A compilation of maintenance and restoration information of a 1950s/60s residential knitting machine.
This is going to be a collection of maintenance and restoration information for an antique Girotex-Handstrickapparat knitting machine.
I inherited this machine from my grandmother with minimal rusting, but many stuck and dirty pieces.
The intent is to eventually have this manual in html format to livew online.
The suppliers manual for a similar machine can be found here
Construction date: Date unknown, estimating 1950s/60s
Country of origin: Western Germany
Fabrication Number (Fab.Nr.): 66731
Needle bed number: 2
- Components and dimensions
- Clean the surface of the machine
- Tools and components you need to make/acquire
- Carriage ballbearing shim
- Needle sponge
- Dissasemble the carriages
- Dissasemble the needle bed
- Change a needle
- Change the needle sponge
- Deep clean the needle bed