okay so this is called the fabricator and it's an industrial walking foot machine and the reason we
got it is because a lot of people were asking to work on leather canvasses sales real heavy
upholstery fabrics and whatnot so I did practice on this the other day and I went through twelve
layers of jeans here and the stitch is absolutely beautiful there is 12 layers in there very thick
there are different sized needles for this machine and all the equipment for this machine is right
here first of all we have our threads our scissor our ruler or a measuring tape and our manual that
we will be referring to a lot for this machine and our draw here that has different sized needles 14
16 18 and 20 and that that's the range for this machine you're going to be using heavy thread
so you need a heavy needle time so those are always in this machine and these do not work
on the portable machines that we also have in the department this is an industrial machines
that they're much longer and the machine go of the needle goes from left to right so your whole would
be facing left to right and there is a I should explain there is a back and a front to the needle
the back has a little dent in it and the front has a smooth surface so the back has a little bubble
little dent in it and that would be the back so it would go in the machine this way sideways so
this is the front you would go from left to right okay okay and we also have different bobbins look
at these bobbins they're huge they're much larger than the other machine so of course they're not
gonna work with the portal machine so we're gonna go through the bobbin first because if you're
going to be changing the thread and working on your project you're gonna need a new bobbin so the
bobbin is is on the side of the Machine and the I did have a little trouble getting really hard
okay and this is where the thread comes from this can be lowered and adjusted but we're gonna leave
it at this height it's fine but the thread comes from the back so this is the back of the machine
it comes from the back well let me just do it from the back to the front so right through this hole
okay and then it comes down and it goes through detention which is to the left and you bring it up
through the tension and then through this hole and that guides the bobbin okay and then we wrap it
and leave yourself a tail and lock it to turn on the machine you have to go down here to the
motor and then you'll see these red lights it's on but this is the motor so this runs the whole
machine ok so we're on but with an industrial machine I don't gonna turn this light on for
the machine now this is adjustable you can put it anywhere you like I don't like it right in front
of my face I like it over here to the side and get it right on the needle ok so if you need to
refer to the instruction book it's always right here in our little box for the fabricator that's
what this machine is called and it actually is made by sailrite so they make sales and here's
the winding the bobbin okay so first I put the bobbin on go through the tension and then up
through this the guider and then wrap it around your bobbin I did it exactly the way they said
push push this in to lock it okay make sure that the belt is up against this wheel because that's
going to because sometimes it slips off so make sure the belt is up on the wheel okay the machine
is on but you have to get the thread out of the needle this is not a regular machine where the
needle stops moving this move this needle is going to move while you're winding a bobbin you
can also wind a bobbin while you're sewing so if you have a big project you should have two
threads up here the same color you're using one to thread the bobbin and one to work because um they
they fill up very quickly um they don't give you a lot of thread on this I have to adjust that a
little bit to make it more so anyway we've got to get our thread out of the and our there's always
a piece of fabric in the machine when you start so we're moving the needle up okay and this foot
here there is a lever here to lift up the front on the machine itself so that's manually but we
also have a knee lift and we have found that the knee lift will go up but it also stays up okay
which is which is probably a good thing until until you move the wheel and then it goes down
so you want to lift it off get your fabric out okay and then we're going to get the thread out
of the needle and I also recommend that you take out the bobbin for this also so we need to open
this up and get the bobbin out okay so there's our bobbin case and that's got black in it we're
gonna switch to white okay so we need to hold on to this because we don't want it to get tangled
because this is gonna be all moving while we so while we find our bobbin rather okay hold on to
your tail for the bobbin and the foot just went down and you'll see that the foot is moving the
needles moving but I'm also winding a bobbin pad for lifting the foot is your shuttle pedal
for the gas you know for the movement of this machine if you go very slightly it's gonna go
slow but if you push it harder it's gonna go fast you want to have your foot up when you're winding
a bobbin and this bobbin when it gets full let's make you [ __ ] and stop there it goes so we're
done doing the bobbin so we want to cut this off and it's a little stiff I'm gonna have to loosen
this up but I get it off if I can do it you can do it okay so now to put the bobbin in the case
to the top and facing you drop it into the bobbin bring it over to this little
niche here see that where the thread goes and then you lock it in and then it goes
over the top and it should move clockwise okay turn it around get your lever okay and
you go underneath the Machine and up into the bobbin case probably if you come up here okay
and you just lock it in push it in all the way that it goes lock it and we don't have
any thread in the we're gonna take out this black thread so that's the bobbin and we're
gonna bring up the thread in a little while okay okay so I'm going to take this black thread out
and we are going to wind it okay when you have three holes or two holes you always
work from the same side so we work from the front to the back okay one front to back
two three okay we have two holes here front just to the center and front to the center
okay so see how they wrap around the paratus here
at a and that goes through the back to the front okay this is B we just did C and now
D is the tension and it goes over the top okay then through this hole which is e and we may
end up marking all these on the machine but you have your book here to help you out and now we're
going through the tension of the machine and we want to get in that hook and then you bring it
down on this hook this one bring your hook up this one you have to thread through there is
no hook on the hook which some of the other portable machines have a hook here this one
does not okay and then we're up to that was G f H H I J this is K and it gets a little tight
when it goes to the tension so you might have to help yourself along here cuz it's a really
tight tension I think I should loosen it okay that's okay now we're gonna go down to L and
then there's a little hole here that is M and they did it magically to make n your last hole
which is the needle you have to bring the needle all the way to the top make sure your foot is down
there we go okay make your needle go all the way up you can actually sit your hand right on this
bar rest here and then through the needle it has a very large needle in there so it's very easy to
thread okay and now we're going to bring up our bobbin thread you do that manually with the wheel
to bring up the loop and you'll see a loop okay make sure your foot is not near the pedal when
you're working near the needle okay that can be dangerous okay so we've got both threads up and
I just want to get this bobbin thread underneath the I'm using my leather and my knee to get this
in and we're ready to sew okay this is an industrial machine it does work faster than
normal machines so be careful with that and I have an upholstery fabric here which also has
like a sticky back so if you work on this on a regular machine it just might not work the
walking foot will walk over it and you'll see that now we have found that the lever for the
knee lifts up the foot and leaves it up there until you're ready to sew so when you hit the
pedal or hit the wheel the foot will come down okay and there it goes so we're ready to sew
I'm just stepping on the pedal I'm going very slow and in order to go into reverse you want to
make sure there's nothing underneath this lever because you know if you had a spool of thread
here or something that would stop you because you need to push it all the way down to go backwards
okay and then go forward you see how the foot walks okay and also the the measurements on the
machine our quarter inch 1/2 inch 3/4 and an inch they don't go by 5/8 and most of the time with
an industrial equipment and upholstery stuff half inch seams are usually very okay so you don't pull
you don't push your own job you let the machine do its work and you can go very fast but that's
when you get used to the machine ok I'm at the end so I'm gonna back stitch and I'm gonna take
this out make sure your needle is all the way up in order to pull this out otherwise if the thread
may break and it just did no problem it's right here ok I find that the tension is very tight and
I think it has to be for this heavy thread ok so you just have to rethread your last three LM n ok
there we go
your foot has to be down to thread the needle okay all right so that's pretty much it it's
soaked really nicely and now I'm going to go to the outside and topstitch it okay like I said your
your level for your knee host a foot off until you get ready to sew and then when you sew it drops
down so you can go pretty fast but you can also go very slow and make sure your hands are away
do not have your fingers way up here I'll wing because that's a very thick meat okay there you go