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I went to visit Candiani Denim, outside of Milan, two years ago.
Their selvedge fabrics alle come from a collection of 40-50 vintage shuttle looms. To see the amount of bodging and hacking to keep the running consistently, without any original spare parts available anymore, was amazing. Quite a few San Pellegrino can shims I'm sure.Where abouts are you based, out of curiosity?
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Nice, if you're in the Milan region then jump the fence at the old Borri shoe factory in Busto Arsizio. It's gutted and empty but a good bit of history to visit. The textile museum has some awesome machines (probably the same as you saw in the factory).
The shim worked fine to increase tension, and wrapping a scrap of leather where a rubber dampener had come off elsewhere, it stitches now. Nearly snapped the good needle messing about though.
I'm near Pescara in Abruzzo, using a room at the gf's grandma's. This afternoon is the stress of trying to move salvaged office desking down the road so I have surfaces to work and measure.
pdlouche
Had an hour to faff about, got one of the threads running well but the loops on top were too loose. Then I realised why - tension clip on bobbin shuttle was busted. Thread was spinning way too easily. Spent an hour trying to get a workaround to increase lower tension to no avail, but at least it was picking up the thread.
Gotta wait til tomorrow morning and buy a can of San Pellegrino for the tin. Cokecan shims always worked on bikes so they must work on sewing machines too right?