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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    SHANGAS; you can always break it down, pack the head in one box, pack the wooden top in one box and break the stand down, unbolting the treadles sides and packing them in stryofoam sheeting and wrapping the centre of the stand with bubble wrap and mailing in about six boxes. thats how i ship...
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    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    shangas; the bed extensions were common with european machines not north american, I have a 128k handcrank on my website and its came with a base and a suitcase and it has the bed extension that hooks onto the end. I see these mostly with european machines , motor lube is available in singer...
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    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    The reason that this thread was started the thing that irked me, was I am a repairman, 30 years fixing sewing machines, picture of the queen in the back wall. Wooden radio playing big band, treadle sewing machines in the showroom , handcrank on the shelf. I wear a apron, fix all types of sewing...
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    Singer 160th Anniversary Sewing Machine

    Doc; I meant a used bernina such as a 830 or a 930 they go for that used or more, not a new one, $300 to $4000. bernina is only china, $4000 to $15000. is steckborn switzerland but hey its the only machine still made in europe and the only one family owned really. 59LARK
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    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    Atomic Tom; the plant that made those crown vics and marquis was in Talbotville, st thomas ont a hour from here, ford closed it in may, hope they rot in ................. . Not happy want to go to the south where they can pay low wages, top awards for quality mean nothing , many police...
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    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    I spoke to a gentleman in our town, that fixed appliances, now only vacuums , but years ago he did fix toasters etc, small appliances. The older toasters have a metal activator two different metals that with heat will throw the switch to pop the toast. No lousy electro magnet that fails in 6...
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    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    When the pressure foot , the bar you attach your foot or the buttonholer too, is up the tension is released and will make a mess, make sure the lever at the back that raises the foot is down. make sure the feed cover plate is lined up with the needle to the hole for the needle to go through...
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    would not fit the pictured machine, must stop posting while i am so tired. 59Lark
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    Show us your Thrift and/or yard sale finds

    The colour of the buttonholer case has anyone wondering, singer had two styles of foot shanks, low shank which most machines were took the green case buttoholers and the slant machines where the needle bar and the pressure bar were on a slanted angle took the reddish or maroon case buttonholers...
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    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    I would guess bite is the width how wide you the side stitches too be and space is the length of the buttonhole,but you know in 30 years and I Have had bushel baskets of buttoholes , none has looked like that. Different country different product, also check that the parts inside move freely and...
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    sick and tired of new scrap appliances.

    I repair things for a living, have done for 30 years, my speciality is sewing machines and old ones are my favourite. I Fix 10, 2o, 5o yr old plus this week, fixed a shoe patcher to go to haiti, was 11o years old. My wife and I have in the last 2yrs 4 toasters, cheap ones and what I thought was...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    White who made that machine , the sears was no 2 at one time and made a fine machine, but you need someone who knows, date late forties to early fifties, white closed the cleveland plant in the 1950s and japan took over, maurzen sewing machine co first co in japan to make a zig zag machine...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    2Jakes; what you have is a white rotary machine made in cleveland, the exterior is different and its labelled sears but its a white, it runs backward ie counterclockwise, singer run clockwise. It take those flat attachments and rotary bobbins, and most are friction drive, the parts are available...
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    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Shangas; first the dating system has its flaws, and the people in tn, usa at the warehouse dont know anything? Low wages and cheap properties for leasing is why singer is there, not vast experience. The one lady that I spoke there held a full time job at singer and work two part time jobs too...
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    Singer 160th Anniversary Sewing Machine

    Irony of this machine, its made in hanoi, to celebrate the history of a company that doesnt make anything in their own country anymore probably has recycled metal from the war in the parts inside. Its kinda sad actually. I was a singer dealer till jan for over 25 years but I have lost any...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    Loungers ; the machine at the top of page is a 66 class singer with lotus decals, the cabinet shown is a deluxe parlour or drawing roomtreadle cabinet. Very high end for the day, there are two kinds one where the machine just goes down normal and one where there is a monster spring and a brass...
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    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Jangas; I have about 80 years worth of manuals, parts chart and dating info in about two filing cabinets in my cellar. I have been fixing singer since I was 18 and now am 48. The charts are fairly acurate but the badge is a true teller, as every product that went out that year from commerical...
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    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Shangas; your machine is actually a 1950 the letter in front of the serial no indicates what year the machine was made, yours is an EG 1950 all machines made in 1951 had the anniversary blue badge 1851 1951 a century of sewing. yours does not have that badge, definetly a clydebank machine. A...
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    Restoring my Grandmother's Singer Sewing Machine

    Dear lounger; I restore old sewing machines for a living, the k stood for kilbowie clydebank scotland, and I have a original slide plate if you find the new chinese chrome one looks too wierd next to the nickel finish. When you install you need to put on backwards. The plate will go under the...
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    Biltmore factory closing.

    Dear loungers; I have owned many biltmore hats, my brother lives a block away from the plant and would purschase my fedoras and mail them to me. I dont drive in large cities well, kinda like my car, the 59 studebaker its days of fighting heavy traffic are over. I mourn their passing and I am mad...

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