Passap SwissKnitter Selectomat User manual

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swissknitter
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SELECTOMAT the optional extra for your NEW HOME Swissknitter
The SELECTOMAT makes pattern knitting much easier: all you have to do is arrange the irst
12 needles and the SELECTOMAT does the rest or you by repeating the needle setting
across the whole width o the needle bed.
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Knitting Guide
Contents:
npacking and Assembly 2
Threading up 8
Stocking Stitch 11
The Sweater 16
The Back 16
The Sleeve 21
The Front 23
So ar the chapters o the knitting guide correspond with the
contents o the teaching cassette.
The ollowing chapters will only be ound in the knitting guide
Shaping techniques 27
Casting on 27
Casting off/decreasing 29
Increasing 30
The Rest Position 32
The Buttonhole 34
The Hem 34
The Test Square 35
Patterning 36
Tuck Stitch 36
Slip Stitch 39
Fairisle 40
Fairisle in Tuck Stitch 41
Intarsia 42
Double Rows 44
Double Intarsia 45
Lock Settings 46
seful Hints 47
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Unpacking
Start by removing the teaching cassette (9) from the styrofoam block and listening to it. The cassette
explains how to unpack the machine and set it up, as well as how to knit your first test piece.
Remove all the parts from the two styrofoam
blocks and check that all the parts are there:
The right styrofoam block contains:
The Lock
The left styrofoam block contains:
1. Mast for yam tensioner
2. Tension arms
3. Row counter
4. Tube of oil
5. Two edge weights
6. Two clamps
7. Paraffin wax
8. Plastic bag with small accessories
9. Teaching cassette
10. Two feeding eyelet supports
11. Two feeding eyelets
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Unpacking
These are the small accessories:
2 ____________ I) 09.232.12
3 Latch needles
II09.802.03
Orange tool
€09.942.03
Yellow tool
09.941.02
Double ended bodkin
HJL UL
09.809.02
Pattern ruler
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___ 0 ___ 0 ___ 0 ___ 01
JDL
16.570.02
Pattern ruler 1 :2
16.571.02
Pattern ruler 1 : 3
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Assembly
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Li t the empty styro oam blocks and the body o the
machine out o the box.
Align the machine with the ront table edge in such a
way that the machine slightly slopes to the back.
At each end it the eeding eyelet supports underneath
the needle bed. The illustration shows the le t hal o
the needle bed as seen rom the back. Look at this
backview o the needle bed. You will see our screws
that it into round plastic pins. Insert the eeding eyelet
support between the second and the third screw, at
the same time depressing the small latch on the
eeding eyelet support. Make sure the support clicks
into place. t
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From the side insert the row counter into its
support-rail exactly as shown in the illustration.
I this has been done correctly, the row counter will not
touch the table when the machine is in its correct
position.
Now asten the needle bed to the table edge using the
two clamps.
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Assembly
Oil the needle bed well be ore you
place the lock on it. Use only the
enclosed Bellodoroil.
Drip oil onto the needle eet and the
ront and back guide rails
(see illustration).
The curved end o the mast is at the The tension arms are curved orward,
top and must point to the ront.
Fit the mast or the yarn tensioner
into the hole on the row counter. Fit the tension arms with the yarn tension dial to the top o the mast.
Be ore you place the lock onto the Slide the lock rom the right on to the Your instruction book contains a
needle bed, check that the ront dial needle bed, making sure that the diagram. Take it out and stick it on to
at the side o the lock is on position I. guides on the bottom o the lock it the ront hal o the lock.
exactly into the guide rails on the
needle bed.
Now turn the ront dial at the side o
the lock to position III.
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, Assembly
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needle head
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needle oot
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The Needle
The machine has 179 latch needles. Each needle has a
needle oot and a needle head that closes with a
movable latch. Holding the needle by its oot, it can be
moved back and orth.
I the needle should jam in Non Working Position *
while doing so, li t it up slightly by its oot.
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The Needle Positions
On each end o the needle bed you will ind one to our
stars. These stars indicate the our needle positions:
= Needles in Non Working Position, i.e. out o
work (NWP)
= Needles in Working Position (WP)
* * * = Needles in Advanced Working Position (AWP)
* * * * = Needles in Rest Position (RP)
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Assembly
Various parts o the machine
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Threading the yarn
For the ollowing test pieces you will need approximately 230 grms o yarn in the main colour and about 30 grms in a
second colour which will be called trimming colour.
Use a medium thick plain smooth yarn. (100 grm = approx. 340 m, 1 oz = 104 yards).
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It is very important or the yarn to
low reely and smoothly. It will only
do so i it has been wound into loose
balls or on to cones.
I you wind the yarn yoursel , let it run
over the enclosed piece o para in
wax.
Always begin with the end o yarn
coming rom the centre o the ball. Thread the yarn into one end o the
double ended bodkin which is the
needle with an eyelet on each end.
Look at the white plastic piece at the top o the mast o Now guide the bodkin rom back to ront through the
the yarn tension. From below, guide the double ended eyelet at the tip o the tension arm.
bodkin vertically up behind the silver coloured roll.
The roll will move slightly orward by itsel and make
room or the double ended bodkin.
Compare care ully with the illustration. The yarn must
be in the wire triangle.
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