Home Sewing Machine Repair

Do you use emule/overnet? I just checked for you, and there's a few files there, but I don't know how good any of them are. If not, let me know and I'll download it and email them to you.

Allan

Hmmm never heard of emule/overnet so I would say nope i have not :)

what is emule/overnet?

Thanks Janna

Allan wrote:

It's a protocol used to share all sorts of files. In the meantime I've been downloading all the "sewing repair" files I found except one (you have no control over when they start/complete downloading). All of them have just been adverts for that same page you posted a link to. If the last file turns out to be of any use, I'll send it to you.

Allan

Do you really think anyone can teach you all you need to know from a little book?

The guy can't spell or write properly. Would you really benefit from something he's written? =20

You really can't get this kind of knowledge out of a book. Would you depend on a car mechanic who got all of his knowledge out of a book? Hands on classes are best.

I have attended Ray White's classes and they are the best. I've more than made back the cost of the class 10-fold.

-------------- You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.=20

--Mae West=20

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I am fairly new to the sewing world, and every one I know (mom, grandma, friends, ect) all take their machines in for their yearly checkups... due to good fortune and luck I own 4 machines, I use 2 sergers (one black and one white) and a Janome 521 on a fairly regular basis... the Janome was a upgrade from a Husky 1610.... and so thats like 200 dollers in checkups each year...

So... I just started doing research on the internet... seeing if I could figure out how every one else learns this stuff... during that research I found both that other guys website and your group... so far I have been far far more impressed by your group :P

Basicaly all I found were books and the advice "make sure it's threaded correctly and the needle is in the right way" :( Not exatly what I was looking for.

So... How would you go about learning how to maintain your sewing machines if your a college student with no money? I earn my spending money doing sewing for people...

The possibilities of that class are interesting... I will explore it :)

Sorry for the long post, Thankyou, Janna

IMS wrote:

Lots of people on Treadleon have taken Ray's class, and all praise it. Not only is it a good class, he travels around giving it all over the country. If you have a chance to do so, take it, by all means.

It's getting harder to find a good sewing machine mechanic. Around here, many of the dealers send repair jobs out, often to the authorized factory repair center. In other states.

There used to be OSMGs - Old Sewing Machine Guys (and Gals) who knew the machinery. That is getting rare.

Join the Yahoo group Wefixit - dedicated to keeping old sewing machines going. You'll see me there now and again! :)

I wish I was where I could get to the class - I'd be there like a shot!

Yes getting rare but I see an improvement. Most of the big manufacturers Viking , Pfaff Bernina etc. are starting to limit the machines they will sell to a dealer if they do not attend the training classes on them. I see that as a good thing. Used to be you could not get into the business without some training, for a while it seemed a free for all out there if anyone had the cash to start up they would put them in business. With the computer machines now things are much more difficult and it can cost the manufacturer money if they let any old cowboy start poking around in the machine swapping parts with no knowledge leads to return boards that were damaged by incompetence. They seem to be learning.

I don't think that they are rare, I jus think that they are not affiliated with "dealer" type operations...

What I have found is that generally the better, more skilled techs are located in the older parts of the city, frequently in little *old* strip shopping malls. The newer, flashier places (i.e. dealers in big shopping malls or in JoAnne's) seem to send their work out (and they generally have no idea what is wrong, how long it will take, and how much it will cost) These OSMGs seem to charge less as well. (less overhead, I expect)

me

Ok... The last file completed downloading - it's also was just an ad for that same webpage - sorry!

Allan

No worries :)

looks like the general opinion was that even if we could have gotten them, the documents might not have been worth much anyway *shrug* oh well...

My local sewing machine shop has seen alot of me and I asked them if I could apprentice there for a quarter and just soak up as much as I could...

they didn't say no =)

so I will see what they say here soon... they are supposed to conflab about it and get back to me by the end of the week...

so we shall see :)

they also expressed interest in possible inviting Ray White to run one of his classes in their class room :) I am hopeing they do that... I "might" be able to land the free hostess class if we can get 10 people signed up.... hehe

So we shall just have to be patient and see...

why is being patient so hard???

janna

Allan wrote: