Line Shaft Pillow Factory

Featured

Posted on by

Here’s a photo of the line shaft in use, in a pillow factory. We’re thinking it was sometime before WW II. Tom believes the machines are Singer 45-K ( second photo).

I guess people saw better in those days – cause I can only spot 2 tiny electric light bulbs. Maybe they had really big windows ?

Old Line shaft Sewing Factory

Featured

Posted on by

Tom came upon some old photos we thought would be fun to post. They are from a museum in Germany . It used to be a working factory that was turned into a museum. It looks like the sewers just got up and walked away for break time .

The machines were powered by a line shaft,running underneath the tables.This means that all the machines were driven off one motor that was probably outside the sewing room. Each machine had an individual clutch, so that the operator could control their separate machine

Phone out this week 6/15/21

Featured

Posted on by

Well we got the rain we wished for, but wouldn’t you know that it knocked out our phone with it. Looks like it’ll hopefully be fixed by ATT on Friday. So in the meantime please contact us only through e-mail. Sorry for any inconvenience.

I prefer having a land line for good clear communication – BUT the phone down is extra annoying !

New Machine – Singer 153 K103 Cylinder Arm Walking Foot Machine

Posted on by
Pretty exciting – We acquired a new machine to add to our stable.
A Singer 153K103 Cylinder Arm, Walking Foot, Industrial Machine

There are just some jobs that you can’t do without a machine like this.
It will enable us to sew the inside of a heavy bag, that would be near impossible to manipulate on a flat bed machine.

Tom is currently in the middle of building a special table for it , and fitting it with a 3/4 HP servo motor.

I’ll have some more photos when it’s up and running .
Stay Tuned.

Winter Sewing Shop Upgrades

Posted on by

Over our winter break this year, we did a small construction project – building a storage loft over 1/2 the shop.

It turned out really great & I can now store all my jobs in progress & extra materials, someplace other than my work table top 🙂

Also we changed all the fluorescent lights over to ballast bypass LED’s. I really recommend this to anyone that uses standard 4 foot shop lights. Pretty easy to re-wire them, and the LED strips work in any T-8 or T-12 fixture. And for a $ 80 box of bulbs, it re-lit our entire shop.