I contacted Kevin Pinkerton over at ISMACS and he suggested DCx1F needles. I'm pretty sure we have some of those here even though we've never had a machine that uses them. Now the hunt is on.
Jon,
The needle in it has a very short point. Sort of like a 206x13. I don't know if grinding the top off of a 15x1 would work. But the thought did cross my mind. The only problem is how much to grind off and how to do it consistently.
n-u-n,
I don't know what the numbers are for the stitches yet, but I ran the stitch control down to "1". Then ran some stitches. On most machines I have, when the stitches get to the 20+ per inch they loose their individual stitch.
This machine makes the most perfect itsy tinsy stitches I've seen. I'll have to do it again with a good needle and post them.
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Next up a video of the naked Kenmore running. In color with sound.
Joe