Cobra Class 4 Premium

[Cobra Class 4 Premium]

On 12/6/2023 at 12:10 AM, bladegrinder said:

I have the Cowboy 4500 version I bought from Bob at Toledo industrial a while back and I'm loving it. I would recommend the narrow plate for one thing, that's about all I've added to my machine.

As for threads, all I've run so far is 277 but Pretty much all I make so far is knife sheaths and holsters. I keep it oiled up good and wipe the feet and needle area before running it. the bobbin holds a lot

of thread, no worries there.  I don't know if you have experience with sewing machines, I never touched one before I got mine so there was quite a learning curve but I feel comfortable running it now.

I just glued up a LOT of scrap leather and got to it. I put 3/4" of glued up leather under this thing and it stitched it right up.

Probably the thing I kept messing up most was not double checking the forward-reverse lever position before I got to stitching, but thinking about it now I normally start and finish both in reverse so I don't have a problem there anymore but I make sure to look first anyway! that and turning corners before the bobbin thread was picked up. now I go really slow turning or even use the hand wheel at that point.

Speaking of the hand wheel...my machine came with a brake, looks like a Kia brake pad inside the motor, when you step on the pedal it releases the brake, a little more pressure and the motor starts running.

I took the brake pad out, it's easy, otherwise you can't turn the hand wheel with out stepping on the pedal.

you can do a search here for 441 machines and find a ton of info. I wish I'd have bought mine years ago I hand stitched thick leather for over 30 years, I recently retired, moved to the woods,,built a new shop and decided it was time for a machine.

 

Where did you order the narrow plate for this machine.  I have had a hard time finding them.

[Hello from North Carolina]

Hi from Monroe, NC just southeast of Charlotte.  would love to meet and get to know/learn from others here in the CLT area if we may want to coordinate a time to meet at one of the local breweries or the like?