new machine on monday

[fragged8]

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

[Gregg @ Keystone Sewing]

LS-1 or LZ-1?   What sold you on the sail rite portable over other portable walking foot models?

[Mike8560]

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

[fragged8]

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.

[Allan]

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

[fragged8]

thats not a bad idea Allan .

[Gregg @ Keystone Sewing]

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? 

[fragged8]

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

[Allan]

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

[Mojo]

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

[Hell Bat]

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

[Hell Bat]

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. ;)

[Hell Bat]

Rich,
Howed the new machine test out? what do ya think? ;) ???

[Mike8560]

I heard the webmaster moved us to a new server. Helbat

[Hell Bat]

O,my is this a bad site address now?with some other address for the good site?