Singer 111w155 with Quick Rotan?

[kiddcaprix]

On 6/4/2017 at 7:08 PM, sandyt said:

I have only experience with the old quick rotan. Do you have a pic? Mine had one slow setting. Which is pretty slow and one stitch at a time if needed. After this slow setting you just have a clutch motor. Enough topics about this.

I liked the qick rotan very much. Needle up and down position makes work very easy and fast. The electronics inside looked very simple. Only a few components on a small curcuit board. Not like the efka's with al LOT of electronics inside.

If you don't want to spend extra money and want to spend time switching the quick to the singer, I would say go for it. The clutch motor on the singer is pretty useless for knive sheets. The quick would do an awsome job in the slow setting. 

Sandy.

Sandy, here are some pics of the Quick Rotan you asked for. And anyone else interesred for that matter. I ended up swaping it onto the Singer 111w. It made sense to move to that one because of the things it can do. And I am a sucker for incorporating newer(ish) technology to old equipment such as this. In doing so, i noticed the tension release plate on the presser foot  (the one that pushes on the pin that releases the thread tension) looked to be broke or really worn down. So in taking that off, I also came to the realization that the presser foot bar was bent pretty bad. I had to straighten it the best I could just to get it out. Well, now the machine is in pieces and waiting for replacement parts.  

If anyone is interested, I can show some pics or maybe a video when its all working.

Regards,

Adam

[kiddcaprix]

Well, I got the Singer all together with the Rotan on it.  Gotta say this thing is a joy to sew on now.  The ability to do a single stitch with a button push is awesome.  With a tap on the pedal, it buries the needle and allows me to get situated.  From that point I can do about a stitch a second up to 3000 spm (wont ever run it that fast, no need). I have it programmed to bury the needle after I let off the foot pedal which is really nice with the knee lift (with a press of the button under the F1 key pictured above I can have that lift out at the end of the stitch on the fly). Makes directional changes super fast and easy.  With a heal tap, it will lift the needle out and I can pull the work piece away with a quick knee lift.  I am super happy with the out come.  Thanks for the comments.

-Adam

[gottaknow]

Glad that worked out for your. I still use a couple machines with Quick Rotan set ups. They seem to just keep going!

Regards, Eric