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You're very welcome I hope my videos help you.

Didn't you get them with the machine? You can use a Ruler if you don't have cards. To get them to forward working position, push your needles back until the open latches rest on the cast on elastic.

You're very welcome, I remember making this video it seems like yesterday.

Thank you, you're very welcome.

Ive just finished my first ever knitting project on the bond: a sweater for my niece! I learned everything from your videos, not an exaggeration. Thank you so much. You are an incredible teacher, and made the knitting machine far less intimidating. My sweater may be a little wonky, but it taught me so much and has given me confidence in the craft. Im so proud to finally be able to make this comment. Thank you from the depths of my heart for being such a wonderful teacher, david ❤

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On that machine you carefully pull out the plastic rail where the needle needs to be changed, use some small pliers and some material to protect it be gentle! Replace your needle and put the slot back, gently tap it in with something, not a hammer though.

The Velcro, no you don't need them at all. It was not one of their better ideas, they thought it would make them fit more snugly into the Carriages but they made no difference to it!

@@daviemac9925 thank you, I was trying to glue them back on! So I just don’t have to do that, good!

The brackets shouldn't be in the way, they're underneath the beds. The problem with just the original 100 needle beds and the Ribber Carriages is running them to the end they come off. 40 each side is probably the limit. you can knit If you can get hold of them, fit the extension kits. What I ended up doing with my Ribber was getting the extension kit and using it with the Classic Plus.

@@daviemac9925 oh thank you Davie! I put an extension on the main bed, earlier! Is there a video on how to put extensions on the ribber? Is it easy enough to figure out, if I take the metal plate off of the ribber?

@@knit1924 Hello. I've never seen a video on fitting the Ribber extension, You take the metal plate off the main Ribber and join the extension the same way as you did the main bed. Then refit the metal plate so it covers the extension, fill the gap in at the other end by attaching the metal plate that comes with the Ribber extension kit. It's really important that you do it this way round, if you replace the Ribber plate as was and fit the extension plate to the new piece, it could snap off when knitting.

@@daviemac9925 thank you so much, Davie. So, the way I understand you is, I would definitely have to put both extensions on the ribber bed?

@@knit1924 It should be one piece, as you have to overlap the long metal bed over the extension side, then fit the short length to the other end, to stop the bed snapping in two.

The Elephant.

@@daviemac9925which one; the one on the ground or the one in the tree?

@@phenogen8125 1:58 while I'm waiting at the top of the hill after the strange woman decided to drive round the road marking. It's stood up on the bank, it's apparently some local art project and there'll be a Giraffe there next month. While I'm doing my best not to let rip when the corner cutter near takes my headlamps out.

I keep meaning to find the time to remake them all.

@@daviemac9925 I hope you manage to find time when it's convenient. Cheers!

Bond used to recommend pinning it up, but I always found that way stretched the work and left holes in the kitting.

Which model is it please, Elite or any of the others?

@@daviemac9925 I think it is the regular Bond with the purple carriage. Thanks.

@@annesummers09 Look at my machine in the video, see the red rail at the front, (yours maybe a different colour) run your finger along and see do you feel any raised part. Then check along the back row, they should be smooth with no bits sticking up. That's the most common sticking point on these older machines. Can you put the carriage on with no knitting and no keyplate in and slide it back and too? Try that first and then get back to me.

@@daviemac9925 No raised parts, it rides smoothly. It knits the cast on row but no more rows after that.

@@annesummers09 If it's the USM Ultimate Sweater Machine, there was a design fault with them. Unfortunately, they are now out of business, the only thing to do is to try and get hold of an older carriage and keyplates and if that doesn't solve the problem, we aren't going to be able to. They said it was an issue with the moulding of the plastic parts, unlike Bond UK they contracted everything out, whereas here everything was made on site. I'm sorry this isn't the positive outcome I like for people.

Thank you.

Hi The circular cast on is just a way of making a closed edge cast on when working on a twin bed set up, it's complicated to knit a circle but can be done. You would need to cast on all needles on both sides and knit the back bed then the front, that's the only way to do it. Every row you would have to stop and change the keyplate over from one side to the other.

You're very I'm welcome glad to be able to help.

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When you're knitting regular rows with all your working needles at the regular working position, it doesn't matter whether they're open or not, as they will open automatically and close again as you knit across the row. If you have needles in the forward position, then you do need to check before knitting that latches are open, or you'll lose the stitches! The brush is OK if you haven't got a cut off credit card.

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You're welcome and good luck. The Bond is really easy when you get the hang of it.

I'm really well thank you, hope you are too.

As were the Bond instructions, always with the carriage on the right hand side.

Click on the link in the description, I'm sure they still make them. There's also a woman in Australia who makes cast on hems from Leather. www.ebay.co.uk/usr/tassiejanknitting/

The Elite is pretty rare now, it went out of production in 2000. The odd one still crops up from time to time, but it's mostly here or the USA and as you say the shipping is astronomical.

@@daviemac9925 yeah, I did see one in the UK the other day, but there were bits missing, still I really enjoy using my bond USM, I'd also like to get the keypads that have the half size on one side, but they're rare as well.

You can't put a counter on the fashion knitter, on the Classic, Classic +, Home Knitter, USM and ISM it snaps under the back of the bed in the middle.

@@daviemac9925 I have a row counter that came with my bond, but I've not been able to get it to snap onto the bed, I've even watched a video I found that was done by a fella called joey Cole (the sweater factory) and its not bad instruction, but I think the counter I have must be for another machine.

@@howlingwind1937 I wonder if the one you've got is meant for the Elite?

@@daviemac9925 maybe? Where it's suppose to clip onto the bed, into those nubs, the grooves or whatever they're called, on the row counter are v shaped as apposed to square shaped so there's no way it's going to attach. I have thought of using a file on it to make it the right shape but not sure if that's a good idea or not. I don't have an elite and haven't actually physically seen one so I couldn't say. Cheers!