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Recently in a post on these sewing machines Solar LeatherMachines, kindly put up a link to their webpage where you could find an English version manual of these sewing machines. http://www.solar-leather.com/supporthelp/ I have been considering making up a narrow dog foot and throat plate to do the finer leather jobs. I tried the narrow slotted plate without feed dog and found several problems, one being that the stitch length dropped back considerably which was not such a big problem but the reverse suddenly went to making no sense at all. I went looking all over the place to find a solution before going to the trouble to make them when I came across this interesting bit on the last page (page 21) in the Instructions Manual & Illustrated Parts Catalogue #7441-09-0092 Narrow feed dog: work together with 7441-01-0064, for sewing very small borders on hard material, like suit case, furniture, instrumental cases, chairs etc. 7441-01-0064 Narrow throat plate: work together with 7441-09-0092, for sewing very small borders on hard material, like suit case, furniture, instrumental cases, chairs etc. I have not been able to find any pictures or diagrams of these parts and was hoping someone here may have a set they could post a picture of or have some information about. Because of the large drop of the dog foot in between stitches I have found that when stitching close to the edge that the job sinks down into the hole and ends up going along like a drunken rocking horse making it quite difficult to keep all lined up nicely. When the edge guide is up close the job wants to come back up and lift the guide which then wrecks the edge coating as well. I have an urgent order to get out this coming week for some personal alarm pouches for one of our correctional centres and this problem showed up whilst I got into stitching them up so I have taken a few pictures to help see the problem with the standard feet I am using. It looks like I will have to sand back and re edge now.The thickness combined is a bit over 4mm or around 10oz and the thread is 20m or 138 if you like and needle is Schmetz size 23 794LR. I hope that someone here can shed a little light on this and also I would like to ask who else would like a narrow feed dog and throat plate set. Regards Brian