Rug binding/fringe machine suggestions

Mikey P

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My "partner" wants to offer binding and fringe replacement.

What machines do you recommend?

How about the hand held ribbon binder?
 

Larry Cobb

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Mikey;

I worked in a carpet workroom doing lots of binding and fringe work for several years, while I was going to college.

A good shop requires an air table at least 12' x 12' to float rugs for ease of movement.
It's a must for fringing oval rugs. Fringe work is the most profitable portion of the two you mentioned.

Also a binding machine with a geared puller

and a fringe machine with geared puller.

The investment is about $6000 for the machines + about $1000 for the table if you make it yourself.

Larry
 

The Great Oz

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I would second getting one of the REFURBISHED machines from Zig. These are N-C machines, the chalk of the industry for years. Your best bet is to also find a used N-C fringe machine and send it to them to refurbish.

Initially you can get away with using roller (conveyor) track and a 1x10x12f board to run a rolled rug past your machine. If you end up doing a lot of work you'll want to invest in the floor space and expense of an air table. Rolling a rug up and re-rolling it four times to do four sides gets old pretty quick.

You can also buy a portable binder that you can roll around the carpet, but they are much less durable and will need a lot of maintenance if you do any volume of work. If you want a portable, get it from N-C or Bond. If you buy one of the cheap ones you'll need three: One to bind with, one to be in the repair shop, and one to be on the way to or from the repair shop at all times.

I would recommend the N-C FTW for fringe application and the N-C TPB for binding. The Millenium is the best portable binder. http://www.n-ccarpet.com/index.htm

I haven't used Bond machines but know people that are happy with them. http://bondproducts.com/

Can't recommend National Equipment's carpet school or N-C machine clones but they have other repair room stuff http://www.nationalequipment.com/default.asp
 

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