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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on February 26, 2008, 8:09 am
NightMist wrote:
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>> If you sew a lot, buy your needles in bulk. Good quality needles are
>> relatively cheap that way, and you don't feel the need to get every last
>> bit of service out of them. ;-) Look at what the machine cost, what
>> the fabric cost, what the pattern cost (if you use one), and what a
>> needle costs. Toss the needle, save the machine, fabric, pattern, and
>> your nerves.
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> Actually I have been thinking of starting to do that.
> For that I may give my service guy the option as he carries some
> supplies, including needles, in his wife's shop.
> Universals at least. If he told me he could get me fines for silk and
> leather needles in quantity at a decent price, I might just kiss him.
>
> Currently ten or so packets of needles at retail would cover what the
> Pfaff cost me. Another seven or ten packets would cover her
> introductory visit to the sewing machine guy. I wanted to make sure
> that that linen timing belt was in good shape (it was).
> I have been very lucky with finding sewing machines (G)
> I do know what the old girl would cost to replace though!
> She is gold and treated as such.
> Matter of fact I will be going over her cabinet some time in the near
> future with an eye to tightening it up. It is original and more than
> fifty years has definitely taken it's toll on the hinges and where
> they attach.
Schmetz, Klasse, and Rhiein* are all German made needles and all come in
bulk boxes of 100 Universals in size 70, 80 and 100. I save about 7p a
needle buying them like this. I also look for the larger packs of
Schmetz jersey/knit needles. Almost all my needles come from these
three brands as I only buy the others if I'm desperate! I've had to
toss a whole pack of Singer needles... NOT a good brand in my book. I
use Schmetz in all my old Singer machines without a problem. The only
machine I may need to bu6y odd brands for is the old Jones Family CS,
which takes a needle size now only used in commercial bartack machines
and the like!
*I've only ever seen their needles in the bulk boxes: I believe they
make the Bernina brand and maybe also Elna.
--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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Posted by Pogonip on February 26, 2008, 2:54 pm
NightMist wrote:
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> Actually I have been thinking of starting to do that.
> For that I may give my service guy the option as he carries some
> supplies, including needles, in his wife's shop.
> Universals at least. If he told me he could get me fines for silk and
> leather needles in quantity at a decent price, I might just kiss him.
>
> Currently ten or so packets of needles at retail would cover what the
> Pfaff cost me. Another seven or ten packets would cover her
> introductory visit to the sewing machine guy. I wanted to make sure
> that that linen timing belt was in good shape (it was).
> I have been very lucky with finding sewing machines (G)
> I do know what the old girl would cost to replace though!
> She is gold and treated as such.
> Matter of fact I will be going over her cabinet some time in the near
> future with an eye to tightening it up. It is original and more than
> fifty years has definitely taken it's toll on the hinges and where
> they attach.
>
> NightMist
I've got some machines like that. A Pfaff 360, for instance. It runs
like a fine watch, and didn't cost me $50, even having to buy a bobbin
case for it. Then there are the Singer 401s, 301s, 66s, 99s, and a
precious 115. I'm not crazy for the 128s and 129s, but I have a few. I
love the old machines, my husband likes the cabinets, which are really
fine furniture - especially in these days of MDF, plywood, and laminates.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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Posted by Mary Fisher on February 26, 2008, 7:37 am
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> Ron Anderson wrote:
>> Stop treating your needles like so much trash. Do not commingle needles
>> in fact if you have used them for any length of time as in 6-8 hours of
>> sewing toss them. If you actually think they are still in good condition
>> put them back in the original container.
>> Take a look at this
>> http://www.a1sewingmachine.com/needles.htm
> If you sew a lot, buy your needles in bulk. Good quality needles are
> relatively cheap that way, and you don't feel the need to get every last
> bit of service out of them. ;-) Look at what the machine cost, what the
> fabric cost, what the pattern cost (if you use one), and what a needle
> costs. Toss the needle, save the machine, fabric, pattern, and your
> nerves.
I agree. Needles are disposables, if they weren't they'd be built in.
