Circular Sock Knitting Machine for my MOM and YOU!

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<p><i><strong>I LOVE YOU MOM YOUR THE BEST MOM EVER! Please give my mom a HEART!!!</strong></i></p><p>My Mom is a very skilled seamstress. She saw this circular sock knitting machine and I printed it out for her. She was so excited to know I could make this for her. We worked on upgrading it with everything she wanted.</p><p>She is always sewing and knitting and making things for other people. She more than deserved this.&nbsp;</p><p>I combined a lot of upgraded parts and I redesigned parts whenever my mom wanted some changes. She is the expert in sewing and knitting. I can't comment on using the machine. She combines years of sewing and knitting experiance and YouTube (Dean and Bean's Sock Machines as a referance) to become good at using this machine and makes wonderful socks very fast.</p><p>This is a complex print and it requires some assembly, the assembly is very simple. It takes 10 minutes to assemble.&nbsp;</p><p><strong>Using the machine has a VERY high learning curve.</strong></p><p>All the upgrades I have done as per my Mom's requests!&nbsp;</p><p>I added cutouts for the bolt washers. Added marks for the cam adjusters. Added a thread guide insert. I made a template for cutting the table to set the machine into a table. Knurled the cam nuts. Remodeled the main handle. Raised the cam nut guides on the main collar. Fit the cam nuts and cams tighter to the hex bolts and nuts. Made a needle lift tool. I made a screw hole for a hook mount on the setup basket. Remodeled the cams with a clip on the corner to fit better. Clipped corner on the cams go towards each other. My Brother cut the table with the template and he also cut all the needles to length.</p><p>I am including the leg base mounting files but I highly suggest table mounting the machine by using the collar template to cut out a mounting position.</p><p><a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4435634">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4435634</a></p><p>The cylinder is 60 needles.&nbsp;</p><p>I added 48 slot and 54 slot cylinders for this machine. GCode, Slicer, STL, available in the project files. Links below to the origionals. By <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/Gebsews">Gebsews</a>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/gebsews/designs">https://www.thingiverse.com/gebsews/designs</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4573346">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4573346</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4688903">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4688903</a></p><p><strong>I aquired the scad file that the cylinder was made with and another user Josh edited the scad file for the cylinder and added a variable so you can create a cylinder with the amount of slots you would like.</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.printables.com/social/184226-josh/about">https://www.printables.com/social/184226-josh/about</a></p><p><strong>It is uploaded to the project as cylinder_variable.scad. At the top of the file is a $slots variable. Changing this and rendering it in OpenSCAD will generate a new cylinder with the desired number of slots</strong></p><p>The origional project was in german and I translated all the names of the machine parts to english.&nbsp;</p><p>Feel free to print in .20 or higher as I printed in .15 and it requires a lot of print time. I simply wanted the highest quality for my Mom!</p><p>I printed this in PLA.&nbsp;</p><p>PLA works perfectly fine for this machine.&nbsp;</p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p>Here is the hardware you will need. I added close up pictures of the hardware. Its really easy to put together.&nbsp;</p><p>2x 5mm x 25mm hex bolt with nuts for the cam nuts and inside cams</p><p>4x 3mm x 30mm for the cylinder and gear</p><p>1x 6mm x 65mm with nut for the main handle</p><p>2x 3mm x 15mm for the main handle mount</p><p>3x 25mm washers w/ 3 x bolts 36mm (Not in pictures) for the main machine table mount</p><p>1x 3mm x 25mm screw for main handle center mount</p><p>These are the correct needles to order. Brother KR850 replacement. Cut them like in my picture with the hardware. They will fit perfectly. After cut they will be 79mm.</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L819RGX">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08L819RGX</a></p><p><a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/333676947119">https://www.ebay.com/itm/333676947119</a></p><p>This is the spring my mom uses now. She orgionaly used rubber bands but likes this spring a lot more. You can see it in the pictures.</p><p>Sock Machine Cylinder Springs -<br>.110 inches wide</p><p><a href="https://www.angoravalley.com/sockmachines/accessories.html">https://www.angoravalley.com/sockmachines/accessories.html</a></p><p>This is the digital magnetic counter my Mom uses to count her rows. It counts by a magnet on the large gear on bottom.</p><p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DNLRAUA/?coliid=I3TP1857C0CZNF&amp;colid=FXLITOBZT35Z&amp;psc=1&amp;ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it">https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01DNLRAUA/?coliid=I3TP1857C0CZNF&amp;colid=FXLITOBZT35Z&amp;psc=1&amp;ref_=lv_ov_lig_dp_it</a></p><p>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</p><p>This is the origional creator and files. <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/difl">Dieter Flemmigdifl</a> difi</p><p><a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3310883">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3310883</a></p><p>The upgraded cylinder.</p><p><a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4665553">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4665553</a></p><p>I added 48 slot and 54 slot cylinders for this machine. GCode, Slicer, STL, available in the project files. Links below to the origionals. By <a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/Gebsews">Gebsews</a>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/gebsews/designs">https://www.thingiverse.com/gebsews/designs</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4573346">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4573346</a></p><p><a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4688903">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4688903</a></p><p>The upgraded small gear. After haveing been notified by someone I took a closer look at this model. It was very messy, I then remodeled the center parts. Although it sliced fine with PrusaSlicer people were having problems with other slicers. I uploaded the new model and it should work better if you have any problems please let me know.</p><p><a href="https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4603052">https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4603052</a></p><p>The YouTube creator my mom watches to learn how to use the machine and make wonderfull socks! Dean and Bean's Sock Machines! She uses there youtube videos and downloadable PDF files for referance to learn from. They also sell sock knitting machine I highly suggest checking them out.</p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNqtUpqKexDmHTqHfdkbsnQ">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNqtUpqKexDmHTqHfdkbsnQ</a></p><p>If you would like to please contact me and I will forward any questions to my Mom and will get you an answer.</p><p>&nbsp;</p>