Hello. At 5:13 you move the carriage quite eaisly but mine is very stiff and takes quite some force to shift it. I have only recently bought it and it is well used but in good condition but probably not been used for some time. Do you have any advice for me on how to make it glide smoothly, I dont want to dive into it with a can of wd40 without having the slightest clue of what im doing. Thanks.
Hi there, do not use w40, that is bad for the machine, get bicycle or sewing machine oil. The knitting machines like lots of oil, the more the better. I take take an old toothbrush and put a lot of oil and clean the underside of the carriage, I also oil the back section where the carriage slides. What I do there is oil it a lot, bring the carriage up and down a few times then wipe it off. You will see it will be quite dirty and do that a few times. I take the tooth brush and oil the top bed where the needles go up and down. That helps the needles slide better. You need to look where the sponge bar slides in, and take it out and check that there is no lint or fibre yarn under the sponge bar, that can cause the stiffness of the needles, what I use is a plumbing wire with a narrow brush, this is useful for clearing that out. Another thing that nobody looks at is the tension unit, it has screws on either side, carefully open that to check the spring and for any lint that is there. This can affect the knitting, make sure you take pictures of the tension unit in stages as you take it apart so that you can place it the same way. Be careful as it has plastic parts and you don’t want to over tighten or break the plastic.
@@aldosmachineknitting Thank you for the advice, there is a sewing maching shop near me so i'll pop in there for some oil. My machine came will allsorts of accessories, manuals, patterns, magazines etc but it didnt come with the thing you use at 7:15 to hang on the yarn, do you know the name of it so I search for spare? It also came with a couple of RRP lists from 1976, the 323 was £174.85 effective from 1st January 1976 but shot up to £183.60 from the 1st of May 1976. In todays prices that would be around £1,311 for this machine. Anyway, thanks again.
I’m not sure what you mean by 7:15. If you mean tension unit, the knitmaster/studio, is different from brother and Toyota machines. Toyota has a very different tension unit. Just look at the manuals and see the name for the equipment.
I have the same machine.....looking forward to seeing the next projects ( hopefully many) that you do on it. 😊
Really great video, like the colour.
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Hello. At 5:13 you move the carriage quite eaisly but mine is very stiff and takes quite some force to shift it. I have only recently bought it and it is well used but in good condition but probably not been used for some time. Do you have any advice for me on how to make it glide smoothly, I dont want to dive into it with a can of wd40 without having the slightest clue of what im doing. Thanks.
Hi there, do not use w40, that is bad for the machine, get bicycle or sewing machine oil. The knitting machines like lots of oil, the more the better. I take take an old toothbrush and put a lot of oil and clean the underside of the carriage, I also oil the back section where the carriage slides. What I do there is oil it a lot, bring the carriage up and down a few times then wipe it off. You will see it will be quite dirty and do that a few times. I take the tooth brush and oil the top bed where the needles go up and down. That helps the needles slide better.
You need to look where the sponge bar slides in, and take it out and check that there is no lint or fibre yarn under the sponge bar, that can cause the stiffness of the needles, what I use is a plumbing wire with a narrow brush, this is useful for clearing that out.
Another thing that nobody looks at is the tension unit, it has screws on either side, carefully open that to check the spring and for any lint that is there. This can affect the knitting, make sure you take pictures of the tension unit in stages as you take it apart so that you can place it the same way. Be careful as it has plastic parts and you don’t want to over tighten or break the plastic.
@@aldosmachineknitting Thank you for the advice, there is a sewing maching shop near me so i'll pop in there for some oil.
My machine came will allsorts of accessories, manuals, patterns, magazines etc but it didnt come with the thing you use at 7:15 to hang on the yarn, do you know the name of it so I search for spare?
It also came with a couple of RRP lists from 1976, the 323 was £174.85 effective from 1st January 1976 but shot up to £183.60 from the 1st of May 1976.
In todays prices that would be around £1,311 for this machine.
Anyway, thanks again.
I’m not sure what you mean by 7:15. If you mean tension unit, the knitmaster/studio, is different from brother and Toyota machines. Toyota has a very different tension unit. Just look at the manuals and see the name for the equipment.
@aldosmachineknitting It's OK. In another video, the person called it the comb, that's what I'm after.