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Does anyone have a source for the T-banding that edges our store-bought tables? You know... the plastic/pvc/rubber strip that protects us from snagging our high-dollar double knit custom designer slacks that we all wear whilst realizing our creative endeavors at the sewing machine?

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Someone posted this website address in a thread I was reading during the last week ,when "catching up" on threads in 2015..

Think this is what you mean ..

https://www.t-molding.com/

HTH :) Mike

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Thanks Mikesc,,, they have 1" 1/2 and 2"... our table tops are 1" 9/16 or 1" 5/8 :(. Some company was selling exact lengths just for industrial sewing tables but we can't find them now.

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  On 2/26/2016 at 5:40 AM, Ole South said:

Thanks Mikesc,,, they have 1" 1/2 and 2"... our table tops are 1" 9/16 or 1" 5/8 :(. Some company was selling exact lengths just for industrial sewing tables but we can't find them now.

Get the next size bigger, install it and then use a dremel or a router flush cut bit to clean it up, the same way you would do laminate.

Edit: Here ya go:

http://www.outwatercatalogs.com/lg_display.cfm/page/31/catalog/Master_Catalog_Vol_42

http://charterindustries.com/products/t-molding/

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Thanks Tink your search kung fu is good!! Outwater seems to have the ones... 3 colors. This works for one type of table top 1 5/8 " with a 5/8" offset slot ... some tops have 2 slots 1/2" down and 1/2" up.

Considered buying and routing as you suggested... works for me but my buddy has machines strung out across the state that can't have the noise and dust a trim router/dremel creates and the offset slot is an issue for the T-molding products as the slot keeper is centered. A brand new plywood top costs him around $100... after buying and hand fitting re-banding old comes close to that. The benefit of re-banding is that he can do an in-place repair/upgrade w/o tearing down and remounting everything. Also... some of these are in high end couture shops... can't snag a $2000 dress.

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I searched for 40mm banding figuring there was something in metric land close which led me to those two links.

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Try contacting Bill's Sewing in Hildebrand. NC. Great place to deal with. They manufacture table tops for sewing machines as well. Telephone number is

1-800-4455657. Ask for Jones Decker.

glenn

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Rockler sells it

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@Colt: Rockler only carries up to 3/4" wide with centered ribbing... our tables are 1 9/16"-1 5/8" thick AND the ribbing is not centered; it's a 5/8" drop from the table top.

@Shoepatcher: got a call into Jones... waiting for a reply

So far the closest match is Outwater Tinker's link above but looks like that's a minumum 250' order @ $.44/ft. Comes in three colors, Black, Brown & White.

Thanks everyone!

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You can find the T-molding at drdanessmh.com/klegstands in 12 ft roles.

Install the new T-molding and then use a new razor blade to cut off the extra T-molding on the top and bottom of the table and you're done.

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This is an older post, but an interesting topic.  I did find 1-5/8" wide T-molding at tmolding.com 

Colors available are white or black.

You have to re-rout a centered slot in the table, but that's easy to do if you have a router.  It requires a .080" slot cutter, which is available from Whiteside machine and Amazon etc.  The benefit is that the edging is only 85 cents per foot, with a 5 foot minimum order.  

It might not help you if you only plan on restoring one table, but if you do a couple of projects it quickly pays for itself.  I find a need for t-molding wrapped craft tables and shop fixtures, so for me it was easy to justify a specialty router bit ($10 for the arbor, and $20 for the .080" slot cutter).  

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If anybody needs to work (create dust) in a dust-free environment, get somebody to hold the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner right near the router, saw, drill, dremel etc. 

Kindest regards

Brian

 

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All power tools, except power drills, for the UK market have a vacuum cleaner attachment tube integral with the machine body. But I think its better to have an oppo holding the vac sucker tube near the work

Al speling misteaks aer all mi own werk..

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  On 2/26/2016 at 3:00 AM, Ole South said:

Does anyone have a source for the T-banding that edges our store-bought tables? You know... the plastic/pvc/rubber strip that protects us from snagging our high-dollar double knit custom designer slacks that we all wear whilst realizing our creative endeavors at the sewing machine?

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this have:https://edgebandingmanufacturer.com/product-category/pvc-edge-banding/

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