My attempt to enter the machine sewing world

[Tio]

Bought a cheap walking foot machine, built a table and tried to sew a wallet.  Didn’t work so good.

[Tio]

Bought a table with servo motor, better results.  Still wants to run away from me.  Ordered a 45 mm pulley for the motor and a 6 inch pulley for the machine.  Hopes this gives me the slow speed control I’m looking for.  I’ll try and post pics when I’m done.

[toxo]

Getting there. Could go a lot bigger than 6" on the pulley. Mine is almost twice that at 270mm and gives one stitch at a time if I want. You can make a new belt from a strip of leather to get the size for a new one.

[Tio]

I thought about a 10 inch for the machine, but the 45mm and 6 inch gives me about a 3.37:1 reduction.  Everything I’ve read says 3.4:1 is the number I’m looking for.

[Wyowally]

If they started a forum for "first time attempts" yours would be one the better ones. I'm not sharing mine......

[toxo]

2 minutes ago, Tio said:

I thought about a 10 inch for the machine, but the 45mm and 6 inch gives me about a 3.37:1 reduction.  Everything I’ve read says 3.4:1 is the number I’m looking for.

That would of course depend on the speed of the machine in the first place but I'll leave the numbers to you. Not my forte but I've done this on two machines now and I know what works for me.

[toxo]

Take no notice of the sewing but check the speed.

 

[Tio]

Got the pulleys installed and man what a difference!  It doesn’t run away from me.  I shot a video, but it’s too big to upload.

[Tio]

On 3/15/2022 at 7:22 PM, toxo said:

Getting there. Could go a lot bigger than 6" on the pulley. Mine is almost twice that at 270mm and gives one stitch at a time if I want. You can make a new belt from a strip of leather to get the size for a new one.

It’s waaay better, but I should have gone 8 inch on the machine.  It will work for now, but I definitely see a larger pulley sometime in my future.

[Dwight]

I sewed for years on a Tippmann Boss . . . and did not realize how really slow I did sew with that thing.

I finally figured out how to make my Cowboy 4500 go REALLLLLLLY slow . . . and we are doing a lot better together now.

I doubt if I'll ever get it up to the fastest setting . . . my sewing ability is just not there.

I can watch the needle go down . . . down . . . down . . . down . . . and finally contact the leather . . . then down and down and down . . . 

I like that kind of control.

May God bless,

Dwight