On May 14, 2008, at 1:34 PM, Lavolta Press wrote: > And here I thought precision machining had improved over the years > too.
Oh, it has, but that doesn't change the design of a knitting machine bed. A modern knitting machine bed is usually a long chunk of aluminum with small carefully spaced machined channels in which the needles lie. It's a simple and effective design, with very tight tolerances. The practicality of engineering a bed with variable-depth and variable- width channels so hundreds of needles can be replaced with a different number of different-sized needles that require different spacing in the same area is absurd. andy _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
