Sundia 5 Thread Safety Stitch Industrial Serger EA5-965M 16D530/C
I purchased this machine from a dressmaker shop which closed down in the Conover/Hickory area, of North Carolina. I believe it was a factory machine prior to that, though can't be positive. This area of North Carolina had many sewing and textile manufacturing factories shut down after the Free trade agreements were made, beginning in the early 1990's, so we have many vintage industrial sewing machines for sale, inexpensively. This is one of the newer ones.
| Sundia 5 thread chainstitch industrial serger with table, clutch motor, and trash chute, has treadle pedal, as well as a presser foot raising pedal, and an extra pedal which could be used to operate a thread trimmer, or other special features. |
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| Sundia 5 thread safety stitch industrial serger in industrial table, with treadle pedal, left pedal is not hooked up, may have operated a thread trimmer, or other special feature, the pedal to the right raises and lowers the presser foot keeping your hands free to manipulate the sewing project. LOVE THIS MACHINE! The oil filling spigot is under that top clear knob. It removes, and you pour the oil in, using a funnel. Do NOT overfill! See photo further down for oil level indicator window. |
My Sundia industrial serger is a 5 thread safety stitch, which sews a 2 thread chainstitch, and a 3 thread overlock stitch (I want to call it a doublechain, it is more secure than my home serger stitches), which can be used together for the 5 thread safety stitch, or each of the types of stitches can be used individually.
4 tension units are located on the front of the serger, the 5th, the chainstitch thread tension, is on the side, underneath, and hidden behind the stainless steel bed & side door unit.
BENT TWEEZERS for sergers, are a MUST! Industrial sergers are very difficult to thread, especially if you have "45 year old eyes, or older", so a magnifying glass, and or reading glasses, are very important if you want to thread your serger yourself. The holes for industrial sergers are very tiny, you may also want a dental floss threader like those used for flossing braces, it makes it easier to get the thread through these tiny holes, and there are typically more places to get the thread.
This Sundia serger is relatively easy for a very experienced home serger, if that experienced home serger has been using sergers which require threading and adjusting tension by hand. I would not recommend jumping straight from a BabyLock Imagine, or Enlighten, with their jet air threading, and automatic tension settings, straight to an industrial serger like this, simply because you need the experience of both threading a serger correctly, repeatedly, and adjusting the tension to get the correct stitch. Tension, and stitch width and length, and the number of needles, are the main differences between types of serger stitches (not counting coverstitch sergers like the Babylock Evolve, Evolution, Ovation and Triumph), so experience with a home serger with these features, is better practice to prepare you to use an industrial serger.
BEFORE ADDING OIL, check the oil window for the indicator, I expected to see oil, not the plastic red thing, so we overfilled it accidentally, because we had been told the oil was drained, but it was NOT! We had to drain it again, to get it to a correct level, so watch this little red dot in the window, don't expect to see liquid oil! (This is DIRTY as it came to us, before I cleaned it.)
If you buy a used industrial serger, unless you buy it from a sewing machine repair & sales store, expect it to be dirty.
4 tension units are located on the front of the serger, the 5th, the chainstitch thread tension, is on the side, underneath, and hidden behind the stainless steel bed & side door unit.
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| Note both doors are open, in this view, to show the threading details, and loopers. The trach chute had to be lowered in this photo, to make room for the front door to open out. When the front is closed, the chute is raised up, and pushed against the front of the machine, to neatly capture and dispose of all the trimmings as you sew, without you having it get in your way. |
Special features of these industrial serger tables, which makes maneuvering large projects much easier, is the fact that the table is in 2 levels, an upper level for the sewing surface, and the lower level gives you a place for the snips, accessories, and access to the front & side of the machine, as well as the top of the trash chute, for cleaning your machine, and threading it.
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| Sundia 5 thread safety stitch serger as it arrived, with oily lint all over, it isn't too bad, compared to the condition my Rimoldi came in, however. Many industrial machines that come out of shut down factories, were never cleaned, or the oil drained, when factories literally shut down, overnight, as they moved overseas, after the Free Trade Agreements destroyed the U.S.'s industrial textile businesses, and other manufacturing businesses. |
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| Dirty Sundia 5 thread safety stitch machine, as it arrived in my home. Note the tension dial & threading area for the chainstitch looper |
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| Sundia 5 thread safety stitch serger note OIL LEVEL INDICATOR is red dot on skinny plastic pipe in round window. It was overfilled. Also notice that this newer industrial serger is actually color coded for threading! That is one way you know it is a newer serger, industrials did not always have anything that made threading them easily. They were expected to be used in factories where professional machine repair techs were available, and where one highly educated industrial sewing manager, supervised many "machine operators", who only did exactly what they were shown, over & over. Machine operators were not expected to understand their machines, know how to adjust them, or fix them in any way. |
BENT TWEEZERS for sergers, are a MUST! Industrial sergers are very difficult to thread, especially if you have "45 year old eyes, or older", so a magnifying glass, and or reading glasses, are very important if you want to thread your serger yourself. The holes for industrial sergers are very tiny, you may also want a dental floss threader like those used for flossing braces, it makes it easier to get the thread through these tiny holes, and there are typically more places to get the thread.
This Sundia serger is relatively easy for a very experienced home serger, if that experienced home serger has been using sergers which require threading and adjusting tension by hand. I would not recommend jumping straight from a BabyLock Imagine, or Enlighten, with their jet air threading, and automatic tension settings, straight to an industrial serger like this, simply because you need the experience of both threading a serger correctly, repeatedly, and adjusting the tension to get the correct stitch. Tension, and stitch width and length, and the number of needles, are the main differences between types of serger stitches (not counting coverstitch sergers like the Babylock Evolve, Evolution, Ovation and Triumph), so experience with a home serger with these features, is better practice to prepare you to use an industrial serger.
BEFORE ADDING OIL, check the oil window for the indicator, I expected to see oil, not the plastic red thing, so we overfilled it accidentally, because we had been told the oil was drained, but it was NOT! We had to drain it again, to get it to a correct level, so watch this little red dot in the window, don't expect to see liquid oil! (This is DIRTY as it came to us, before I cleaned it.)
If you buy a used industrial serger, unless you buy it from a sewing machine repair & sales store, expect it to be dirty.
