http://www.needlefeed.com / Inquiring of Industrious Sewing & Industrial Sewing Machines. Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:11:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With the upcoming move of the Brother DB2-B791-015 edging ever closer it was time to tackle the next big addition to the production facilities roster. Because the new location would afford the Brother ample room for larger and even more complicated endeavors, it was time to build specialized platforms to ... http://www.needlefeed.com/cutting-surfaces-material-feed-systems/ It is official, July 30th 2008 marks the Needlefeed's first birthday. It has been a long time coming with some up's and some down's. Or in's and out's - as the Needlefeed is no advocate of hierarchies. A little re-cap of some of the things we have seen this year ... http://www.needlefeed.com/needlefeed-turns-a-year-over/ Here are a couple of visual updates to an old post that mentioned a few industrial sewing machine shops in Chicago Illinois. They are scattered about from the far south end of the loop, to the near northwest side. We'll start with a few screen captures off of Google Maps, ... http://www.needlefeed.com/chicago-shops/ The Moccasin post, finally. A little intro first. There have been two sheets/pieces/parts-of-hide laying around the materials bin for over a year now. This leather was received in trade for a pair of sunglasses, to be used for shoes at a later date. Both pieces together were roughly large enough for ... http://www.needlefeed.com/rambling-notes-on-moccasins/ Here is what was new in constructing the Mini Messenger bag: 500 denier Cordura 2" dive belt webbing Coats DB-92 polyester thread For all intents and purposes this is a simple bag. The 500 denier Cordura was a good light-weight alternative to work with instead of using the 1000 denier body and Ballistics boot. ... http://www.needlefeed.com/rambling-notes-on-mini-messenger/ Call it a test, an exercise, a reduction, congealing, or protrusion; whatever those may be, can all suit what became a temporary choice to appease necessity. With the walking bag behind us, and a soon to be considered "messenger bag" on the horizon, a simple vessel would provide two things: ... http://www.needlefeed.com/rambling-notes-on-dow-pack/ Some (profane) complaints have been recieved as to no recent updates, especially after claiming there would be updates made. Here is a quick run down of some recent projects/findings: all of which can hopefully become thier own posts, but due to extreme lack of time, these current topics are without sufficient ... http://www.needlefeed.com/divying-it-up-addendum/ This is the final section of the parts book. As always, it is loaded with diagrams and information. Perhaps the most important aspect to this last lot of pages, are the five which illustrate the many different standard presser feet and thier accompanying throat plates and feed dogs which can ... http://www.needlefeed.com/brother-db2-b791-b7910-parts-book-section-3/ This is the next installment of the Parts Book. Notice again, that every two pages compliment each other: first the diagrammatic view, then the list view. Sometimes there are repeated diagrammatic views, because the list view needed one more page to itemize the corresponding parts. More to come, in the ... http://www.needlefeed.com/brother-db2-b791-7910-parts-book-section-2/ Apologies all around in advance for not addressing industrial sewing machine issues lately. For now the Brother DB2-B791-015 has been a workhorse with close to no bugs for working out, which makes for a pretty bland series of product entries (posts), instead of interesting investigations of these dense contraptions. Fortunately, ... http://www.needlefeed.com/divying-it-up/