Troubleshooting the cast-on process of the KS858 and its ribber KR506

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I’m new here. I bought these machines on eBay and they seem to be okay, but I just can’t get the cast-on process to work properly. It worked once on a trial run, but not since. Everything looks set-up and threaded properly, but the stitches don’t form. Can anyone give any advice please? Thanks

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How do I use balls of wool on a knitting machine?

In a recent copy of the magazine it was mentioned that balls of wool can be used on a knitting machine but of course need to be waxed.  How does one do that?

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I’m looking for Mylar sheets. I’ve recently got my Brother 950 Electronit machine out, as I want to make some baby blankets for our local NICU. I can’t find the Mylar sheets I had and I’m having problems finding anywhere that sells them. Can anyone point me in the direction of someone who sells them?
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I need step-by-step instructions for the KL116 on the Brother KH260 chunky please. I’m doing something really silly somewhere - but I don’t know what. Can someone please read through this and let me know where I am going wrong?

Chunky KH 260 Brother machine with Knit Leader KL116
Tension square knitted 20 stitches wide by 30 rows long. I used two strands of DK Shamal together on Tension 5.
Stitches using a centimetre ruler it measured 12 cm. (I tried using the blue ruler but it came out to silly numbers (17.5) and all the tension squares I knitted came out wrong so I used a CM ruler.) Read 12 on the CM ruler so I read off 12 on the tube and put the card into the machine for the stitches = (Card 12) 126 - 128.
Rows Measured with the blue ruler it came to 23 so as I was told that on a chunky machine you have to halve that number I put 11.5 into the machine. I was also told that both trippers have to be down so that it trips the sheet twice on each row and to leave the feeding lever plugged into the left hand side NOT to move the feeding lever to the right hand side and lift one tripper as this wouldn’t work properly? I drew a six inch square onto the Knit Leader and knitted it up - the stitches came out correct but I cannot get the rows right. Can someone please write down what to do from START ( tension square) to FINISH knitting a 6 inch square on the Knit Leader - step by step - as I’m getting so disheartened. I love this machine and am so desperate to get going. I have knitted a jumper from a magazine but I want to do my own thing and the Knit Leader seemed the way to go. Please help!