Thank you so much, @kimmac ! I do appreciate the time and effort involved in posting the detail; video is great but it does add an additional layer of effort to it all.
I shall be studying your explanation and see whether I can manage it - years ago we got a second hand ribber attachment for my knitting machine but haven't got round to assembling it (it looks like a jigsaw to me)
I was so intimidated by the ribber! I finally forced myself and it wasn’t that hard really. I still have attachments and assessories that I haven’t figured out how to use yet though.
Glad this helped a bit though. 🙂
The one thing I didn’t mention was the constant repositioning of the weights to help keep the short rows on the needles. It becomes more like second nature once your body gets a sense of what works, but I probably repositioned the weights every two or three rows when doing the heel and toe.