out of the box. Maybe I got lucky. Never tried it on the supplied "tripod" and instead mounted it on my own wooden base. There is a picture somewhere around here.

    Since I got it and sewed it off, I never used it and am still contemplating either buying a copper and chromium plating kits and plating some parts myself or taking it apart and sending it to be chrome plated because all that is not painted is bare steel and doomed to rust.

    I got this machine locally, from an eBay seller in my city, and it only cost me about US$150, at my door, so I do not see a point in buying from China directly.

    Today it is even CD$20 or US$15 cheeper than what I had paid: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/193082243092

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