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You wouldn't happen to have a picture of that shuttle would you?  Just curious, as I too have a somewhat unusual shuttle that came with one of my Landis #1s, although there is a standard tension spring on mine.

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This is the first Landis I have ever worked on.. I have no idea if this is a "regular" shuttle or not. I'm just going on what I've been told

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Your shuttle is very much like mine!  Nobody that I've ever shown it to has seen another like it. It would be interesting to know the history;  was that an upgrade offered at some point in time by Landis?  Unfortunately there is very little information out there on the history of these machines.  It appears from the pictures that the screw to regulate the bobbin tension is missing, and part of the tension spring has been broken off.  That area of the shuttle can really take a beating by a careless operator.  Some shuttles had no tension springs at all, just a series of holes to run the thread through in order to set the tension.  I don't know if those came original that way from Landis, or if they were manufactured in later years as replacement shuttles, long after Landis quit handling parts for these machines.  At any rate, that type of shuttle was a poor design, IMO.  Please keep us updated on what Eli does with your shuttle.  I have several extras that need some work before they could be used.

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Spoke to Eli this evening...said my shuttle would have been non- operational the way it was. Sometimes you would have had tension, at other times the bobbin thread would have "freewheeled". He installed a tension screw and a spring. He's sending it back- we'll see if that was my issue.

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