Miquel

Thanks Constabulary, at least have bought some S points, different sizes. Itis apity that can not buy the LL points for check It, but S points would be fine.

'Thanks Bob, very happy with the machine. I have It almost ready. Whit suspended guide, the extra large handle for presser up the, flat needle plate, feed dog without teeth...Almost ready. Only need some needles. So difficult to buy needles in Spain, only can find LR points and need to buy minimum 50 needles... I would like to buy some S and LL points for make straight stitches, but difficult and must to buy 100 needles per size...So, a small fortune if want to buy some sizes too... This is the beast:

I have enlarged the arm adding a piece of metal. Now the lever law is working efficiently. Of course, must to make a hole on the table for pass the chain. Now, with the feet can go up the presser foot without any effort. More control too, due that no need to make big effort and you know exactly what amount of strenght are using. Before too much strenght and loss the control, then the chain can be broken... I just put again the stronger spring on the lever foot assembly. No need to put a weaker one. Just a little bit of work, no need to make anything with the machice, just unbolt two bolts and re-bolt again with the added arm.

Sorry Bob, i see now better your photo and doing this you have enlarged a little bit the arm, It's a small enlarge but all enlargment there is a positive help.

Have neither problem with the machine nor the dealer. All is Ok. I am just new with the machine and need to know how operate It. I think That I broken the chain because despite that arrives to the top I still was pushing the pedal. So ,certainly I think that needed too much strenght for go up, but I have changed the spring for the other one, still strong but a little bit less than the other and goes better. Just need too to be familiar with the machine using it. Nothing else. Besides, i haven't the standard table from the CB3200 , I have another one. So, need to locate all the things for develop a good job. The machine is great and all is ok. The dealer too. No problem with him. Refer welding this piece, well, this is not bad, but there is not any problem. Would be better for save strenght to enlarge this small arm, but if the lenght is the same, then, same strength need to do welded or with two bolts. Finally this part is working as a unique piece...This is my feeling.

Hi, thanks for your replies. Yes, If the presser litf is up by hand, then the presser foot lift is free. I have contacted the dealer. Have said me that the CB3200 model have a different system than the cb4500. The Cb4500 have a excentrical system for the foot lift . The CB3200 haven't. This is why is more difficult to up the presser by foot with the cb3200. Said me that i can remove the spring of the presser system, oil all the mechanism , and check wether all the movement goes freely without the spring. Then, I can replace the spring for another spring included in the machine. This one is weaker than the other. So, probably, now, the problem is that the spring is very strong and need to put a lot of strenght for go up. Besides i always have had machines with excentrical system for up the presser foot( by feet), so, Need to take confidence and skill for give no more strenght than the thing need. Otherwise the chain will fly on!!!!

Hi everyone, Finally I have bought a Hightex / Cowboy CB3200. I have a problem with the presser lift Foot. With the handle, I can go up the presser feet with no problem, but with the foot lift I have problems. So much strenght for go up. Even i have broken the chain two times, so sad... Anyone know what happen??? Any Suggestion???

Hi Pinto, thanks for your reply. So, you think that your motor can go slower than 500 R.P.M ??? Maybe the slower is around 200??? Or even less than 200???

Hi Pinto, do you know If your motor is slower than 500 R.P.M ??? Do you know how slow can work your motor??? Would like to know wether your servomotor type is slower than the brushless chinese servomotors...¿¿??? I can find this kind of motor in UK , I am Actually buying servos, in Spain, that goes to 500 R.P.M. I need to add a reducer pulley system for go slower. Hope your kind of servo save me to use the pulley system.

Many thanks, I am going to check the links.

Hi Constabulary, thanks for your reply. It seem so difficult to find where buy the S or R needle point. All the shops that i have finded have the LR point... Can you tell me please where you buy the S or R point needles??? Best regards¡¡

Hi dudes, I have a new machine, It is a 45K clon, made in Spain. The machines goes well but I don't like the stitch. I would like to make it more straight. I am adjunting tensions, but I can achieve better than the stitches that show bellow photos. I am using 2,5 to 3 mm thickness leather. The needle is 160 sizes ( I put a photo) , I am using Gutermann tera 10 thread. Any suggestions for improve the stitch? I would like to be more straight, Thanks in advance.

