Speed reducer or new motor?

[Ashley55]

9 hours ago, kgg said:

What Country  /  City are you located in as someone maybe able to direct you to vendor close to your location.

kgg

I'm in Ontario Canada

[Ashley55]

I watched a few diy videos of speed reducers, and decided I'd be better off buying something "premade." I'm just not handy like that unfortunately...

[MtlBiker]

8 minutes ago, Ashley55 said:

I'm in Ontario Canada

Ontario is a big province.  Where abouts?  @kgg who also replied to you is in Ontario also.  Before you go with the Techsew motor, check out Japan Sewing in Toronto... their website is meager, but Chris at 905-764-0100 is very helpful and has great prices.   I bought my last servo motor from him (and I'm in Montreal).  I also have a Techsew machine with their servo.  Both are good options.

[Ashley55]

32 minutes ago, MtlBiker said:

Ontario is a big province.  Where abouts?  @kgg who also replied to you is in Ontario also.  Before you go with the Techsew motor, check out Japan Sewing in Toronto... their website is meager, but Chris at 905-764-0100 is very helpful and has great prices.   I bought my last servo motor from him (and I'm in Montreal).  I also have a Techsew machine with their servo.  Both are good options.

I'm in a tiny town out in the middle of nowhere, Harriston. About 2 hours from Toronto. 

Thank you, I will check them out!

 

[kgg]

2 hours ago, Ashley55 said:

I'm in a tiny town out in the middle of nowhere, Harriston. About 2 hours from Toronto. 

As MtlBiker said call Chris at Japan Sewing. Good prices and save on shipping cost or you can pick it up. I have purchased all my new machines from him, good service.

kgg

[dikman]

10 hours ago, toxo said:

You guys certainly like to spend money. For less than £50 I replaced the handwheel with a 250mm pulley and replaced the pulley on the motor with a 40mm one and now can do one stitch at a time and it took less than an hour to do.

You guys constantly never offer this as a solution but never say why.

I have done the same thing and have suggested it in quite a few posts but it can be difficult for some folks to source a suitable pulley and fit it. On one machine I replaced the handwheel with a large pulley AND added a speed reducer - it crawled along!

[MarlinDave]

I really wanted to do that but could not find info on machine shaft diameter. Would have to take machine apart and wait to find correct pulley. Looked for larger factory handwheel as well for a long time. Also a pulley is not as comfortable as a handwheel and chance to get finger between pulley and belt. So I went with the speed reducer and it works well.  

[Cumberland Highpower]

14 hours ago, toxo said:

You guys certainly like to spend money. For less than £50 I replaced the handwheel with a 250mm pulley and replaced the pulley on the motor with a 40mm one and now can do one stitch at a time and it took less than an hour to do.

You guys constantly never offer this as a solution but never say why.

I have done similar modifications, however it's not always so easy for common hobbyists to figure that out...Not many here can source a "250"mm pulley so easily, or machine out a hub, or measure/fit bores and bushings.  What makes it a bit harder still for some, is that we're on an "imperial" system of measure. Pulleys here have bores in fractional inch sizes.  A Chinese machine is probably a copy of an Adler, that's probably metric spec.

Canuks probably have metric pulleys....Last time I was in Canada (some time ago) it was a mix of Imperial and Metric at the hardware store.

Apparently, at some point in time (Chandler?) offered a nice oversize handwheel for the Adler 105/205 machines as an add on. There was a 105 in the for sale forum here last month that had one on it.  

Edited November 11, 2021 by Cumberland Highpower

[kgg]

59 minutes ago, Cumberland Highpower said:

Last time I was in Canada (some time ago) it was a mix of Imperial and Metric at the hardware store.

It still is, with Imperial easier to access for a lot of items like nuts, bolts, drill bits, pulley's etc.

kgg

[toxo]

Here's the original post i did including the cost.

It's called a taper lock pulley and the hole in the center is the same for all sizes. It's the bush that goes on the shaft that you order with the pulley for your shaft. the set screws lock everything together.

Here's one company in the US.

https://pulley.biz/pulley-manufacturer-in-united-states-of-america/#:~:text=Taper Lock Pulley In United States Of America,patron’s requisites regarding our products specifications and sizes.