hiya
i just ordered a sailrite portable machine today,:-)
i don't have a back up machine for my Juki so this will be like an insurance
policy, also i intend to keep it in my van so i can do simple jobs
for people like zip replacement without having to take the canvas to
my workshop and then return it.
It should save a lot of money just in fuel.
rich
LS-1 or LZ-1? What sold you on the sail rite portable over other portable walking foot models?
Thenrepair shop I use was selling a little machine it could sew many layers o. Canvas I think it was tuff sew maybe What will you use for power rich I've. Got a Honda 2000 quietpac generator I'll bet it would run it fine
i got the LZ coming Gregg, the only reason i got that one
is i couldn't get the copy Barracuda over here. where can i
get them from wholesale ? say 10 at a time ?
for power mike i'm sort of relying on marina power
i do have a little gen but its about 850w , i'll have
to see what the machine needs when it arrives.
850 watts should run it no problems
if you added a deep cycle battery to your van as a second battery you could run it off an inverter in the truck (probably a 300watt inverter) would do the job
Allan
thats not a bad idea Allan .
Quote from: fragged8 on June 25, 2011, 09:44:11 am
i got the LZ coming Gregg, the only reason i got that one
is i couldn't get the copy Barracuda over here. where can i
get them from wholesale ? say 10 at a time ?
for power mike i'm sort of relying on marina power
i do have a little gen but its about 850w , i'll have
to see what the machine needs when it arrives.
Only ten?
if i can get some over here at a good price
i'll put them in my e-shop. I've not seen any
for sale over here.
would it be better to go direct to Malaysia ?
Rich
I thought the Barracuda came from Canada???
I ordered mine direct from Reliable Corp in Canada (The service was excellent)
The problem I found Rich was that I could only get it in 110V
I had to convert to 240V myself
There are others that i know of now that are clones are;
Mercury in New Zealand and (Needles Eye Industries) NEI in Western Australia
Allan
I bought a Tuffsew off E-Bay ( what a frigging dummy I was ). :) It has the same exact interchangeable parts as the Sailrite and I believe the Thomspon Mini walker.
There are oodles of these machines all made off the same platform but with different names. I was told they were all manufactured in China on the same line but got badged with different names and painted different colors.
Sailrite tried to tell me that my $ 269 dollar Tuffsew was not the same as their machine. They had no further comment when I told them I was buying parts from them for my machine which were actually for their Sailrite machine. :) The parts were identical.
I believe Bob Kovar told me he carries parts for the Thompson mini walker and they are interchangeable with my Tuffsew.
I still have the machine as a back up. I maybe selling it soon if I can find someone with $ 125 bucks. But I probably should keep it around in case I ever have to ship my new machine back to Bob for service.
Chris
Hi Mojo,
I'm interested in $125 machine,that's with in my $150 piggybank,I'm in Miami Fl. so not too far away.
Is it a 7in.gate or 9in.?
Some how the posts I made in this thread have all gone????along with a lot of others I read before and don't see now,when I logged in this time and site been acting weird for me,has not kept me loged in as I marked ether. Twilight Zone :o
Chris
"$ 125 bucks. But I probably should keep it around in case I ever have to ship my new machine back to Bob for service. "
You could come get it back any for a short time,if that happens. ;)
Rich,
Howed the new machine test out? what do ya think? ;) ???
I heard the webmaster moved us to a new server. Helbat
O,my is this a bad site address now?with some other address for the good site?
I am probably going to hold on to the machine as my backup. It would be a good machine for what you want but if your going to be doing full time work with it then I strongly suggest another machine.
I will let you know next week if I am going to sell it or not and if so you have first dibs on it. If you want to come get it then I will throw a table in with it as well.
Chris
Thanks Mojo
,I'm not doing anything but hobbie stuff here at home in Miami,retired now and helping my son build his hot rod.
Do you ever go to stock car races at Punta Gorda Speedway on sat nites?
I raced there a few times back some years ago,nice track.
Never been to that speedway.
Chris
I've been all over punta gorda but I e bever see. The speedway it must be way east of 75 past the airport
Yes it is near airport but sw of it just to east of 75.
Nice track runs sat nites. Punta Gorda Speedway is 1/3mile paved oval
I also raced up in St.Pete/Clear Water,Sunshine Speedway was a 1/4mile paved oval,but that is no longer racing for a about 10 years now