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Hi all, I'm in the market for a free arm cylinder for sewing my leather bags. I definitely want a walking foot, and came across the SEW LINE 2603 (or 2605) CYLINDER WALKING FT with REVERSE on ebay for $1300. Ive never heard of the brand, and of course it's less expensive than the juki's and consews, which is ideal for my "starter machine" budget is under $1500. It would be my first free arm- right now I have a Singer 211G. I want to make sure its a decent investment for the price.... thoughts!? Thanks everyone!

I dropped into a local alteration shop today and found one of these SewLine SL-29 patchers with a servo motor. A knock off of a 29k71 I'm assuming. The little lady that owned the shop said she'd had it over a year (ebay purchase) and had never been able to get it to sew. Breaking top thread, dropped stitches ect... She said she'd had three sewing machine repairmen out but all were unsuccessful. I got it sewing, incorrect threading, bad bobbin, wrong tension everywhere. Had to slow the motor down as slow as it would go and jury-rig an actuator limiter. It won't do anywhere near 500 stm... 200 max as near as I can tell before it begins to drop stitches. Okay here's where I need our experts advice: The timing is marginal at best, eye is scarcely ascending as the hook centers on the needle scarf. I've never worked on a patcher before but it seems pretty straight forward except... I can't get the timing screw to turn!!! This is the screw head visible through the hole in the base... yes/no? I spoke with an experience industrial sewing machine repairman (the last guy to work on it) and he said he couldn't get it to budge either. Am I missing something here? Also, the handwheel has a v-belt size groove in it... is there a tire that is supposed to go in there? Other patchers I've seen all have been solid, no groove.

Hi Everyone. I am new here, and have been working with leather for probably 20-years or more--mostly just using cowboy gear. My wife does carving and I do custom saddles and stamping. We are moving from Texas and have an almost new Sew Line GA5 head, table, 1725 clutch motor and bobbin winder all assembled and ready to go to work--asking $850.00 and used it maybe 10-times. We keep it oiled and in top shape--it is literally like new. We'd like to sell it as assembled and we live in Sealy, Texas--about 20-minutes west of Katy and 40-minutes west of the southern edge of Houston. This is a great machine with a huge shuttle hook, sharp adjustable height walking dogs that won't mar your tooling leather projects and we sewed up to 3/4" of heavy skirting with it and it did a superior job. I have lots of pictures if you are interested. My email is mikesuemoore@outlook.com and we are moving out of state in a couple weeks and would really like to see this very nice set up, go to someone who can use it. We bought it for our own tack needs and never did commercial work with it, which is why we only used it a few times. We ended up buying a huge upright stand up machine because it goes through about 1 1/4" of skirting which we needed for our saddle skirts--glued sheep's lining made for a bit much for this GA5. So it has never been abused or improperly used. You can also call me if you want and I'd be happy to answer any/all questions you may have. I am an ex-ranch cowboy, educated corrective Farrier and all around pain in the ass, but I am mellowing out with age and so my wife was the only woman to tame me--this is her machine. She does all the stitching. 979-885-7187 This is listed on Craig's List and we will sell to the first serious buyer--we can only help you load it because we are short on time--moving in a couple weeks. Thanks guys.