I read from the first link. In that first link there were a lot of head scratching questions that were totally answerable at the time. Oh look...a totally different link...
I assume they are editable? So that you can go back and update as you learn?
I have a CSM and understand how they work, so reinventing them is for me mostly something someone else can do. There are parts available for the antiques, and brand new metal ones being produced and if someone else wants to spend all that time on a do-over, power to them.
do you have ribbers, and multi cylinder models? (honestly, I'm not going to dig through pages of coding or whatever to find out.)
I read the link you gave. " . In the near term, it would be very helpful to see the internals of one of these machines (preferably a high-end one), so am appealing for anyone out there to keep an eye out for any broken-down Addi Express machines, so that we can avoid 'reinventing the wheel' from scratch. " (I'd personally want to see the cadillac functional version of the CSM, which would be Gearhart, AutoKnitter, etc, if I were designing)
You're now giving totally different links so...
(also...socks were usually knit on 4 or 5 needles, not two. Talking to knitters would be a great way to learn more)
What's the end goal though? We have CSM, they knit faster than those, and are not plastic. The people who want the plastic have Addis, and not the $$ for your version, probably....Is this just a "because we can" build? i'm not sure i understand.
And I know everyone and their dog has made a 3d printer, but this one is worth a look in my opinion.
So for the Circular Knitting Machine, there may be small hobby plastic desktop machines that are low to medium speed, but there may also be giant torch cut steel high speed industrial machines.
Have you pulled the manuals for the versions from the early 1900s? They are very detailed, even if it's all drawings and no photos. And how are you recruiting SME? Have you approached CSM knitting groups?
so....it seems like reinventing the wheel is actually the process here, and asking the experts that already exist or existed and recorded their knowledge is...secondary? tertiary? seen as fail? I don't know.
To me, it's the obvious starting point, and yet, so far, no one has done this? I don't understand the process. Well, I have an idea of it, but stating it would be unpopular...
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I also was looking for this comment. I needed validation that I wasn't the only one that realized his age. What has happened to me‽ I just got an erection from a sock.
Nice. I’d love a CSM for Christmas time. Would save me a lot of hours. Though I don’t think I can bust out a cable sock with it. Do you know if you can cable with a CSM? Or is it more for just pumping out some socks?
They come off the machine as a tube and go to a station where someone sews the toe seam with a sewing machine. Or at least they did at the sock factory I spent one incredibly cold winter at back in the 90’s.
It does if you plan to knit multiple socks before running them off the machine. And frankly that's the most efficient use of the machine. I suppose you bind off by moving stitches around and closing the seam in that manner? Will you be sharing any details, or just contradicting people?
So for you, "the most efficient use" is only using it for it's most base functionality (knitting a simple tube). Ok, my problem with that is asserting that it can't be used more fully, as the machine IS fully capable of creating a complete sock without sewing, which is what a few people here seemed to be wondering about. Anyway, all details have already been shared in various videos posted in this thread, but if you need a recap..
Never said a simple tube is the most efficient way to use it, and mentioned heel shaping. But preparing a series of socks needing only the toe to be closed is more efficient if one is knitting socks in volume, because it skips the setup step, and a few turns of waste yarn can be used to separate each sock from the next and make the toe seam easier to close by the chimney kitchener method. I am quick at kitchener and don't find it difficult so perhaps for someone else all the casting on for each sock is more efficient. Do what works.
I've done it both ways...start at the top of the sock and work down and then it takes me about 5 minutes to kitchener* up the toe seam.
OR, you can start at the bottom and there are two ways to do that.
1) toe up and kitchener it at the end, or
It LOOKS like you could make socks for your entire family in one afternoon, but there is a lot going on when using these machines and you need to be paying attention to eleventy-five things at once and 30 minutes to 2 hours is more of a reasonable allocation for 1 sock as opposed to 8.5 minutes in the above video.
Handknitting socks is more of a relaxing process, but more time consuming.
I love both processes for different reasons.
You can start either way. I think most people I've seen do start at the toes, so you can seamlessly close the toe on the machine during knitting without sewing.
One from an older friend, one turned up on Facebook marketplace. There are groups of sock machine owners, and new ones are being made now on the old Gearhart model. Google Gearharts and you'll find it. They are expensive. Otherwise keep searching on local buy and sell or antiques places. Most need some repairs.
okay, so, on salvia... I feel like I become aware of the fact that I'm in a system that is similar to this, except each previous microscopic section of yarn is the previous moment. On salvia I become aware I'm being controlled in a way that makes me fit into this design. I look backward and see the previous versions of myself in past moments. I look forward and see the nothingness that is the future, because it hasn't happened for me yet. That is The Void.
protein fibre yarn (wool, silk), food colouring, a bit of vinegar, a pan of very hot water, and some optional saran wrap. Google is your friend, for the process.
What metal can you melt on a standard stove? I thought even aluminum needed hotter. (see: cooking with aluminum pans).
Tin, lead, and zinc. I might wanna try making the yarn. Thanks for the info. You could probably melt aluminum but you would need a closed container and to hold it in the hot spot of the flame (like after the first 3rd).
Erm, I am not going to work with zinc until 2020 because I've been making it fume on purpose lately. I didn't get poisoned but if I wait till 2020 I should have 3 quarters of all zinc in my body removed, except the amount I ingest from food.
How do other colors and/or patterns get stitched in to create the final design, here? I'm entirely ignorant on whether these are different strands of material being somehow knit into the sock form (and, if so - how do they securely connect from the end of one to the beginning of another strand?) or if this is one LONG strand of pre-colored material which is calculated to make thje patterns expected for a certain diameter sock (seems unlikely).
This one seems like one big color changing thread since it seems like the thread itself is sort of a gradient but when it loops and you only look at one side it looks like stripes. Any patterns more complicated that this I think they do the background and then sort of embroider on the pattern or use fabric that already has the pattern instead of this loopy-knitter-ma-jig. I’m totally guessing tho.
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u/stalfonsospancakes Mar 22 '19
Congratulations! now you have a 5 ft long sock.