Comments on: Industrial sewing machines pt 2

By: Michelle

Michelle — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 04:48:51 +0000

Hi, I came across this as about the only google search result for instruction manuals for a Kansai Special W8103f! I recently bought one second hand and it came with no manual. I have never used a coverstitch or industrial machine before and was hoping to be able to locate a manual online. Can anyone help?

By: carlos

carlos — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 02:51:58 +0000

Just found this site and articles are great. I really need to know how to use and handle better my “w8103d″ machine, when it skip a stitch it drives me crazy… if anyone has a manual could make me a copy or if anyone has any info where to acquire one I would really appreciate it. Thank you.

By: rizwana rehman

rizwana rehman — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 22:11:27 +0000

Hi Gigi
Very nice blog :) My friend gave me a Kansai Special w-8103-F, I love sewing but i’ve never used an ‘industrial’ sewing machine before. i have no idea how to use it. Can anybody help me learn how to use the machine?

thank you!

By: Saumaria

Saumaria — Wed, 15 Jun 2011 02:38:53 +0000

Hi Gigi,
Great blog, I was wondering if you could help me, I just purchased a kansai special wx-8803f and my bottom thread broke and I have no idea how to get it re threaded……I have a manual but it doesn’t cover it. Any information would be helpful. Thank You So Much!

By: jody

jody — Sun, 05 Dec 2010 01:44:27 +0000

Q- I have a small dance costume business, and use my babylock imagine serger, and my janome cover-pro equally as much, however I want to use a wider tapebinder than the janome comes with. Also they are incredibly finicky/frustrating to use! So, whiat industrial machine would be the most usefull. serger and coverstich with top stich capability as welll as binding.
Also, since I’m now used to my babylock air threading, just how complicated are they to thread?

By: Industrial sewing machine attachments

Industrial sewing machine attachments — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:17:12 +0000

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By: ANOLAN

ANOLAN — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 01:48:46 +0000

TO DOWNLOAD A SPEC: MANUAL (GOGGLE for EX; INSTRUCTION KANSAI RX SERIES).
I WAS ABOVE TO FIND A FEW SERIES LIKE THIS TO DOWNLOAD FOR FREE.
THE SITE ALSO LIST AT BOTTOM AND WITH THE MANUAL http://www.kansai.org.us
THANKS//
ANOLAN

By: Dolores

Dolores — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:33:50 +0000

Hi, I have just found your web sit and thing its great, can you please tell me where I can get A kansai Manual the model number is W-8103 F, I bought it 2nd hand so it never came with one.

Thanking you Dolores

By: Juan José

Juan José — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 01:36:15 +0000

Hi, I really need to know how to use my “w8103″ machine, if anyone has a manual I really apreciate that could borrow me, thanks a lot, and waiting for your help.

By: Tristan

Tristan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 05:44:09 +0000

I recently bought a 20U TacSew, and I have to admit I absolutely hate this machine. The thing jams all the time. Right out of the box the thing jammed, and the timing had to be adjusted. The head weighs sixty pounds, so I had to drag the thing into a shop where the repair guy charged me $100 bucks. I get it home, threaded it, and bam, it jammed again. Ugh. It won’t even budge. I have had the thing almost a month now, and I haven’t sewed a stitch. The manual is almost all in Japanese, and the English portions were apparently translated by a Japanese person because they don’t make sense and are impossible to understand.

I know that a lot of home industrial machine owners say that they love their industrial machine, but there are just as many who say that they are heavy, smell like oil, are expensive to fix, break, or jam often if you don’t thread them just right. I have two domestic machines, and they never jam, and if they do, I simply take out the balled up thread and carry on. They never smell or stop working, they just keep going and going, and they have a lot more features than most industrial machines. Plus, because of the warranty, if they break, I can gather up the pieces and take it back to the store, or worst case scenario, ship it back to the company.

Of course I know not all industrial machines are as bad as the one I have, and I also admit that I didn’t really do my homework before I bought one. I didn’t stop to think that industrial machines might need more care and maintenance than a domestic machine, that they were heavier, and noisier, and that they might smell of oil.

So for all of you out there thinking about getting an industrial machine, do your research.

Now, how to get rid of this this 165 pound nightmare.