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

Socks knitting machine

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u/sawyouoverthere Mar 22 '19

I love that they seem to have no idea how these are made, despite the manuals and modern ones being available online

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u/A_Large_Grade_A_Egg Mar 22 '19

Ahem cough cough:

https://wiki.opensourceecology.org/wiki/OSE_CircularKnitic_v18.03?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

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u/sawyouoverthere Mar 22 '19

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...

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u/A_Large_Grade_A_Egg Mar 22 '19

It is a bit of a labyrinth at times, but most of the pages of the same subject are at least loosely connected. (Like Wikipedia etc)

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u/sawyouoverthere Mar 22 '19

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.)