reddevil76 Posted June 26, 2012 Report Posted June 26, 2012 Last night my friend and I were fiddling with this Sunstar KM-560 which he bought used. The knee lifter was obviously not original, and had been screwed to the table with a crude assortment of timber pieces as spacers. This tells me the swing leverage is too short, and the previous owner had tried to compensate for that. Due to the timber spacers, and the limited length of the wood screws, about 2", there is only about 0.3" screw threaded into the table top. The constant lifting has caused the entire assembly to loosen. We removed the spacers, and adjusted the shaft contact point and eventually got the knee lifter to be able to lift about 3/4 of the distance that the lever is able to lift. This is still fine.. except.... now the knee lifter can lift the above distance when the machine is stationary. But when mid sewing, it just slightly budges the pressor foot. My question is, when setting the knee lifter, is there a particular position for the needle to be at? Quote
dirtclod Posted June 26, 2012 Report Posted June 26, 2012 I set mine to where the foot is all the way down no matter where the needle is. Quote
reddevil76 Posted June 26, 2012 Author Report Posted June 26, 2012 I set mine to where the foot is all the way down no matter where the needle is. Hmm.. That's what we did. I'll try fiddling with it again when I visit him... Quote
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