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I'm here from 7-5 every day. Till noon on Saturday. And usually 3-4 hours on Sunday afternoon.

But I must admit that quite a bit of my time now is spent goofing off on the 'puter.

I just don't have the incentive to bust ass anymore.

A doctor tells a man that he only has 6 months to live.

The man asks "Is there anything I can do to live a little longer?"
The doctor says "Stop eating fried foods and sweets. No fast food of any kind. No alcohol or cigarettes. No drugs.  Go to bed by 7 every night. And most important......NO SEX!"

The man asks "How much longer will I live if I do all that?"

The doctor replies "Oh......you're still gonna die in 6 months. It'll just SEEM a lot longer".

It seems like when we were using the paper prewound bobbins we were constantly adjusting the tension. Never really thought about it until now. I'm thinking those prewound bobbins aren't consistent in size.

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I battled the inconsistency of pre-wounds for years. I went to winding my own, and will never go back. People talk about how much time they save with pre-wounds. I don't see it. It takes less than 10 minutes to wind a day's worth of bobbins every morning.

Seems like if your bobbin tension is loose enough to cause the problem that you're having, you would also be having loose stitches. The bottom thread would be looping on top. That tiny little tension screw on the bobbin case can be adjusted without removing anything.

.  To get through this project, I cut a piece of template plastic the same diameter of the bobbin and punched a hole in the middle.  This seemed to raise the bobbin higher and since doing that, the thread has not caught around the bobbin-case pin/clasp once.  Does that indicate the clasp spring is weak, needing a new bobbin case?

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They make little star-shaped discs to prevent your bobbin from over-spinning when you stop suddenly. Are you using pre-wound bobbins? Some paper shell pre-wound (or no shell at all) bobbins cause these kind of problems. Some pre-wound manufacturers try too hard to make a "one size fits all".

Here's how you change the bobbin case.       

https://youtu.be/zvEsOKqdPZ4

I do the method you suggested, sew the seam without the foam and then slip the foam in from the bottom.
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Machines like the 111W, as well as other brands made before the 80's were built with a maximum stitch length of about 4.5 stitches per inch.

My Juki LU 1508, the newer version of the LU 563 will do 3 SPI. With a wide stitch length and a 24 needle, I can sew those two seams that you guys are talking about. The foam has a groove cut in it, so you're not really trying to sew through the entire 2.5" thickness.

But with delicate fabrics, I sew first, then stuff from the bottom as mentioned.

Most people are able to text a photo nowadays. From that photo, I can at least give enough of a ballpark estimate to separate the serious inquiries from the tire kickers.

Trying to get a somewhat reasonable description over the phone always was like pulling teeth.

A man rolled into town very late one evening. All of the hotels were full.
At the last hotel at the end of the road, he begged the desk clerk to give him a room.

"Please, I'm exhausted. You've gotta have something. Anything. I'll take anything".

The clerk said "Well, we do have one bed in a double occupancy room. But I have to warn you. The guy snores very loudly. Nobody else has been able put up with it."

The man said "I don't care. I'll take it".

The next morning, the man came down to check out. He looked very energetic and well-rested.
The clerk asked him how he slept.

"Great!" said the man. "When I first entered the room, I went over and kissed the guy on the lips and said 'Good night beautiful'. He sat upright in bed and stared at me the rest of the night".

Selvage or salvage? guess I've been saying it wrong all these years.

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Until I joined forums in this modern age of the interweb, I had never seen that word in print.

If you had asked me to write it down back then, I would've wrote self edge, or selvedge. Something with the root word "edge". Because it's on the edge. Makes sense to me.

When you say - the salvage side down - I'm not understanding that.  Salvage is on the end of either the show side or back side -  hoe do you find the correct salvage side ? 
SA

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I was wondering about that too. I took it to mean the back side.

I think Rose has hit on one of the best tips for making good DW out of difficult fabrics.

If the fabric is real thin, move up to 6/32 welt. If it's real thick, you may want to go down to 4/32" welt.

I use the square clunky feet also.

I also use a folding attachment. But I'm hesitant to recommend it because several have ordered one, and not everyone has had the same success that I've had with it. It's supposed to be "universal" for all industrial machines, but apparently, it works better with some models than others. And there may be some inconsistency with it's manufacturing.

You left out overpriced wholesale for a mediocre product.

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I went sideways with a Robert Allen rep many years ago.
She began strongly urging me to sell RA fabrics to the customer at my wholesale cost. I informed her that I wasn't interested in becoming a free intern for them. Then on subsequent visits, she kept "accidentally" leaving the wholesale prices in the back of the books. I complained to the head office. They fixed the problem by just no longer calling on my shop.

I never understood why the top execs get their money in a corporate bankruptcy.

At some point, it behooves them to steer the company into giving up.

Kody: I get a lot of walk-ins off the street that want their loose-fill cushions and pillows re-packed. So 100 lbs. only lasts me a few months.

Gene: I got mine from Foam Products of Dallas. Their salesman brings it free when he's coming this way anyway. I doubt they would ship to Ohio at a reasonable price.

I used to get mine from Ronco in California. With shipping, it came out to around $2.80 lb. The stuff I'm getting from Dallas is $1.80 lb. It is virgin fiber, which I am told means that it has never been re-processed (I thought it meant that nobody has ever had sex in it).