Mary
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> Joanne
> stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
> http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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Posted by NightMist on February 25, 2008, 11:14 pm
On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:10:42 -0500, "Ron Anderson"
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>> I _think_ I have a needle issue.
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>Stop treating your needles like so much trash. Do not commingle needles in
>fact if you have used them for any length of time as in 6-8 hours of sewing
>toss them. If you actually think they are still in good condition put them
>back in the original container.
I never put general use needles back in the original container.
I chuck them into the sharps disposal tin. And I change them
regularly.
What I have in a merry jumble in an old maroon tin Singer box are
unused needles in their little plastic cases. Somebody has a sale on
I get some and tuck them in the box. I want a size 10 singer needle
for a project I am sewing on the singer 99, but can only get an
assortment that contains a 10. The packet(s) with the other sized
needles goes in the tin. etc. etc.
I have an old recipe box with dividers for storing packets of
specialty needles.
What I am wondering is are all universal needles really universal?
99 percent of machine needles available locally are Singer. If my
Pfaff just hates Singer needles, then I can just as well start mail
ordering all my needles. I already have to do that for specialty
needles anyway.
NightMist
--
Nothing has been the same since that house fell on my sister.
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Posted by Ron Anderson on February 26, 2008, 8:41 am
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> On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:10:42 -0500, "Ron Anderson"
>>> I _think_ I have a needle issue.
>>Stop treating your needles like so much trash. Do not commingle needles in
>>fact if you have used them for any length of time as in 6-8 hours of
>>sewing
>>toss them. If you actually think they are still in good condition put them
>>back in the original container.
> I never put general use needles back in the original container.
> I chuck them into the sharps disposal tin. And I change them
> regularly.
> What I have in a merry jumble in an old maroon tin Singer box are
> unused needles in their little plastic cases. Somebody has a sale on
> I get some and tuck them in the box. I want a size 10 singer needle
> for a project I am sewing on the singer 99, but can only get an
> assortment that contains a 10. The packet(s) with the other sized
> needles goes in the tin. etc. etc.
> I have an old recipe box with dividers for storing packets of
> specialty needles.
> What I am wondering is are all universal needles really universal?
> 99 percent of machine needles available locally are Singer. If my
> Pfaff just hates Singer needles, then I can just as well start mail
> ordering all my needles. I already have to do that for specialty
> needles anyway.
> NightMist
> --
> Nothing has been the same since that house fell on my sister.
Like anything else you get what you pay for most of the time. Schmetz is
about as good as it gets for needles. They will work in most all makes of
machine, are available in all matter of size and type.
I have never like the Singer needles personally but I do not sew I just
repair.
I without fail use the Schmetz in the European machines, but do admit to
using Organ brand for most everything else.
--
Ron Anderson A1 Sewing Machine
18 Dingman Rd., Sand Lake, NY 12153
518-469-5133
http://www.a1sewingmachine.com
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>> If you sew a lot, buy your needles in bulk. Good quality needles are
>> relatively cheap that way, and you don't feel the need to get every last
>> bit of service out of them. ;-) Look at what the machine cost, what
>> the fabric cost, what the pattern cost (if you use one), and what a
>> needle costs. Toss the needle, save the machine, fabric, pattern, and
>> your nerves.
>
> Actually I have been thinking of starting to do that.
> For that I may give my service guy the option as he carries some
> supplies, including needles, in his wife's shop.
> Universals at least. If he told me he could get me fines for silk and
> leather needles in quantity at a decent price, I might just kiss him.
>
> Currently ten or so packets of needles at retail would cover what the
> Pfaff cost me. Another seven or ten packets would cover her
> introductory visit to the sewing machine guy. I wanted to make sure
> that that linen timing belt was in good shape (it was).
> I have been very lucky with finding sewing machines (G)
> I do know what the old girl would cost to replace though!
> She is gold and treated as such.
> Matter of fact I will be going over her cabinet some time in the near
> future with an eye to tightening it up. It is original and more than
> fifty years has definitely taken it's toll on the hinges and where
> they attach.