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" Sometimes buying something specific is cheaper than adapting something that's free."

True, but sometimes it's the principle.....:lol:.

Machines wot I have - Singer 51W59; Singer 331K4; Seiko STH-8BLD; Pfaff 335; CB4500.

Chinese shoe patcher; Singer 201K (old hand crank)

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17 minutes ago, dikman said:

" Sometimes buying something specific is cheaper than adapting something that's free."

True, but sometimes it's the principle.....:lol:.

Oh, I can relate to that too. ;)

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Have you explored going to a smaller drive pulley on the (clutch or servo) motor? I may have missed a post that says you did, sorry.

This will reduce the input to the sewing machine's pulley, and slow it down. Try the calculator on bricklayer.com, it will help a lot. Personally, I dropped down to a 1 7/8 inch pulley on my clutch motor, and RPM dropped to the 820 range. To finish the job, bought a "router speed control", plugged it inline, and with it bottomed out, I can sew on my Adler slow enough to count the stitches.

Counting the new pulley, belt, and speed control, I have just under 60 bucks invested.

Note-the speed control will NOT work on any motor that has capacitors. FYI

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i ended up had him made a simple reducer set up inspired by uwe's set up i found on this forum

it will be finished next week, and i'll try to post some progress later on how slow and the torque 

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