We bought a used industrial sewing machine:
and it was going way faster than either my wife or I could control.
The cheapest solution seemed to be to increase the pulley size on the sewing machine side, since the motor pulley was just 1.5". But, the machine pulley wasn't a standard buy it from Grainger thing:It's a bit hard to see, but it's recessed to fit tight up to the handwheel and held on with a nut, not with a key and keyway.
My solution was to turn a new one out of maple.
It seems to have worked really well. I've sewn with it 3 or 4 times now.
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