Gabriel L Romeu wrote: > > > If she is able to sew the neoprene well on the home machine, please tell > > me how she did it. > > Sounds like your mother is a better seamstress as I am a seamster, but I > assume you tried a teflon coated foot. I think the Teflon works better in politics than in neoprene <g>. A walking foot might be useful, though -- it has teeth on the top of the fabric which also move in synchrony with the teeth underneath the fabric. Mausered seams are prefered in wetsuits -- less bulk to chafe you. I'm really curious how this all turns out. I have to repair a wet suit that got slit up the leg from ankle to crotch to get a broken leg out of it. I think I may just rejoin the edges with Aquaseal and call it good. The part of sewing seams on a tailored wet suit that boggles me is making a Mausered seam up the arm or leg -- how do you get the arm of the machine inside the (small diameter) tube? Only thing I can figure is that the commercial manufacturers use a special, verrrrrry looong, veerrrry narrrrrow free arm. -- Dave Kruger Astoria, OR *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jan 18 2000 - 22:06:11 PST
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