Category: Toyota
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Elna EK2400 knitting machine
Elna EK2400 knitting machine is a standard-gauge machine with 200 needles, 4.5 mm apart. It can be accessorized with an ER2450 ribber. Elna EK2400 is the same as the Toyota KS950 knitting machine. Thus, use the same resources (manuals, tutorials, etc.). Thus, other accessories working with Elna EK2400 are Toyota’s K86 and K86A color changers,…
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Toyota K33A knit tracer
Toyota knit-tracer K33A assists machine-knitters with decreases and increases based on their calculated gauge. Refer to a manual (available online for free) for more details. According to some web sources, the K33A knit tracer K33A fits a wide variety of Toyota machines: bulky KS610 and KS650, and standard-gauge models KS777, KS858, KS895, KS901 and KS950.…
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Toyota K33 knit tracer
Toyota knit-tracer K33 assists machine-knitters with decreases and increases based on their calculated gauge. Refer to a manual (available online for free) for more details. To the best of my knowledge, K33 fits only the bulky Toyota KS610 knitting machine. . Stay tuned as I am figuring out more details about this charting device, including…
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Toyota K32 knit tracer
Toyota knit-tracer K32 assists machine-knitters with decreases and increases based on their calculated gauge. Refer to a manual (available online for free) for more details. Stay tuned as I am figuring out more details about this charting device, including compatibility with Toota knitting machines. Other charting devices from Toyota are the K20, K31, K33, and…
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Toyota KnitTracer K-20
Toyota knit-tracer K20 assists machine-knitters with decreases and increases based on their calculated gauge. Refer to a manual (available online for free) for more details. According to some sources, K20 knit tracers fit the following Toyota knitting machines: KS510, KS747, and some others. Other charting devices from Toyota are K31, K32, K33 and K33A. Stay…
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Toyota K 506 knitting machine
Toyota K506 knitting machine is a turn-knob knitting machine manufactured in the mid- to late-1960s. Stay tuned while I look for more information on this machine and in the meantime below are my observations and pictures. Toyota K506 has 200 needles, 4.5 mm apart, which makes it a standard-gauge knitting machine. Its patterning and automatic…
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Toyota NT-12 knitting machine
Toyota mod. NT-12 knitting machine seems like a standard-gauge knitting machine with 180 needles (judging by the picture of the markings on the needlebed). At the moment, I am not sure whether the needles are 5.5 mm (like some other Toyota knitting machines from that time) or 4.5 mm. It probably appeared on the market…
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Toyota K65 transfer carriage
According to a Toyota accessories brochure, the Toyota K65 transfer carriage works with setups for the KS950, KS901 ad KS858 knitting machines. I also see sources mentioning the Toyota K65 carriage working with the Toyota KS895. It also fits Elna EK2400 setup with ER2450 ribber because this is the same setup as Toyota’s, just under…
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Toyota Simulknit K80
Simulknit is an accessory for standard-gauge Toyota knitting machines. Simulknit allows for knitting a fabric with a pattern on one side and a complete backing on the other side. The end result looks like a double sided fabric, but only one side has a pattern. It has two yarn feeders in one assembly. This assembly…
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Toyota KS650 knitting machine
Toyota KS650 is the only punch-card bulky machine released by this company, and second and bulky-gauge. The first one, Toyota KS610, has only manual stitch-manipulation capabilities. Toyota KS650 has 110 needles, 9 mm apart. A matching ribber is Toyota KR650. Toyota KS650 accepts punchcards with a 12-stitch repeat pattern. Its patterning mechanism (with drums) is…
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Toyota K 505 knitting machine
Toyota K505 knitting machine is a turn-knob knitting machine manufactured in the mid- to late-1960s. It is a standard-gauge machine with 200 needles, 4.5 mm apart. This machine looks similar to its predecessors, Toyota K 109 and K 111. However, carriage of Toyota K 505 had five buttons (not six like K109 and K111 models).A…
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Toyota APK knitting machine
Toyota APK knitting machine is the same as Toyota K108. Thus, read the corresponding post.