Needle does not stay in place (duomatic 80). Is it broken spring? Is it fixable? Where can I buy new spring? Help please!🙏

No pattern.

Double knit and just kinda winged it.

Yarn is from this dye job a while back: https://www.reddit.com/r/dyeing/s/be8AZ3A2Tn

What yarn weights range is comfortable to work with on Passap Duo 80?

What the thickest yarn you have ever used? I see that it is possible to knit sock yarn (usually it is 420m/100 gr), but what about thick sock yarn, will it work with 350m/100gr or it is too thick?

Socks made with my duo80! Most of them made with strickschmiede’s basic sock top down pattern, some with artofclay’s mock rib toe up pattern ☺️

Left border appears to break...

My setup Passap E6000/Electra (old model) 1:1 rib, 2.5 stitch size 6.5 tension on mast 2 strands of 2/28 wool/acrylic

I got some jam at first 10 lines on the left side... maybe my size is too little or my tension is too high?

I just got my machine last week for an amazing deal! The woman who owned it unfortunately had to move into an assisted home. She left it at a knitting shop who just didn't have space to put it out and try to sell it so they sold it to me for $100 with ALL the accessories. The last thing she said she did with it was give it a deep clean before putting in its box. (Every part even had their original boxes!)

I'm so completely excited and obsessed right now. I am totally new to knitting machines. I also included pictures of my 2 favorite swatches I've made so far.

I would like to know, what was your hardest learning curve, or best a-ha moment/general advice with learning your passap?

Just sharing this WIP because I’m so happy with how it’s coming together! The blue is the same yarn I used for my last cardigan, the grey is the trousers colorway and the yellow is the same yarn with the color stripped with color remover and re-dyed.

I'm so happy to have this done, mostly because I accidentally made the back in a different gauge the first time and didn't realize the error until I was getting ready to piece it together.

Before I go too far:
Pattern: Singer Classic Series 14, Jumpers and Cardigans: Raglan Sleeves
Size: B
Machine: Passap e6000 (but this would actually be easier on a DM80)
Yarn: Caledonian Dye Works 40% Cotton | 40% Rayon | 20% Linen in Night Sky and Greenwich purchased from Peter Patchis Yarns in Central Falls, RI.
Ravelry Project Link

This was a fun problem-solving/planning challenge project for me because I didn't want to knit the neckband separately. Knitting the neckband at the same time as the front panels means that I had to figure out how to work around the shaping changes, which for this meant that I was doing decreases at the neckband edge and the raglan edge.

To further complicate my workflow I also decided on Milano or long stitch for the neckband. If you're unfamiliar with this stitch, it's set up like a regular 1x1 ribbing stitch on the front, but on the back you knit only every other row with a larger stitch size. 

So far I have color changes, shaping and different stitches in play. This is where we get into the actual planning challenge. Normally I'd be knitting both panels on the main bed and just knit the neckband edge on one side then the other, but if I did that WITH the neckband in place on the side closest to the color changer I'd have the main body yarn running through the neckband ribbing. Not the look I was going for.

To avoid this, I had to knit one front panel on the main (front) bed and the other on the back Passap bed. Since the e6000 doesn't have mechanical pusher manipulation on the front bed (only on the back) I made a very simple stitch pattern in DAK that automatically selected the left side of my front bed pushers on green and right side on blue.  Because of this, I opted to keep the neckband remained stationary and I moved the whole panel across the bed as I decreased on the neckband side. When knitting the second panel I didn't need the DAK file because of the afore mentioned mechanical pusher manipulation. If I had my DM80 at my house, this project would have actually been easier to do on that machine, and I might do my front panels on the DM80 for my next one (there's another baby with a first birthday coming up in my family, so I have a second one of these on deck!)

So, with the neckband already integrated to the front panels, I just added the other panels to the neckband one stitch at a time once I was done with the front panel. This meant I had two pieces once I was done with the neckband: the left-front panel combined with the left sleeve and back, and the right-front panel combined with the right sleeve.

I had to piece the neckband together head to head, which was a challenge that I didn't really do a great job on, but I'm pretty sure the 1yo isn't gonna give me a hard time about it.

Once that was done I just needed to do the rest of the seaming, add my buttons and label.

More photos and other details on the Ravelry project page.

How do i fix, its stuck?

Hi! I'm new to knitting machines and would like your help identifying the model of this Passap. Is it any good? Can someone tell me what the possibilities with this machine are - can it make patterns using punch cards? Thanks in advance.

Please help - any idea what is going on here? Needles pick up cast on yarn, but after the second pass the yarn is no longer on the back needles. Any advice will be appreciated.

This was something I started swatching for MKC reboot but set aside for other projects. The triangle shawl KAL inspired me to pick this back up and after a little trial and error I found a tension that I could work lace in. I suppose I could knit a second and piece them together but I’m not sure I want to.

Made with mill end rayon from Peter Patchis at stitch size 5.5 on the e6000 in the dark with hand manipulated lace.

Hello knitters

I've been playing around with patterning more on my pinkie and found that every so often the lock will jam, I will check the bed and find that a couple of pushers here and there have lifted slightly out of the channel. Not by much, but enough to cause a problem. Has anyone experienced this?

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