Quote Originally Posted by J. Robinson View Post
I'm enjoying watching this, too, Roger. Also, I'm learning. What kind of sewing machine are you using?
Thanks Jim. I picked up a Yamata FYv5318 Industrial machine with table a few years ago. The guy had bought it at a GoodGuys show where Ron Mangus was demonstrating. He had never got it working, and advertised it on CraigsList or something. I think I paid $300 for it and discovered that he'd lost the tensioning screw from the bobbin. The local shop in the city asked "Why would you buy that junk?", but then he took my bobbin away and came back with the needed screw in place.... It was still difficult to use, as it's intended for production work on fabrics where they want to fly, while I wanted to crawl. I bought a new motor with a variable speed dial, but if I cranked it too low it popped the GFI. Reading more I found that guys put on a speed reducer pulley setup. Rather than that I bought a 10" pulley to replace the driven wheel at the machine, drilled it out to the needed shaft size and with a new belt I achieved the same thing.
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It had been several years since I'd used it, and I went to the local fabric store and bought a big spool of maroon thread to match my material. BIG mistake!! It was serger thread, much too light for this machine but it took me a day or two to figure that out.... After adjusting everything I could adjust I was still getting a massive tangle of thread on the bottom side of my test pieces so I decided to load up some heavier black thread. Ba-Da-Bing, Ba-Da-Boom it cranked out perfect stitches so I decided black top stitches on maroon would be just fine!