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Wiz beat me to the punch here, but I found specs on a 289rb-hlp-1 that says 5/8" max lift under the presser foot and it uses 135x17 needles. That should give the next person looking a little more info to make a decision. A grand seems a little steep to me anyway. Maybe.

Is the needle the right size for the thread? There's a chart here: https://tolindsewmach.com/thread-chart.html

I don't have a significant lag most times but very often I get a "page can't be reached" message and the page loads a few seconds later. Both on my home DSL and mobile 5G. You may recall a few months back, we had a DDOS attack and it took the Boss a few days to get it straightened out. Maybe we're still being hammered and she's just filtered most of it out.

I noted the original post to alert any browsers to the new price, Beautiful looking stuff.

Amazon or ebay has a wide variety of them dirt cheap. I just grabbed a few magnetic based, flexible necked lights. If you have a servo motor, the box might even have a plug so it comes on with the machine.

The easiest is just to reply to your own post. If you like, once you do that I can go edit your original post to refer to the new and improved price. The edit window is only a short time, thanks to the spammers. They like to come back and edit their garbage in later on.

Hi Lee, I suppose somebody may be willing to provide phone instruction. A more immediate solution should be one of the many tutorials available online: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=pancake+knife+sheath+tutorial&t=brave&ia=web A specific question here usually gets a good response. I'm going to flip this over to the knife sheath section and see what kind of response you get. Also going to tweak the title.

Yeah, I saw it after I hit the submit button ... 😱

A site search for LU-563 turns up 18 pages of reading material. https://leatherworker.net/forum/search/?&q=111w156&page=2&quick=1&item=132320&search_and_or=or&sortby=relevancy

That looks like a win to me. It's a pretty close clone of the Singer 111w156, if not identical. Parts and information are going to be abundant and easily found. Look for the user instructions. If the 156 isn't easily found, the 111w155 will be close enough for the oiling points. You know that journey of a thousand miles that begins with a single step? You just took that step. Welcome to the rabbit hole. EDIT: Here's the 156 manual. It'll get you started. 111w156.pdf

Ask the client to measure his pens.

Well, the good news is that you probably don't have to take it all apart. and you might just be able to oil it and go. Some pictures would help us to to evaluate it. Maybe a video walk around. Do you have the whole machine, table,motor and all? Or just a head unit? For starters, I'd oil it everywhere metal moves against metal. All the oiling points on top, everyplace underneath that a bushing, bearing or anything else moves metal on metal. Turn it over by hand and let it sit for a day. If you have the whole setup, motor and all try running it and give it a listen. When I got my first industrial, it turned over a lot harder than any domestic i had worked with. I had no idea how tight it should have been so I erred way on the side of caution and flushed PB Blaster through everything followed by sewing machine oil. Turned it endlessly by hand trying to decide if it was too tight. I removed the internal belt so I could evaluate the top and bottom separately. After a week or so of this activity, turned out it was fine to begin with.

Red Nichols, as I recall, recommends horse butt strips. I've been trying to find the post over on the Smith & Wesson forum where he talked about it. I'll keep looking.

@BaroqueLeatherGal, you could tag @terrymac to get their attention.

It takes some research but you can find cheap servos with a start speed of 100 rpms. In my case, with the small pulley and a speed reducer, I can get down to 11 stitches/minute. There's a whole rabbit trail of slow speed versus cooling. But I think at the hobby level we're not running these things for prolonged periods of time, so it's probably not a giant issue. 11 spm is ridiculously slow.