Silver SK302 knitting machine was released onto the market in 1965, a year after its oldest turn-knob sister, Silver SK301, which is also a standard-gauge knitting machine with 200 needles and a turn-knob-controlled needle selection mechanism to knit patterns.

However, the knobs on the Silver SK302 are of an improved design – no more like round radio knobs (probably because round knobs were hard to turn). At the same time, Silver SK302 no longer features a 3-color tension mast, unlike its earlier counterpart, Silver SK301.

The dial indicator of the Silver SK302 is already on the left-hand side, similar to the Silver SK303 and up, but unlike the Silver SK301, which is on the right.

It looks like other carriage features started being improved as well: the “tuck” is only under the left and right buttons with the number “1” (similar to models SK303 and higher). But there is still no “off” indicator next to the buttons closest to the tension dial.

Other turn-knob knitting machines are Silver SK301, SK303, and SK305, as well as Singer 666, and 888 in addition to Studio SK301, Empisal KnitMaster ES302, Empisal Knimaster mod. 305, and Riccar RK-601.

Since all turn-knob machines are basically operating using the same engineering premise, read a blog article I put together for the Studio SK-303 knitting machine with LOTS of details and pros and cons.