Re: endless bobbin

On 19/09/2010 00:20, BEI Design wrote:
Kate XXXXXX wrote:
On 18/09/2010 20:16, Alan Dicey wrote:

I assume they sew more slowly, needing to make a bigger
loop of the needle thread and get it round a bigger
bobbin

No, most industrial mchines sew at several thousand
stitches per inch

???!!! Really? Doesn't that sort of pile the stitch right
on top of each other? ;-> (I know you meant stitches per
minute.)

I haz the tired, after hand stitching half a wedding gown hem: silk dupion with horsehair braid in it.

as opposed to the low hundreds of
most
domestic machines. Some of the newer larger embroidery
machines (like that amazing
Bernina I'll buy when I win the lottery!) have a bigger
bobbin and sew at
1100 SPM.

The Singer Quantum XL5000 top speed is "up to 850SPM," but
for most embroidery projects I slow it down to about the 3/4
mark. For the metallic thread I used recently, I slowed it
down to the slooooowest speed to prevent friction and thread
breakage. I now have a bottle of All-Purpose Sewer's Aid
(thanks Judie!), but I have yet to test it.

I run my sergers as fast as they will go. ;-) The old
Bernette really whizzes, the Huskylock 936 is much slower
even at the fastest setting.<shrug>

My 910 was very fast. The Bernina is too. The Brother is slower, and the only Bernette I ever used didn't get to be too fast before it shimmied off the table into my lap!



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