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The knitting machine is a Singer Magic Memory KE-1200. Do not be put off by the weird pink colour... this machine is fun and a bit complicated! | The knitting machine is a Singer Magic Memory KE-1200. Do not be put off by the weird pink colour... this machine is fun and a bit complicated! | ||
- | It has a standard needle bed with 200 needles. | + | Theoretically you can programme |
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+ | You can still use the machine as you would a regular manual knitting machine. It has a standard needle bed with 200 needles. | ||
==== If you want to try out the machine ==== | ==== If you want to try out the machine ==== | ||
- | The machine is not yet working perfectly OK. It is working well enough to knit something in a plain colour, or stripes (so long as you have the right tension settings | + | There should be a really useful box somewhere which contains instruction books and some accessories |
- | All of the following | + | When getting set up, it is important to set the correct tensions for the thickness |
- | * Red yarn (probably DK weight, from West Yorkshire Spinners | + | * West Yorkshire Spinners 100% Wensleydale Gems: Set tension dial to max (above 10) and yarn feed dial to 3. This produced |
- | * Off-white (not fluffy) yarn: Set tension dial to 9.1 yarn feed dial to 3. Gauge not measured. Works ok as second colour to red yarn above. | + | * West Yorkshire Spinners |
- | * White brushed thermal (slightly fluffy) DK weight: Same settings as red yarn above. Gauge not measured. | + | * Katia Panama |
- | * Self-striping rainbow yarn (this is West Yorkshire Spinners 4-ply): Cast on successfully with tension dial on 5, but became a bit tight 12 rows later, so changed up to 8, which was fine. Yarn feed dial was set to 5 the whole time. This produces | + | |
- | * Purple and acid yellow cottons (probably DK weight, | + | |
- | ==== Further debugging ==== | + | It also comes with an additional carriage for doing lace, but this has not been tried yet. |
- | There are still errors in needle selection occurring when using either | + | ==== The problem with the punched card mechanism ==== |
- | Also the sponge bar will need glued down at some point. | + | Needle selection errors occur when using either punched card or selection buttons. When moving pins by hand on the bed, errors do not occur (i.e. it's not the carriage |
==== Future hacking ==== | ==== Future hacking ==== | ||
- | It would be nice to be rid of the 12 stitch repeat constraint and instead have every needle individually controllable. This would require hacking, perhaps (servos, cams?). Ideas are welcome. It is possible to buy electronic knitting machines that bypass this constraint and are known to be hackable, but these are 100s of £££ | + | It would be nice to be rid of the 12 stitch repeat constraint, and the fault needle selection mechanism, |
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singer_knit_machine.txt · Last modified: 2020-04-10 15:27 by cicelyp