Techsew 5100 - any users?

[blue duck]

Thought I had a machine picked out for now and then a heavier one for down the road. Now I see this 5100. Says light to heavy leather and 69 to 415 thread. So I am wondering if any of you have practical knowledge of this machine? Kind of seems to good to be true? Thanks y'all.

[Wizcrafts]

1 hour ago, blue duck said:

Now I see this 5100. Says light to heavy leather and 69 to 415 thread.

While the Techsew 5100 is capable of sewing with #69 thread, with a #19 needle, it takes a lot of adjustments to do so efficiently. This machine, like its brothers from Cowboy and Cobra, is really best used with #138 through #415 thread, with #23 through #26 needles.

In order to use thin thread to sew thin leather, you'll need to dumb down the machine (article). I wrote the blog post after performing all of the adjustments in it. They work on a Cobra Class 4 and Cowboy CB4500, so they will also work on a Techsew 5100.

After dumbing down the machine for thin work, when it is time to sew thick stuff, you'll have to reverse the procedure, to smarten it up.

Eventually, if business picks up, you will want to buy one machine for light to medium work and another for thicker work with heavy thread.

Please note that there are no leather point needles for these machines below number 23. There are no more #18 needles in the common marketplace either. It appears that now the smallest System 7x3/794 needle is a #19, which is actually for #92 bonded thread.

[blue duck]

Thank you so much Mr. Wiz! Think I need to stick with the two machines even if it takes a while. If I start messing around trying to do as your blog says, I will most likely have a very expensive boat anchor.