Ok, so much for the weird posts... I hope.
Tonight is Armor Night. That is the night I host a training workshop from 7-10pm. I did not plan to get much done on the Ej. (Elias Jr) However, tonight the students needed a lot of "personal time with the tools" type practice, so I got to play.
I decided to go ahead and assemble the lower portion. Then I decided to Tri-Flow it (lol the machine didn't know what hit it) It is still noisy. Kinda cool. Eventually i'll get a video up of it moving with sound. Then I decided to thread it as far as i could....
It drives the opposite of a Singer.... the belt pully rotates top away.
The main driveline on the unit
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A bed level view of the front
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bed level view of the face
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Underside. Really captures the whole motion mechanism
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The is the back side of the famous "four-motion feed" or "step feed" the two cams run the show with the (broken for now) stitch length control rod (with brass spring attached) in place.
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Here it is from the outside. The black arm coming in from the top to about 7 o'clock is the stitch length regulator. when i manually hold this arm to the right in this picture, the stitch is longer, when it is to the left in this picture, it is shorter.
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Threaded as much as it can be with a broken take-up and no needle (or shuttle or bobbin)
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Just cool...
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