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When I was in a pinch for a belt, I used an accessory belt from my car, sliced in 2 halves, so from 4x Vs it leaves 2 pieces with 2x Vs on each. Even if slightly cracked after being on the car engine for a few years, they still work fine for sewing machines. A V belt does not need to be a perfect fit or only 1 specific size. There is quite a bit of adjustment on the servo motor, so a slightly longer or shorter belt will work. You are looking for a 3/8 belt. Hardware stores normally have 1/2 belts that are too large and stiff. But industrial supply stores have both types.

For fairness sake, police have recently released a copy of the warrant to the widow and her lawyer. It is a 28-page warrant that details how on 2 separate occasions a 1911 handgun registered to Mr. Kotanko was found during a search of a suspected criminal. Both had serial ## milled off. Police then applied for the warrant on the basis that Mr Kotanko was a gunsmith, so he probably owned a mill, and that he could benefit from selling handguns to criminals. This ignores simple truths that thousands more hobby machinists in Canada own mills, needless to say thousand factories and fabrication shops, and that a fully-tuned competition 1911 built by Mr. Kotanko fetches $7000 any time of day, so there was zero financial interest for him to sell one in a standard configuration. They also used 2x of his criminal charges from 50 years ago as justification: one for possession of cannabis and the other for having built a flintlock pistol never proven working. 50 years ago late Mr. Kotanko was 19 years old. Both charges did not prevent him from obtaining a firearms license or gunsmith license and staying above the law and perfectly compliant for 50 years. The judge just winked and signed.

True, but most of them are too heavy for a portable setup, in my particular case. Also, sewing machine servo motors are already CCW.

Just don't do it in front of Canadian RCMP!

You really can't expect real leather to behave the same as vinyl. Try a real test piece on scrap. For bags, you want a cylinder arm and sometimes post machine. Flat bed won't cover 100% of operations.

What you miss is that good people in the US are under tremendous pressure from the scum of the world sneaking into their country. No other country in this world is overrun by millions of illegal aliens with no concept of law and order from crime-ridden countries. US people are wise to carry and entitled to that. And slap-jack is a less-than-lethal alternative for keeping the scum of the world in line. Do you prefer them just being shot instead? I would, but you probably don't.

You did not heat it high enough. It's cast iron. You can heat it as high as you wish. Then spray the stuck part with WD40 and hit. Also, dremel works on cast iron like a charm, for those who are not comfortable with the heat or blunt force.

If you know how to set it up, go for it! But for me personally I am exploring the option of using a lawnmower PMDC connected through a speed controller. PMDC allows to reverse the rotation to CCW that the Chinese patcher needs (most other motors are CW), and the controller allows to slow it down to a crawl by way of a tiny pulley. My patcher is on a portable base, so I cannot afford the weight of a full-blown servo motor, which you may very well consider.

Nice! Just the right amount of tooling for my liking. The horn is pretty stout. Is that a special purpose saddle?

Ditto! 99 can only stitch 3-5oz leather in 2 layers tops. Everything else is pushing it. We used ours to change zippers in leather jackets for quite a few years until we got the Pfaff. It used to be a torture, now it is a breeze.

Before you buy anything from out of country for tons of $$ in price and shipping cost, consider brazing the snapped part back on. It is trivial, after some basic training. All you need is a propane torch from CTC or Princess Auto (MAPP gas is better but not always readily available), a cylinder of that gas, hard silver solder (ex: A45 Silvalloy from Wolverine Joining Products) and a fire-proof surface to work on. If you make a mistake you can always re-heat and re-adjust the piece until perfect. Or you can try to find a local welder with experience in brazing.

Going out on a limb here, but does a VFD give out a pure sine wave or a bunch of sharp pulses? If the latter, then you may get away with routing the 3 phase through a transformer close to 1:1, to smooth the output back to the sine wave. The machine may not be fond of harmonic interference from the thyristors or PWMs inside the VFD, and that may be throwing E11. By the way, is E11 supposed to be thrown for overvoltage only, or for undervoltage too?

From the "official" press outlets: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/hamilton/rodger-kotanko-police-shooting-1.6252238 https://globalnews.ca/news/8383288/port-dover-gunsmith-shot-dead-toronto-police/ The family's lawyer's press release: https://www.newswire.ca/news-releases/why-did-toronto-police-shoot-and-kill-rodger-kotanko--849245861.html

What does the inscription in red say? All I see is a wallet (it's a wink smilie, not a smirk smilie)

It looks like a bottom feed machine from what I can see. It won't stitch 8oz leather, not even with a teflon foot. You may get away with a roller foot but why when you can get a walking foot machine for a little more? $300 sounds like an awful lot of $$ for a single-needle straight stitcher.

Are you certain that you are feeding 200-240 voltage? I do not mean to insult your intelligence but you did not mention whether you have a tester or not, and I do not know whether you are relying on the VFD's display.

There could be some other thin material that is strong enough to keep the pile out but easy to tear thereafter. A plastic bag? Pretty strong bags exist.

In Nov 2021 municipal police in Canada executed a search warrant in the shop of a renowned 70-year-old gunsmith, way outside of their jurisdiction. No one has seen that warrant since. The end result was that the gunsmith was shot 4 times with a rifle while he was with a customer, inside his small workshop. The name of the gunsmith is Roger Kotanko. He was the gunsmith of choice or the only gunsmith for many of the local customers, and he was known in the IPSC community as far as the US and the UK. So far the family has been stonewalled by the police. There is a Gofundme campaign to fund his civil suit for wrongful death. If you look to contribute or curious about what is known of the trajedy, just search for his last name. As I am involved in the firearms community in Canada for the past 20 years, it strikes too close to home, especially after the 2020 gun ban and the impending confiscations that it entails. Many consider his death a targeted execution, especially because cops brought their own ambulance to the scene in advance of the shooting.

I am a slow thinker, I confess! There is at least 1 other option that is though not so easy to accomplish. It is to only insert the Ds after the stitching and to close them in place. Of course it only works with pliable metals. Won't work with zinc/pot metal.

Also: https://www.thethreadexchange.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=nylon-thread-information https://www.thethreadexchange.com/miva/merchant.mvc?Screen=CTGY&Category_Code=needle_system_conversion_table

That's a lot of $$ for a cat in a sack. What sort of work are you looking to accomplish on it?

Who's the dealer for Juki?

Looks as badass as it can get. A roll of $1 coins sounds as the safest bet for all states as it passes as a wallet if SHTF. Also, it would not be confiscated if one goes to jail/prison over the fight, and they will have to return it upon release.

So close to hardware will be a challenge with any feet. There are special machines for that. If memory serves, curved needle machines should be able to do that. Otherwise change your L into I and _ or stitch by hand. If you just made 2 _ seams on each side of the hardware then stitched your I you'd be golden.

See if you can improvise a replacement out of a BIC pen spring. The size looks about right unless I am over/underestimating the diameter.