Treadle Running
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Treadle Running
DH worked on our best treadle yesterday afternoon. He cleaned and shined all the metal as well as all the moving parts inside the head and underneath. Now it moves as smooth as butter and the stitches are beautiful! All I need to do is practice.
Should the leather cord be unhooked every time or is it ok to leave it hooked up?
The next thing we are going to do is try Glenn's method with linseed oil, denatured alcohol and shellac on the heads of the treadle & feather weight.
Should the leather cord be unhooked every time or is it ok to leave it hooked up?
The next thing we are going to do is try Glenn's method with linseed oil, denatured alcohol and shellac on the heads of the treadle & feather weight.
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If you mean the belt that works the treadle, I leave mine attached all the time. It can get dry and I do run a moist facecloth down it if needed. It can stretch if you leave it attached all the time but it takes quite a while. About every 2 years I change my belt or shorten it if it stretches. Muv a QB ember just posted a new video on YouTube on using the treadle.
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Looking forward to seeing pictures. I leave my belt connected all the time. If you have a model that the head can be lowered into the cabinet, or when you need to oil under the bed, there is on some treadles a lever that takes the belt off the fly wheel so you can lift the head.
So you don't need to disconnect, only to tighten after it stretches.
So you don't need to disconnect, only to tighten after it stretches.
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Redmadder, you might want to try taking the faceplate off the head and cleaning everything out well with wd40 then reoiling. That's what we did following the instructions here on the forum and it is so easy to treadle its amazing.
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