Pieces and Parts Everywhere!

So my father decided to buy the whole kit when he bought the knitting machine so my machine has all the bells and whistles. I have the Brother KH-930e machine, a G-carriage, a ribber attachment, and a knit leader. At some point in the life of all these pieces and parts they were all together and so it seemed at the time a good idea to keep all their instruction books together. In hindsight this was a very poor decision. So as a result I do not have any of the instruction manuals for my machine or accessories.

If you are currently wondering if you need a manual for your knitting machine I will tell you right now, YES you absolutely need the manual for your knitting machine especially if it is electronic.

If you are cheap like me you will find yourself on google thinking that someone somewhere must have digitalized these manuals. You would be right, unfortunately the quality of some of this digitalization is so poor that you would be better off trying to figure it out on your own. However you might want to check some of these locations in your search for a knitting machine manual:

Free Sources:

Machine Knitters Treasure Chest http://needlesofsteel.org.uk/

Daisy Knits http://daisyknits.com/

Some of the companies provide free PDF versions, but the Brother scans for the KH-930e are absolutely terrible they are slanted and all jumbled up.

Places to Purchase:

Ebay (remember to try a number of different keyword searches)

http://www.tphuktrading.com/knitting-machine-manuals-1-c.asp (this website has a ton of knitting machine books)

So now you have a manual, ready to rock right? Wrong, now you need to make sure you have all the necessary pieces and parts. You will need a tension mast, claw weights, yarn wax, latch hook tools, transfer tools, cast on combs, K-carriage, L-carriage, the sinker plate, the needle pusher, table clamps, cone yarn, scissors, crochet hooks (rather small ones), clothes pins (quite a few), and a power cord (electronic machines).

Foolish me I again thought all of the pieces would be together, wrong again. As it turns out you can however do without or rig up your own in several of these instances.