I found that often having to
hold the Infila needle threader in place, at the same time as operating it,
was too difficult for many of my clients. So I created the adaptation
picuted below.
The materials needed: piece of wood 5" x 3" X 1", two 1/2"
wood screws, -- preferabley with rounded heads, one 1.5" sheetrock screw,
one 1" cube of styrofoam, sand paper or a wood file, an electric drill,
a drill bit larger than the outside diamter of the screws, one screw driver,
contact cement, and non-skid shelf/drawer liner.
Directions:
- With a file or sandpaper, round the corners and sharp edges
of the piece of wood.
- Position the Infila roughly in the middle of the top of the
block and drill two holes where indicated by arrows from A and B in pictures
below. Do not drill into the wood though, just score the surface with
the drill tip, to leave a starting place for your screw.
- Put in the two screws. You can probably do this by just
applying pressure straight down on the screw and turning it into the wood.
If you cannot, you will have to drill a hole for the screw. Don't
use the same bit, you need to use one smaller than the ouside diameter of
the screw or the screw won't hold.
- They styrofoam is to put a sort of a pin cushion holder for
the needles on the thing. I just cut a chunk out of a larger piece
of styrofoam and then round the top edges with sandpaper. Then, using
the 1.5" sheetrock screw punch through the top of the styrofoam and screw
it to the wood on the opposite side from the operating buttons on the Infila.
Screw it down until the head imbeads itself in the styrofoam.
- Cut out a piece of the non-skid shelf/drawer liner that is slightly
bigger than the block of wood. Paint the bottom of the Infila with
the contact cement using the brush that comes in the bottle. Then lay
the piece of non-skid shelf/drawer liner on a hard surface and press the
bottom of the wood block down on it hard. Wait 15 minutes and trim
the excess off.
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