machine-maintenance

Get help to recondition
enhance or repair
your knitting machine

Know-how to repair knitting machines has become very scarce. However there is a community which can be very helpful to repair and clean knitting machines : the repair cafes. They are very experienced in taking apart an equipment, talking to resisting screws without destroying them. And they are volunteers willing to help people. They are spread all around the world.

Getting help to repair or maintain
A manual knitting machine

Photo kits : a true help for machine maintenance

Your home closest repair cafe probably has never heard about a knitting machine. But they will be excited to learn about it. To help them, the Ludd21 community wants to provide photo kits as a detailed demonstration of maintenance action on a knitting machine. We chose photo kits rather than videos because their environmental impact is lower and they are language independant. Our photo kits are inspired by assembling instructions from IKEA. Take a look at existing photokits and or propose new photokits.

To identify a spare part for your machine, look
into our cutaways to get the part number

Identify spare part

Spare parts providers

You are a spare part providers or you know a spare part provider . Let us know.

You need a spare part, search for one

The spare part you need is out of stock. Register your request. A group of community Members can then fund a remanufacturing of the part.

Out of stock parts

Designing and manufacturing enhancements
for knitting machines

Why not also envisage to design enhancements for some knitting machines. How about a motor that would be common to all knitting machines or a kit to make the Passap duomatic an electronic machine or a kit to have electronic pushers on the back lock of the E6000 Passap/Pfaff machines, or an electronic garter carriage for brother machines or….