Claes patcher repair

[Samer]

Hello, I am looking for an industrial sewing machine Mechanic, who is experienced with fixing Claes Patchers, it has to be through Face Time. I contacted Landis International they could not help me with the issues, I was surprised.  Willing to pay. I’m in desperate need of having two Claes Patchers fixed. 603 952 4818. Northeast time zone.Thank you.

[Northmount]

4 hours ago, Samer said:

Hello, I am looking for an industrial sewing machine Mechanic, who is experienced with fixing Claes Patchers, it has to be through Face Time. I contacted Landis International they could not help me with the issues, I was surprised.  Willing to pay. I’m in desperate need of having two Claes Patchers fixed. 603 952 4818. Northeast time zone.Thank you.

I moved your post to leather sewing machines,  You are much more likely to get some answers here.

[Constabulary]

no facetime but I may be able to hep when you explain the problem and post some pictures. What model do you have?

Edited yesterday at 04:45 AM by Constabulary

[Samer]

I really appreciate your help. So we won’t get confused the first machine we will call machine #1 It’s not working 95% correctly. The second machine we will call machine. # 2 , which I purchased 10 years ago. I’m having timing issues with it. Since all  Claes machines are the same, I tried to adjust the timing of machine #2 to the same timing as #1 but no success.

please note the second and third photos are the same but from different sides.

[Constabulary]

well they are not all the same, thats why I asked for the model - CLAES has a long history and made patcher machine for many decades. Beside the even older "COLIBRI" and "Patent Elastic" machines they had the Model 201, RPX, 200, 8345 and 8346 - I assume you have the latest 8346, right? Just from the picture I would say you have a tension problem but no timing problem. Can you post pictures of how you have threaded the machines? I assume a loss of top tension for what ever reason.

Edited 2 hours ago by Constabulary

[Samer]

My apologies to you, I was so in a hurry to show you and tell you what was going on. I forget to send that information.

[Samer]

[Samer]

By the way, less than a year ago, I replaced the following parts. The machine was working flawlessly, but then the machine would stop completely. After looking around. A noticed the following wedges which I removed and ever since the machine were just not work well even though I put them back. I was told by Landis International these wedges are not part of the original machine. Even though I am the only owner of that machine. But then I remembered having someone work on this machine about five years ago, and the only explanation I can offer is that he must have put these wedges in there.that would be the tip of my screwdriver pointing at the end of the wedge. I’m going to take them out and show them to you.

 

[Samer]

I really appreciate your help. So we won’t get confused the first machine we will call machine #1 It’s not working 95% correctly. The second machine we will call machine. # 2 , which I purchased 10 years ago. I’m having timing issues with it. Since all  Claes machines are the same, I tried to adjust the timing of machine #2 to the same timing as #1 but no success.

please note the second and third photos are the same but from different sides.

this is where the top thread ends up and the machine just stops completely.

[Samer]

One more thing I like to inform you of. There is quite a bit of play at the end of the trip of the arm.