Thread/needle choices for sewing leather straps to canvas?

[LanceR]

Well, I finally got back to the Consew 226R-2 and it turned out to have more issues than I had suspected.  It had been set up with a Tennessee Attachments piping binder and pretty much every adjustment that could be monkeyed with had been.  I got the new needle plate, dog, foot sets etc so today I got it put together and fully adjusted .

The stitch length had been adjusted so it couldn't go lower than 9 stitches per inch in forward but would run at 4 SPI in reverse (the machine is supposedly 5 SPI max in either direction) so a search here set me straight on fixing that and getting them to match, I put in the new needle plate and dog in and adjusted the dog height, had to re-index the stitch indicator ring to match the actual stitch length, adjust the presser foot height etc.

I cut a hunk of 840D nylon packcloth and used it to do the stitch length and tension final adjustments. I kept folding it and 16 layers later....
 

As I had hoped it would, the machine acts like it's not even there.  Now that the machine is cleaned up it looks pretty good.  It came from a state auction out of the North Carolina prison system and it has far less wear and tear than I would have expected.
 

 

And late last month I got a Consew 227 cylinder bed machine that was correctly set up and running well.  It'll be an interesting ride learning to sew on it while standing.
 

 

Best regards to all,

Lance

[Wizcrafts]

@LanceR

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[LanceR]

Thank, Wiz

When I posted the post I got a message stating that there was a size limit of 1.46 MB.  I'm a bit of a dinosaur with computers and would appreciate any advice as to what to do.  I don't remember having photo loading issues in the past although I am using a new phone.  If I'm reading things correctly the pictures are around 3 MB.

 

EDIT: I'm still not getting notices of replies to the thread and don't see a way to check or change that.  And is there a time limit to edits?  I don't see a way to edit the post from last night.

 

Best regards to all,

Lance

Edited August 24, 2021 by LanceR

[Wizcrafts]

4 hours ago, LanceR said:

I'm still not getting notices of replies to the thread and don't see a way to check or change that.  And is there a time limit to edits?  I don't see a way to edit the post from last night.

There is a time limit of just an hour or two for editing a post. However, moderators can edit any time.

There are programs that manipulate photos and can save them at greatly reduced file sizes, with minimal loss of detail. I sometimes use FastStone Photo Resizer for quick reduction. I have other expensive programs that can do magic when needed, but Photo Resizer does it good enough for our purposes..

[LanceR]

2 minutes ago, Wizcrafts said:

There is a time limit of just an hour or two for editing a post. However, moderators can edit any time.

There are programs that manipulate photos and can save them at greatly reduced file sizes, with minimal loss of detail. I sometimes use FastStone Photo Resizer for quick reduction. I have other expensive programs that can do magic when needed, but Photo Resizer does it good enough for our purposes..

Thanks.  I'll look into it.

Lance

[mrwatch]

Unless you're new phone has a lot of storage  or a large Micro SSD card 3 megapixel will fill the storage space fairly quickly. From the net, =Dimensions: 600px to 650px is still the best image size for email. The most popular screen resolution worldwide—across both mobile and all platforms—is 360×640. 

On my Android phone at the top left of the phone screen is a wheel. That drops down a menu and has a help place to click on. Hope this helps.