Machine feed issue

[Bert51]

Central Vic, I'm a Queenslander by birth, but I don't want you to hold that against me..

Bert.

[dikman]

No worries mate, I'm a Pom by birth () but been a croweater for a long time.

Where are you located, Zac?

[Bert51]

Well, talking of Crow eaters, I can't say much, we lived in Mt Gambier for a few years.

Bert.

[Zac]

Thanks guys, I’m in Melbourne, so not that far away!

I do have a manual and aren’t afraid to have a tinker.

As a general rule I tend to think it’s more my lack of skill than it is the machines problem. So it is nice to get advice if I can!

[dikman]

You've come to THE place for advice/help on industrial sewing machines, once you adjust those feet you should be right.

[Bert51]

Don't worry, if we can't help you, we'll just confuse you like we are.  

[Zac]

All fixed, thanks heaps for the hot tips. As soon as I looked at the feet movement with the manual in hand it seemed so obvious! When you know you know! Surprisingly easy to adjust everything too.
Thanks again. Hopefully one day I can return the favour!

[Constabulary]

1 hour ago, Zac said:

Hopefully one day I can return the favour!

safe a Koala

[dikman]

Koalas. Now that Zac's problem has been solved some koala information for those overseas. I consider the koala to be one of God's evolutionary dead ends. They have the brain power of a small ant and spend most of their time sleeping, waking long enough to find food. As they only eat a specific type of eucalyptus leaf (nothing else) they climb the tree to eat and so can sleep next to their food source. They are slow on the ground but good climbers (BIG claws). Their reasoning ability is one step above zero (first hand experience here). They also make horrendous noises, the male sounds like a mad pig grunting and the females shriek if a male bothers it. Scary noises at night until you know what's making them. Early explorers found they weren't any good to eat due to their diet of eucalyptus leaves.

They look cute and cuddly but can be vicious things if you're not careful picking them up, and if you see two fighting don't interfere!

Mother and baby in a tree in our front yard, male in same tree. We had to cut down the tree eventually because their constant feeding was slowly killing it!

 

[Bert51]

Koalas look small and cuddly, but if you saw a large males fighting in the bush or the hear them screaming most of the night you might think like I do.

They used to keep me awake most night when the males where looking after their girls, in the end we put 2 foot of tin half way up the truck to stop them killing our trees.

Back to what we are here for,  I am please you solved your problem easily and we did not confuse you in the process.

Enjoy your sewing.

Bert.