Stitches Per Minute
#11
There is something so impressive about industrial machines. I got to use an industrial serger once, almost 20 years ago, and I've never forgotten how it ran through four to eight layers of burlap and corduroy with perfect ease and how much fun it was to use. To be fair, I was in the throws of my first sinus infection and had had a headache for a week while working with casting resin and other fun but toxic things for 14 hours a day in hundred degree heat, so I may not have been entirely sane at the time. Theatre!
I'd be properly tentative now. A thousand stitches a minute is plenty for my needs.
I'd be properly tentative now. A thousand stitches a minute is plenty for my needs.
#12
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http://parts.singerco.com/IPinstManuals/241.pdf
page 10 of the PDF (numbered as page 16) shows and describes the process
page 10 of the PDF (numbered as page 16) shows and describes the process
#13
I have one machine setting around that I haven’t ever used, that the literature says should run consistently at 4000 SPM....and it’s not the model that has the automatic oiler on it....
W&G Type 11 High Speed Lockstitch Machine:
CD in Oklahoma
W&G Type 11 High Speed Lockstitch Machine:
CD in Oklahoma
#14
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: San Lorenzo, CA
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woah! I have never seen a red one! Those were VERY common in sweatshops... usually you find the black and WAY worn... I am looking for one that survived a bit better than most to add to the show... I had no idea they were available in red. Too Cool!
#15
My walking foot machine called “Old Dirty” because he does my dirty jobs for me, is a Singer 111W153 that is rated at a maximum speed of 2900 SPM, but with the 3470 RPM clutch motor that runs it, you had better be ready to sew if you put the pedal to the metal!
I re-stitched every thread line in a large swimming pool cover with it, including 3 rows of stitching on everything, and the speed was an asset to me. Although, folding, re-folding, tugging, and lifting all of that mesh fabric to get the stitch line under the needle all but voided the sewing speed. I did it all by myself, and would work and work to get a section ready for sewing, then one little zzziiippp.......and it was time to refold, tug, and lift again.....
CD in Oklahoma
I re-stitched every thread line in a large swimming pool cover with it, including 3 rows of stitching on everything, and the speed was an asset to me. Although, folding, re-folding, tugging, and lifting all of that mesh fabric to get the stitch line under the needle all but voided the sewing speed. I did it all by myself, and would work and work to get a section ready for sewing, then one little zzziiippp.......and it was time to refold, tug, and lift again.....
CD in Oklahoma
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CD in Oklahoma
#18
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Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Sacramento County, CA
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The color's cool and no mistake but it's the small and hideaway but still powerful motor setup that makes me stare! Too big for the home is the number one reason to stick with a home machine and this one just destroyed that argument.
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