What can a Juki TL actually do?

[DrmCa]

1 hour ago, CrankAddict said:

Your sig lists your 553 for sale, out of curiosity, how much are you asking?

I've taken some parts from it, to put on my Mitsubishi, so it's not worth more than CDN$100 in its present state. Needs about $20-30 of investments.

[kgg]

1 hour ago, CrankAddict said:

Surely you won't argue with me that we all need multiple sewing machines, so worst case this 555 will check one of the other boxes and go unused for leather. 

If the 555 doesn't workout for your other projects the way you want / need and the other major parts like the table top, metal table frame and servo motor can be repurposed to be reused on another machine. If the table frame is older chances are it was constructed with a much heavier gauge of metal unlike a lot of the newer flimsy imported ones that are typically supplied with a lot of the machines these days. Even the table top can usually be redo, depending on the age, as a lot of the older ones were a full 2 inches thick of good plywood. The machine you could probably sell just as the head only or repurpose some of the parts.

I often repurpose sewing machine parts: my manual lathe is sat on a sewing machine table; the lathe is powered by a 550 watt Rex brush servo motor; one of my Singer 29k's is mounted on a cut down table top and metal frame repurposed from a POS PFAFF 487 that I paid $90 ($70 US) for; another older sewing machine frame was repurposed as the base for a 4' x3' working surface. The clutch motor from the PFAFF 487 was used to replace the burnout motor on a Consew 223 just before selling that machine. The PFAFF 487 head will be stripped for the shafts / gears / etc and reused in another project.

13 minutes ago, DrmCa said:

so it's not worth more than CDN$100 in its present state. Needs about $20-30 of investments.

That would be about $100 US in total.

kgg