Thanks for the replies. I will try to be sure about that, i am going to buy An edge guide roller, and IT seem that diferent models have diferent way for fix the engine... A mistake hereu would bé a bad bussines...

Anyone knows wich model is exactly?

Hi Folker, Finally i did not buy the Claes, i was woried if i need some replaces. Today i have bought the Consew. I have found IT for 500 euros, with clutch motor, but goes Very slow, even still Can change the pulley for An smaller one. I think that now, for me, would bé better use thinner thread with the consew than goes for a more vintage màchine.

I like too the old machines, in fact, I was interested in buy an old Claes machine similar as one that You had, surely you remember i asked you about this machine. But I was worried in order to find bobbins, shuttles If i need...Besides this particular machine that I have the possibility to buy, haven't the bobbin winder... So, maybe an old machine would be good for me, can handle thick thread, but I am too afraid to buy it, for these reasons... Maybe a singer brand would be easier to find replaces, but I can't find here, in Spain, easily. I have too another machine in mind, It is a Global, but I don't know exactly the model, the seller don't know too. DEspite that It is an arm machine, I think that I can fix easily a table to be it flat and sew easily the guitar strap. The only thing that I don't know is what thread can handle...

Hi my friend, thanks for your reply. I would Like to use 207 thread up and 138 down. Less than this i don t Like so much... For me ser speed is not so important. Even I would Like to use a servo motor, maybe with reductors pulleys too. So, i guess that this help to handle the bigger thread ( i don t know wether i am right about this point...)

Hi, I would like to ask your opinion about wich leather sewing machine would recommend me for make mainly guitar straps. I am thinking to make the guitar straps with two layers of leather, one of them around 2 mm. In the middle surely I will put some Foam. I think the thicker that I would sew is around 8 mm. But mainly would be around 6 mm. I would like to use, at least, 150 to 200 thread. I was thinking about a Consew 206RB, But I would like to have some opinions, maybe you can suggest another machine,,,Any recomendation would be very apreciated, Best regards.

Hi Constabulary, thanks for your support, the PM has been sent. I will check now your linked post, many thanks again¡¡

I attach a photo of the needle, maybe help a little bit. The needle is completely rounded on the above part. ( Not flat side, completely round)

Hi guys, anyone knows wich needle system is using these Claes Machine??? Please, see photo of the machine. As I was looking for this info and I don't find it, hope that anyone here maybe know it, thanks in advance!!!!!!

Hi Darren, thanks for your support. By now I have bought some organ needles, 130 size, 15x2 system, for leather. Still have no checked with the machine, I am in holidays just now, anyway I will check soon. I keep in mind your suggestion about the 134 needles, I think that i have several of them at home, as I have an old german 29k style machine.

Hi Matt, thanks for your reply. I will check the Needles Organ brand, Refer the yarn I will check too.

Hi my friends, my name is Miquel, I am from Spain, Near Barcelona city, I am new here, I think this is my first post, anyway I have had reading for a while several posts during the last months. I would like too to apologise if my english is not as good as I would like it to be... Anyway I will try my best. I am writing refer to this chinese cobbler machine. I bought one of them and I am trying to obtain a nice stitch. By now, the better stitch that I have achieved is this, see photo. My thinking is that "maybe" would be easier If I could use a bigger needle and a thicker yarn. The problem, If the solution would goes for this side, is that I am already using the bigger needle according with the machine specifications, and the thickest yarn that the needle allows... The needle that this machine use is a 15x2 flat bottom, 110 ( maximum comercial thickness) I attach a photo of the needle box. So, any suggestion would be very apreciate, because by now, I don't like too much the stitch, I would like too to take the maximum profit that the machine allows. Mu first thinking is that thicker needle and yarn would give me a nicer stitch, but I don't know wether I can use a bigger needle with compatibility with the machine...Thanks in advance for your comments, Miquel.