Retrofit a servo motor onto the industrial sewing machine

[goatchurchprime]

According to a friend who stitches wings, it makes a lot of sense to strip out the motor, clutch and heavy flywheel from these sorts of sewing machines and replace it with a modern servo motor using this kit: https://www.college-sewing.co.uk/jk-563a-220v-750w-1hp-servo-motor.html

What you get is a device that controllably make individual stitches and half stitches depending on how you tap the peddle because it is using an encoder and some electronics to deliver the right impulse rather than an inertial flywheel.

[amcewen]

FYI @Jarkman was recommending this sort of upgrade over on Mastodon today (he's got it on his industrial Pfaff)

[Andygwk]

The red sun kit is the one I would use also