CAR Upholstery

Hello there my friends. Well, I've gotten a few comments from people asking me about what sewing machine I use. So It was a Chandler Adler German made, round It was so smooth and so quiet and I wore it out. Never had it serviced ever. But really the parts just wore out. So I thought I would try to find the sewing machine that would last me maybe the next 10 years. Maybe I got 10 years in me. But gosh, that would be 50 years doing this kind of work at that time. But I'll let you in on a little secret. Back in the day, we used to call these junkies, not jookies because the back then they were made in Japan and So what we have here is the Juki Alu 2810 or in other words in Spanish lingo it'd be 2810. The first criteria for my choice was this long arm that you see right here. You see how long that is? Most other sewing machines, commercial sewing machines So about from my hand, this way is the opening but you can see the distance between here and here. That makes it really nice when you're working on large pieces. You can wrap your material in this area here as you're sewing right here. So that is first. The second thing that wasn'too sure I was gonna be getting used to was I used to use a regular light with a regular light bulb just LED light, I guess you can kind of see it right there. In my opinion, it doesn't light up the area as well as a regular incandescent bulb. But it works. I've gotten used to it, I guess. Third is the knee lift, which is what we have right here. So I hit that with my knee, something And when you do that most commercial machines have that, but what I So I can put nice thick materials or I can really raise it up to move the material around. So that's one thing that's really nice about this machine that my other machine didn't have. For feet, I have two different types that I use. This here is called a welt foot. You can see that little notch right there. It's Quarter round shape. What that does is that helps guide the welt through as you're sewing it and keeps it in place. Sometimes I use that. Actually, most of the time I'm using that for everything, but sometimes I've got to use the zipper foot. So I just change this out and put the zipper foot and it works really good for zippers. N So you can see here it says size 92 and that one is the thicker thread that you use for commercial sewing machines, not for a home sewing machine. So what I also use is a heavier top thread. You can see how much thicker that one is as for Although this one here says T270. So I don't know what gives. This does have a bobbin threader. So what you do is you take your thread, you put it through here, you wind it through here and you can wind up your own bobbins. I've never used that. What I use is I use the pre-wound bobbins. So this particular machine here takes m bobbins. So I'm going to show you the difference here between a m and what my old machine used to take, which is the g. So you can see the difference in size between the two. m is a lot bigger than g, which gives you more runtime. So that I would highly recommend. Actually the m is too small for this machine. It's really supposed to take a larger u bobbin, but nobody carries them for some reason. I can't find them. So m is the next best choice. For needles, I use the 135 by 17. N Most commercial machines have a reverse. The older ones don't. So You got to, as you're sewing, you got to stop your stitch. You got to reverse your stitch by hand and then lock it in and then continue. But most modern machines, they have this reverse here. You might be wondering why that is there. Well, I'm going to show you. This is my tip n So what that is I use this to load my bobbins. So what I do is I actually kind of use it here as the hook. Because I can't get my finger in there. I don't have a long fingernail or something. So I use it as a hook to open the door. Then I also use the hook to flip that little arm up right there. And then I also use it to bring up the bobbin. So I pull out the old bobbin. I put in the new bobbin. And then holding the top thread. What I do is I rotate the machine by hand. And it'll pick up that bottom bobbin thread. And then I use it one last time to hook it And I close the door. I'm ready to go. So, One thing that I do have to say that I don't So when I run the machine, it makes a lot of noise. So that's one thing I don't My old machine was so smooth and quiet. But, Now they're Chinese made. And I guess they don't care too much about noise. I hope that answers most of the questions. This will help get you by if you have anything about buying a sewing machine for your next career or upgrading what you have now. And, there's pros and cons, but there is pros and cons to everything, right? So until next time, we'll see ya.