Recommend industrial mchine?

Anybody have experience/advice? Thanks in

that is correct that a compound feed ( walking foot) does not like light fabrics. While Pfaff is considered the prize machine to own, there are many good ones out there. Juki,Artisan, and other brands are all suitable. I've never heard of a "bad" industrial, just of people buying the wrong one for the intended purpose. You can pick up machines from auctions, going out of business sales, and the want ads.I bought my Rex ( a Juki knock-off) from a little old lady who only used it for less than 10 hours. It was sitting in her basement.

If you want to purchase new, Ron at A1 Sewing Machine

Thanks Penny, I am going to mention that they look into a cylinder arm machine for getting in the gussets. Seems to be the way to go for bags.

I thought about a cylinder arm for the bags. The Singer I have really isn't appropriate for this, so I end up doing this kind of work on a home machine, and it's nowhere near powerful enough for the number of layers I get at the top of a lined bag. I also do flat pieces (wall hangings, etc.). How well does a cylinder arm handle this? I can't afford two machines. Do cylinder arm machines have compound feed?

Some do have compound feed. Take a look at the Artisan 2618-1 B

oh, don't do that... I love learning new things about a machine I might have to have someday.

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I need one about once every two months. So I've cultivated my local "cool" shoe repair guys for those jobs and just shop them out.

P.

I bought a janome 1600P recently. I sew slip covers and sometimes I have 9 layers of fabric to handle. The machine handles the layers well. In addition, the store I bought the machine from adjusted the presser foot so that I can lift it higher than normal, and that small adjustment makes a real big difference. The machine is also lightweight for an 'industrial'. "small change" skrev i melding news: snipped-for-privacy@drn.newsguy.com...

I think you misunderstood. I own a heavy duty compound feed, and needing one every few months or so was a reference to a cylinder head compound feed.

As for the Janone, no knee lift? I couldn't work without a knee lift.

P.

The 1600P has a kneelift.

gwh

hmm, no mention of it on the Janome web site. If they do have one i'ts not clear as it looks like a stand along machine ( internal motor) as compared to a more traditional commerical machine that have seperate tables and motors.

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Second sentence in the second paragraph in the machine description at janome.com.

gwh