Chinese shoe patcher build

[Frodo]

This is my Chinese shoe patcher build thread. I

t will be an ongoing thread till the machine is built, then I will post a youtube of it running

my intent.  build  motor driven patcher.. Fix all the bugs that are supposedly wrong with the machine

I have ordered the sewing machine.  It will be here this week, So the amazonians claim.

it is a Uttiny machine the  cost is $109.99.   It was a gift from a friend 

The motor is a  Enduro.  The cost $114.50.    I traded some silver I had for the motor

The motor arrived yesterday.  I removed the 3'' pulley  I   machined a 1 1/2'' pulley to fit the shaft.  

Edited December 10, 2019 by Northmount
Cleaned up your post for you Frodo

[Northmount]

 

@Frodo  Fixed the title and cleaned up your post for you.
Tom

 

[Frodo]

Northmount Thank you,  that was most kind of you

 

[zzmikeg]

Hey Frodo,

Is this the Chinese shoe patcher you're talking about?

 

[Frodo]

yes sir,  same thing different color

click the name ''uttiny'' in my 1st post

you can also click the word ''enduro'' to see the motor

Edited December 11, 2019 by Frodo
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[Frodo]

to day is a waiting on amazon day.

so i drug the old shooting bench out of the yard.  cut the seat off

cleaned it up, added another layer of cdx on top of the plywood

gave it 2  polyurethane coats

 

 

[chuck123wapati]

I see that motor has a variable rpm knob. Can you adjust that to a max speed then use a foot pedal also for variable speed up to that set point? Very nice motor for the price!

[fallendesperado]

haha I have one of those shoe patchers. I've not done leather work with it but it saved my but when i had to sew a ton of embroidered patches (I do commercial embroidery) on to a bunch of baseball caps. It took me forever since I have no motor and hand cranked it but I like that it used just everyday sewing needles for typical home machines. It was 40wt polyester i was running and the whole time i was thinking "if this little thing just had a motor"

[Frodo]

1 hour ago, chuck123wapati said:

I see that motor has a variable rpm knob. Can you adjust that to a max speed then use a foot pedal also for variable speed up to that set point? Very nice motor for the price!

The motor has a variable speed knob and a lever to hook up  foot pedal up to

I am going to slow it down further using a set of pulleys.  In order to keep the torque constant at low rpm

I want enough torque to go through 3 pieces of 9oz veg tan   at 1 stitch every 3 seconds for control purposes

 

[chuck123wapati]

1 hour ago, Frodo said:

The motor has a variable speed knob and a lever to hook up  foot pedal up to

I am going to slow it down further using a set of pulleys.  In order to keep the torque constant at low rpm

I want enough torque to go through 3 pieces of 9oz veg tan   at 1 stitch every 3 seconds for control purposes

 

That will be interesting getting it down that low of rpm, is the patcher 1 to 1, one turn of the handle to one stitch?