r/MachineKnitting

Hello ! Je viens de mettre à neuf une machine à tricoter double fonture Singer (je crois que c'est la 1100 ou 2100).

Malheureusement lorsque je veux monter mon premier rang de maille...rien ne tient !

Au premier passage de chariot, cela forme bien les zig zag sur les aiguilles, puis au deuxième passage...rien.. cela ne fait que recréer un rang de zig zag sans que le premier et deuxième rangs ne s'accrochent.

Je me demande si cela vient des aiguilles ou du chariot.

Pourtant le "clapet" des aiguilles fonctionne bien, pas de gripés.

Qu'en pensez-vous ?

Should I change my sponge bar? Cause for me it Looks fine but the needles are not getting fully pushed down.
I measured it and it still 1cm high.

I found this machine on marketplace. They told me that it is fully operational.
I’m an advanced hand knitter and I wanted to try machine knitting. The fact that this is vintage made me very curious.
The problem is I can’t tell what model and year this is. Is it an m201?
Also can anyone tell if anything is missing?
Is it worth it?

I finished the edges of the tank top this way: I worked a very tight slip stitch around the collar, taking two stitches together every 3 cm. Then I folded and sewed the 2 cm edge around the waist. My daughter-in-law loved it! Thanks for all the advice :)

Hi

I just bought this knitmaster 360 and im a newbie working through the machine checking and cleaning

but this part is not listed in the manual

It is broken and i would like if anyone could explain the use of this part and if i need to have it on the machine and replace it

Hi everyone this is my first time fixing any form of knitting machine and I can't get my needles to be all even lengths. Google is telling me that the needles are all the same length but when I open up the machine it's a very different story. I can get them to all the same lengths but I have to put them in-between a and b. I feel that is also wrong.

Am I pushing them too far in?

Am I being impatient and not waiting for my new sponge bar (any recommendations for any places that ship to aus please)

Is this normal?

Any help is very heavily appreciated please!

Machine: Brother KH 930E

I just got this machine and replaced the sponge bar, confirming that it is sitting correctly on top of the needles. The K carriage moves across the bed without any issues by itself, but it gets stuck when the sinker plate is attached.

I measured the sinker plate at 119 mm from the rail edge, which appears to be correct. According to the manual, there should be a 0.5 mm gap between the needles and the sinker plate, but mine is closer to 5 mm (0.5 cm). The manual recommends a “vertical adjustment,” which seems to involve bending the plate upward while it is secured in place. I may be doing it incorrectly, but the plate will not move even 1 mm—much less the approximately 4.5 mm needed. Has anyone dealt with this or know what I may be missing?

Appreciate any help!

Hello,

So I want to get my Piece off of the cast on but how do I do it without losing my stitches?

So I tried another wool and it just doesn’t get better…. It kinda gets stuck and then I have to loosen it up again. That’s is frustrating.

I took apart my new-to-me Passap Duomatic SD to clean it before knowing enough about the machine (and machine knitting in general).

I've managed to troubleshoot most of my issues and put everything back together and now the only issue left (for now) is that when I try to knit swatches using a single bed w/pushers, large loops form every time I start/end a new row.

For another machine, I would assume that I needed to add weights, but given that the pushers are supposed to eliminate the need for weights, something on my machine must not be calibrated correctly. I imagine that whatever is wrong will continue to cause issues with other settings on the machine.

Any idea on how to fix this?? TIA!

Hello,

So I got gifted this Brother kh 860 and every time I try to knit on strand gets loose and doesn’t get knitted so I have to open up everything. I hav tried putting weights in it also tried with changing the width. I don’t know what else to do… maybe someone can help

Hi everyone. I 3D-printed a knitting machine based on this design: https://www.printables.com/model/1191632-flatbed-knitting-machine . It uses Brother KR830/KR838/KR850 needles with 4.5mm spacing. I’m new to knitting and am trying to figure out how it all works so I can get the machine running properly and make any necessary adjustments. I’ve made a few test swatches using yarn with a weight of 1000m/100g. The yarn keeps slipping off the end needles, or the needle catches the yarn but fails to drop the stitch. What could be the problem? Also, could you advise me on how to choose yarn? What length-to-weight ratio (meters per 100g) should I look for, and how many strands should I use? Are there any other nuances I should be aware of? My main goal right now is to knit myself a scarf. Thanks in advance for any advice!

Hello. I always get a lot of help from this community.

My Brother KH-940 knitting machine keeps dropping stitches when I’m knitting a Norwegian pattern. I don’t have this problem at all when knitting without a pattern. I thought it might be a problem with the sponge bar, so I replaced it, but it didn’t help... It happens most often when moving the carriage from right to left, but it also occurs occasionally when moving from left to right. Are there any other solutions I should try? Could it be a problem with the carriage? I’ve been unable to solve this issue for several months now, and I feel like I’m about to lose my mind... Thank you in advance.