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I do know some folks who have bought the packaged electronic wheel balancers and they are hit or miss. Calibration is long winded on them as well, and if there's a power outage you have to recalibrate. I was eyeing a nice manual spin balancer, but they were North of $1700 and more than I could...

I was right here about 6 months ago. This is only my advice, so take it for what you paid....I almost bought one off of Amazon. I got to looking around and found the same machine sold directly from THE Mayflower guy? but was less money and same or better machine. So, I placed and order and...

Learning so much here about sewing. Gonna have to sell some welders to make room for all the new sewing gadgets :ROFLMAO:

@rlitman the needle size says # 230. As for the cone of thread, it's smeared but almost positive it says 12/3.

@dscheidt @WILD-BILL Needing thread recommendations. See above.

@rlitman Thanks for this response. Everyone please try not to laugh at my photos, but here's my set up. Bag closer clamped in my vice, plugged into a very (non) high quality vari-speed pedal. It took the rpms down from 50,000 to about 1200....not great, but a lot better. I tried making a...

Missed out on a 201 by a few hours today. Learning a lot about sewing machines and what to look for now though.

Potted vs belt?

Never knew these types of things existed. Wealth of info on this board.

Wow! Lots of great information here.

Ok, thanks for your help. If / when I find one I may have some more questions. Hate to admit it here on an open forum, but I'm sort of excited about a sewing machine 🤣. How this usually works for me is I get a goofy idea, someone encourages me, the next day I get {whatever}.

Thank you. I see there are 4 different versions. Any one better that you know of?

How do I know the year of MFG? I assume serial # ?

Those are woven. They don't let water permiate through and they deteriorate quickly from UV exposure. A good quality nonvoven bag is about $4 each. I'm not using these for a typical water stopping structure. I want water to be able to slowly soak through. Plus, I have access to cheap / free...

I want a sewing machine to make my own sand / gravel bags. Having not touched a sewing machine since the ripe old age of about 6 or 7 (while mom wasn't looking) I have no idea what's necessary to sew say, 8 oz non woven polypropylene. Anyone have a suggestion?