Knitting Machine Troubleshooting Hints

The LK-140 & LK-150 are similar in design, with one having 140 needles and the other 150 needles. The needle spacing of 6.5mm is the same on both machines. The needle hooks are slightly different in size an the transfer tools have different size openings. The major differences in the machines is in the carriage operation.  The LK-140 has seven tension settings with one click between each setting. The LK-150 has nine tension settings with one click between, plus an every-other-needle setting for tensions. 10 thru 13. This carriage was designed to closely match the size of hand knitting needles....

On occasion, sponge bars (needle retainer bars) can be slightly bent or bowed during shipment or when storing or when dropped. This does not harm them except when the metal backing gets a sharp bend in the metal, normally referred to as a "kink". Once a "kink" has occurred, the sponge bar will not straighten properly and will not fit back into the knitting machine sponge bar slot past the "kink". If your sponge bar was slightly bent during shipment or otherwise, but does not yet have a "kink", it can be easily straightened by slowly and steadily inserting the sponge...