Cobbler Machine INTBuying

[Johanna]

Saw this today- anyone know anything about it? Kinda interesting, and nice price point.

 

Cobbler Machine by INTBuying

ECO-WORTHY Hand Machine Cobbler Leather Sewing Stitching Machine Shoe Patcher for Manual Sewing Dual Cotton Nylon Line W/DIY Leather Tools Kit

Size: Shoe Mending Machine

 

• UPGRADED PACKAGE - with more protected foam and new thicken carton, adopting a kind of thickened shockproof and anti-fall packaging materials, after repeated testings, the probability of product gets damaged greatly reduces. If you receive a damaged machine, please message us with a photo, we would send you a free replacement immediately.
• DUAL COTTON NYLON - The sewing machine can sew different materials by nylon or cotton wire, such as cloth shoes, rubber shoes, leather shoes, sneakers, high heels, as well as raincoats, leather bags, cloth, trousers, or other leather products.
• EASY SET UP - Need to set it up by yourself, the assembly is straightforward and simple. It will sew reliably and well once you get it set up right.
• ROTATABLE - The walking foot works well, and being able to sew in any direction by turning the foot is really handy.
• DIY Leather tool bag- This product has a handmade leather tool bag, which contains 48 leather tools, which can be used in the entire process of leather making. 

[chrisash]

Type in "Chinese Patcher" into this forum or Youtube, there are plenty of posts

[dikman]

My thought too.

[Johanna]

Someone pointed this out to me, and now I know what it is and why it's so cheap. Makes the explanation easy now. Thanks guys. I didn't know the keywords to search.

[Frodo]

Do not waste your money

[Constabulary]

some love them and seem to work after some modification - I would not touch it.

[chrisash]

If it does what you want then it's a bargain, it's a poor mans Singer 29 which many find useful even though they have limitations on what it can do.Those who have them and have fine tuned them find them better than hand stitching and get reasonable results others seem to expect a higher quality than the price suggests and dont like them

On average most seem to need a bit of tidying up when brought

[Matt S]

I bought one a few years ago, partly out of idle curiosity, partly so I could do repairs easier, and partly so I could run it as a feed-up-the-arm machine for occasional use.

I degreased and deburred the machine, cleaned the swarf and casting sand out of it, retimed the hook, found out which of the miniscule bobbins actually fitted the shuttle, put some half decent needles in. It worked, though not reliably enough to do neat looking repairs on. And every time I touched it or looked at improving it, a phrase about a silk purse and a sow's ear came to mind.

My curiosity was sated.  I continued doing repairs by hand. I found a real feed-up-the-arm machine. The patcher got sold on.

[DonInReno]

I remember watching a YouTube video of a guy who remade most of his from better quality and more artistic arms, levers and misc bits - very very nice.  His stand was also well designed and finished.  Must have been a motorcycle guy since his speed reduction from the motor was a chain drive! Lol

Edited November 24, 2020 by DonInReno

[CowboyBob]

There's a Facebook group dedicated to these & most of them seem to enjoy having to tinker with them & the even accomplish some sewing with them.