Would it be possible to install a roller foot on this machine?

[SheltathaLore]

Part number or source for the second foot, that is.

[mikesc]

I'm thinking that Darren is "the source" :-)

And would probably be perfectly happy to sell them to you, and any one else interested.

By no means the first time that he has posted things that no one else has, no one else has heard of, or "hands on" advice that is not available elsewhere..

Edited January 4, 2018 by mikesc

[SheltathaLore]

Ohhh derp, for some reason I was thinking that Constabulary was selling it.

I'll see if I can get this one working, and if not, I'll hit you up, @Darren Brosowski

[Constabulary]

6 hours ago, SheltathaLore said:

I was thinking that Constabulary was selling it.

No - sorry I´ll keep it.

Check with Darren - seems this is a good solution!

[SheltathaLore]

Welp, I installed a standard roller foot needle plate and feed dog, and nothing went horribly wrong or collided when I did a few stitches with teh handwheel (although if I ever want to stitch at longer stitch lengths, I'll need to doublecheck again.  Woo needle feeds.)

I have an old foot that I found on the floor when I was cleaning - the base somehow got rusted - so it's an ideal candidate for making a bracket.  I'll give it a try once the roller foot arrives.

 

I did try the other kind of roller foot on my machine, and it sewed with surprisingly little fuss (size 16 needle, 46 thread), but the visibility and control aren't good enough for what I wanted to do.  It would probably be fine for straight stitching, though.

[Wizcrafts]

9 hours ago, SheltathaLore said:

I did try the other kind of roller foot on my machine, and it sewed with surprisingly little fuss (size 16 needle, 46 thread), but the visibility and control aren't good enough for what I wanted to do.  It would probably be fine for straight stitching, though.

I bought a roller equipped flat foot for my Singer 31-15 and used it to sew Delica seed beads onto a leather strap and a belt. I had backed off the foot pressure screw to avoid breaking beads and this big foot had enough footprint to keep the leather from lifting and was gentle enough to not crush the glass beads.

[SheltathaLore]

Oh cool!  I have a hard time visualizing it, but it's neat that it worked.

There is clearly more to this applique business than having the right gadget, unsurprisingly, but the gadgets help... and it's a fun excuse to track them down.

 

I wasn't terribly successful with rigging up a bracket for the Singer foot, but it occurs to me that a teflon zipper foot might do.  If that doesn't work out, I'll hit up Darren for his foot and see if I can get that to work (I did tinker with the needle bar height and orientation to figure out where the adjustments were, so I can probably make it work).

[Darren Brosowski]

On 1/5/2018 at 8:49 AM, mikesc said:

I'm thinking that Darren is "the source" :-)

And would probably be perfectly happy to sell them to you, and any one else interested.

By no means the first time that he has posted things that no one else has, no one else has heard of, or "hands on" advice that is not available elsewhere..

You hit the nail on the head Mike!!!!!

I am a one man show and so keep my business pretty specialised and am always hunting down product at the "unusual" end of the market.

As for the advice - I might just be making stuff up LOL

On 1/5/2018 at 8:49 AM, mikesc said:

I'm thinking that Darren is "the source" :-)

And would probably be perfectly happy to sell them to you, and any one else interested.

By no means the first time that he has posted things that no one else has, no one else has heard of, or "hands on" advice that is not available elsewhere..

You hit the nail on the head Mike!!!!!

I am a one man show and so keep my business pretty specialised and am always hunting down product at the "unusual" end of the market.

As for the advice - I might just be making stuff up LOL

[Darren Brosowski]

On 1/5/2018 at 8:49 AM, mikesc said:

I'm thinking that Darren is "the source" :-)

And would probably be perfectly happy to sell them to you, and any one else interested.

By no means the first time that he has posted things that no one else has, no one else has heard of, or "hands on" advice that is not available elsewhere..

You hit the nail on the head Mike!!!!!

I am a one man show and so keep my business pretty specialised and am always hunting down product at the "unusual" end of the market.

As for the advice - I might just be making stuff up LOL

[SheltathaLore]

Okay, tried a teflon zipper foot, got surprisingly decent results on a test piece.  I still need more practice, but a reasonable result is clearly achievable, and matching thread will make the occasional wobble a lot less obvious.  I think I'll try to hunt down a triangle point needle in the DBx1 system, or try a round point; the twisty stitches aren't quite the look I'd like.

Darren, at some point in the future I might still hit you up for that roller foot if you still have one, but don't reserve it for me.