Binding with the 341!

[toxo]

I'm sure I'm not the first to ask this question but this binding business seems to be more complex that it needs to be so I must ask this most knowledgeable hive how to do it.

I can get a needle plate and feed dog from China for a very reasonable price and I can fashion a presser foot out of an existing one.but I'm still waiting for an answer as to how to attach a tape folder to the sliding bobbin cover which has no holes in it.

I've come up with an idea but I have to ask you guys if you think it will work.

Instead of mounting a folder on the bobbin cover, I'm thinking of mounting it on a steel plate and then fixing the steel plateto the flatbed attachment which is rigid enough to work. Here's an idea of how it would look with a piece of white card where the steel plate would go.

What's the verdict?

 

[Northmount]

17 hours ago, toxo said:

What's the verdict?

Moved your post to leather sewing machines

[kgg]

19 hours ago, toxo said:

What's the verdict?

I approached the problem with inline binders by installing 3mm brass inserts for mounting in a 3D printed table top. I think you could do something similar with the table top you have. ( drill / tap or drill and press in a nut)

kgg

Edited Tuesday at 06:35 PM by kgg

[toxo]

3 hours ago, kgg said:

I approached the problem with inline binders by installing 3mm brass inserts for mounting in a 3D printed table top. I think you could do something similar with the table top you have. ( drill / tap or drill and press in a nut)

kgg

Thanks Keith. I've just discovered swing away binders. Will probably still have to do some fettling but they seem to be a good idea. You could mount one far enough back so that when not using it you can just swing it away and leave it there instead of demounting it. Still some more learning to do, the binders that I have are not mounted on anything and are meant to be mounted to any system according to what width you want to use. know nothing about these swing away binders but it looks like the whole thing (system & binder are fixed so you'd need a different set up if you want to change the tape width, I might be wrong on this, more learning to do.