Brother KH-900

Brother KH-900
Owner	BuZz
Status	Working
Location	Around the space
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Brother KH-900

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Today I have scored a knittingmachine and a set of accessories. This wikipage is an attempt at documentation.

--buZz (talk) 00:53, 6 June 2014 (CEST)

Want have

• Any spare yarn/wool/thread
• http://www.knitandsew.demon.nl/dk/cartridge-nl.htm
• http://ayab-knitting.com/
• ordered new spongebar
• replacement magnet for K carriage ? or just remagnetize existing one ... actually , seems to be fine now? remagnetized it a bit ..
• KRC-830 color changer ; ebay
• doublebed/ribber!! KR850 or KR830 or KR838 ( -if- i can find this, it would also require KRC-900 instead of KRC-830 )

Items

• KH-900 - The knittingmachine
  • 200 needles
  • needledistance 4.5mm
  • 50 built-in patterns
  • memory for 25920 stitches
  • patterns can be max 24 stitches wide

• KA-7380 - Table for knittingmachines
  • weird, seems a bit unstable ... KH-900 also has included tabled-braces which work a lot better...

• KA-8200 - Intarsia carriage
  • no clue what this is

• KA-9000 - Lace carriage
  • for eh, yeah, lace patterns? not sure

• Knitarsia - Multi Yarn Brake
  • no clue what this is

• Toyota Wool Winder
  • to wind up wool!

• Breiboek
  • this includes some different documents;
    • Original Dutch Pricelist of October 1990
    • Original Dutch Manual
    • Handtyped (and xerox-ed?) knitting instructions, written by 'ria'
    • Manual for the 'L Sled'
    • Previews (in color) of all the patterns.

Wanted Hacks

• Interface to computer and feed designs.

• Automate the carriage. Make it move by itself.

• Knit a hark-sweater!!!

Saved Documents

• File:Brother KH900 Knitting Machine User Manual.pdf
• File:Brother KH900 Service Manual.pdf
• File:Brother KA8200 Intarsia Carriage Manual.pdf

Useful Links

• http://www.machine-knitting.net/
• http://machineknittingetc.com/ ( a LOT of manuals \o/ )
• http://www.ravelry.com/ ( paid patterns? but many are not for machine ...) ( ok some are free, and almost 1000 patterns for machine, sweet)
• http://knititnow.com/
• http://mostlyknittingmachines.weebly.com/
• http://www.absbreimachines.nl/ ( BIG spools of yarn! ~500-1000gram -and- knitting machine parts! neat! )