September 30th, 2012, 06:39 AM
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Re: Inbro out of the ashes???
Hey Rob,
That's the machine.
Inbro replaced the head on the machine with a pneumatic system. The thread traveled through tubes to the single needle on the machine. When the machine changed threads it would trim the old one then a puff of air would blow the thread to the needle and thread it. During the stitchout in the event of a thread break the machine would re-thread itself then resume stitching. It was pretty amazing technology.
I saw a working one in the distributors warehouse and the stitch quality on the self threaders seemed to be above average. I keep getting a lot of inquiries for parts for the self-threader, and I hear a lot of horror stories about customers paying thousands of dollars for the machine and it never throwing a stitch. I understand that the old-new system was plagued by bugs, like the underpowered air-compressor and a few of the electronics did not work as expected. Supposedly those issues are being addressed in this newer system.
They sent me a video of the new machine stitching out a picture of the Mona Lisa. You cant really determine stitch quality from the video but the video was cool.
The older, traditional style, machines were probably as good a quality as a SWF or possibly even Tajima.
I was just wondering if there were any owners of the self threader that were happy with the machine.
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