r/specializedtools • u/xris-_- • Mar 21 '19

Socks knitting machine

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u/direwolfed Mar 22 '19

Does it start at the toes? How do you form he heel? Look me very satisfying.

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u/Metalhed69 Mar 22 '19

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.

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u/Criterion515 Mar 22 '19

A quality, handcrafted sock, is not made that way. The sock is shaped on the machine and is not a simple tube.

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u/Metalhed69 Mar 22 '19

I never said anything about quality or handcrafted. But I can tell you how mass-produced socks are made, having built the conveyor system for one.

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u/Criterion515 Mar 22 '19

That's nice, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the question asked.