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This past week I have been extremely fortunate in finding a well maintained a 1918 Singer 29K shoe repair/patcher machine. I have to say I am in love with it, despite it's limitations, but most every machine has them.

I do know the walking foot is renowned for leaving marks on leather even with the pressure adjusted, the only new feet avaiable have an aggresive tread just like the original.

So my question is, has anyone had their walking foot tread machined / filed down ? If so how do you find it functions and are the marks left lighter? It may be that I will have to do the experiment myself, but i thought it worth asking you folks.

Thank you in advance!

-Cheyenne W

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The teeth are quite important for feeding the material. I´d try some shrinking hose before you file down the foot ;)

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  On 9/22/2015 at 3:20 PM, Constabulary said:

The teeth are quite important for feeding the material. I´d try some shrinking hose before you file down the foot ;)

I tried looking it up to no avail, what is shrinking hose? I'm guessing something that attaches to the foot temporarily

Thanks!

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I think it is called heat shrink tubing or heat shrink wrap in the US

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  On 9/22/2015 at 5:46 PM, Constabulary said:

I think it is called heat shrink tubing or heat shrink wrap in the US

That is a fantastic idea, I will give it a try, thanks again!

-Cheyenne

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I know this is kind of an old topic, but I'm going to go ahead and leave a response anyhow, for those who may be having the same problem...

I know that because the leather patchers are walking feet machines its almost impossible to grind the foot so it doesn't mark the leather and still have it feed properly (tried it and it didn't work- even was told it could never happen and I needed to get another machine or change my assembly process), but being a bit stubborn I thought there had to be a way to make it work until I could justify purchasing another sewing machine for the shop...

I really needed the capability to sew "up" a leather "tube" but work almost exclusively with veg tanned leather....for the past year I have been taping along the sides of the stitching with a thin strip of painters tape applied after all the finishing was done. But recently I have had a lot of success with a new technique....I wanted something with a little grip, but non-marring....so I grabbed some old dried up "Boogers" from the side of my glue pot, and in a very technical process ;) wrapped the foot up in them....viola! Still grips and pulls the leather through the machine, and NO MARKS! Yay! Every once in awhile I have to reapply a light coat of glue and let it dry a bit, or adjust the "boogers" but for now, its working great and saving me a TON of time. (Don't know if it matters, but I use Barge Cement)

Hope it can help someone else searching for an answer to the same problem!

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