Anyone Have Experience With A Non Walking Foot Industrial Roller Foot?

[Gregspitz]

looking to see if a roller foot flatbed exists for making watch straps and getting VERY close to the edge on some straps

if anyone does this or has a comment..let it rip

thanks

[Art]

Ok,

This seems like Deja Vu all over again. Didn't you or someone ask this a couple of weeks back?

Sooooo, here we go again.

In the used department:

Singer 31-15 with a roller foot.

Singer 110 with roller foot but you have to be cognizant of the gearset thing for stitch length

In the New Department:.

Cobra 5550 BB BB stands for Big Bobbin (not the Big Bopper who some of us may fondly remember), comes with roller foot

Juki 5550 with a roller foot

Techsew 5550 RF comes with the roller foot

A Roller Foot for most of the above costs around $30

Don't forget to check with Bob at Toledo Industrial or Gregg at Keystone Industrial as they both will know what you need and may have it in stock (new and used) at a good price.

Art

[Gregspitz]

I was not the one that asked this before..I tried to look for anything like this question before and did not find anything..thank you for your response.

[Art]

It seems like all of these forum systems use search algos from the dark ages (that is the 1980s for PCs). I've even had DECLARED keywords fail to return results. I'm sure it is just a matter of horsepower. A good powerful search engine would require an index that for a site this size at the very least a separate server. The boss ain't going to go for that anytime soon.

Art

[Gregspitz]

Thank you again!

[LumpenDoodle2]

Yes, I've searched for threads I know exist, but don't always come up in a search. But I do understand that running these forums and updating the system isn't the cheapest (or easiest) pastime to have.

Anyway, I'm curious whether you could adapt one of these wheel 'feet' to be used on a bog standard industrial machine.

[Art]

Well, not on a big walking foot machine, but there might be something available for a drop feed machine. The problem is that the big machine and it's feet are made to handle big heavy material, and the wheel machine has a very very small area where the rubber hits the road so to speak. So that might not be a commonly asked for modification. The industrial guys like Toledo and Keystone would know though.

Art

[Colt W Knight]

It seems like all of these forum systems use search algos from the dark ages (that is the 1980s for PCs). I've even had DECLARED keywords fail to return results. I'm sure it is just a matter of horsepower. A good powerful search engine would require an index that for a site this size at the very least a separate server. The boss ain't going to go for that anytime soon.

Art

I was on a big guitar forum, and the search function was about worthlless. Once the site got really big, they switched over to a google powered search and you could dig up all kinds of cool stuff all the way back to when the forum started.

[Northmount]

You can do google searches limited to this site by appending site:leatherworker.net to your search string. Google has the big servers with many many many sites fully indexed. So for anyone that isn't finding the built in search function adequate, try Google.

The syntax used above works on any site. Be aware though, that areas that are not public will not be indexed. For example, you can't view pictures without being logged in, so if your know the pictures name, you won't find it in the Google search.

Tom

[Wizcrafts]

I have a roller foot conversion set for my Singer 31-15 straight stitch machine. It consists of replacing the feed dog, throat plate and presser foot. Once set, you can place the bottom-right edge of the (angled) wheel directly to the left of the needle's point of entry. You get a direct view of where the needle is going to enter the work.

Caveats:

1. You'll probably need to screw down the top pressure spring more than is needed for a flat foot with the same work.
2. The angle of the roller sometimes needs to be adjusted for different thicknesses (the roller is beveled).
3. The bottom of the face plate may interfere with the lifted position of the roller and could require you to raise it a bit for the foot to lift completely out of the way..
4. Thread tensions may need to be loosened a bit on both the top and bottom.
5. There are different diameters of roller feet.

Issue #3 won't apply to a factory built roller foot machine.

[Art]

Tom,

Talk about speed of light. Your hack to use the google search on leatherworker.net is slicker than frog snot. It is WOW fast and finds just about everything matching the search criteria. I won't have to use the leatherworker.net search here again. Again, thanks.

Art