Standard flat-bed knitting machines are complex together with pick out a lot of moving parts. Circular sock knitting machines chemical compound the complexity past times converting the needle bed(s) into a circular configuration. Sock knitting machines amongst ribbers are fifty-fifty to a greater extent than confounding. Antique Sock Knitting Machines amongst ribbers are ridiculous!
Don't Touch a Fucking Thing!
In my latest attempts at bringing Gerdy (my rear for my 1924 Circular Sock Knitting Machine) dorsum to an active life, I pick out done the following:- Replaced the cylinder restrict which holds inward all the needles
- Fixed chips on the overstep of the cylinder slots
- Verified all needles are non broken or jammed
- Fixed a broken heel tension spring
- Adjusted the cam lifter springs
- Adjusted the yarn feeder (both distance from the cylinder together with summit of the feeder)
- Oiled the needles, crank together with cylinder
- Adjusted the run upwards length (multiple times equally this affects the guess of the knitted fabric
With the ribber attachment I have:
- Verified/replaced all ribber needles to brand certain all are working correctly
- Adjusted the ribber plate summit screw
- Adjusted the centering screw
- Adjusted the timing screw
- Adjusted the cylinder slot adjustment
- Re-adjusted the yarn feeder height
As an illustration of how persnickety this machine tin be, I decided that the delivered yarn carrier head:
Should live replaced amongst a newer, to a greater extent than slow to purpose version that is made for machines similar mine:
That 1 "minor" modify took days of rejiggering, re-adjusting together with cursing to hold upwards realize that I powerfulness never live able to perish both the cylinder together with the ribber working...so I seat dorsum the sometime business office together with settled for non beingness able to take the yarn without breaking it.
I'm hopeful it volition live smoothing sailing at 1 time that everything seems to live working inward harmony...for the moment.
Current Knitting/Spinning
Droning on well-nigh my electrical current WIP, I pick out added a few inches to the ever-growing Read Between the Lines Shawl.
You'll regime annotation I pick out come upwards almost to the terminate of the kickoff 2 cakes of yarn, together with I'll live debating on what colors to laid out adding into the fray today sometime.
I also seat inward about to a greater extent than run on spinning my electrical current favorite roving.
I'm thinking well-nigh triple plying these singles into what volition likely terminate upwards beingness a DK or light-worsted weight yarn, having individual dye it for me, together with and thus making a sweater or a vest amongst it. I know it doesn't expect similar much right now, but inward my mind, that is a photograph of a magnificent garment.
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