1928 Singer 96-10 Timing

[ironworker95]

hello to all this is my first post a little about my self I am a welder fabacator with over 20 years of fab experience and was also one of the only ones in high school who took shop and home ec. I can pretty much make anything and have recently moved up to a more heavy duty machine so heres my issue I got a 1928 singer 96 10 3 weeks ago sewed perfect and now for some reason its skipped timing can some one please send a link or tell me how to get it back. thank you and this site is awesome and full of knowledge

[suzelle]

Iron,

Hope you get some help with this. I almost bought one of those machines a few months ago, then changed my mind about buying it. Never actually looked at the machine, but before I made my decision, I did purchase an original Singer booklet (Service book I think) and have since put it away. If I ever find it again (LOL-I have books galore) I'd sell it to you if you are interested. May be of some help if you are really stuck! Let me know.

Good luck!

[Marcusstratus]

Greetings Ironworker, If you haven't solved your timing issue yet, here's some tips and a manual that may help.

First, there are several things (many of which are very common place, but it's still good to mention) to check to make sure you're not having a basic problem. Make sure the needle is new (and the correct system is used), and fastened straight (not off-angle because of the round shaft). Because of the high speed these machines move at, everything has to be in perfect sync and if something is slightly off it will throw some stitches out. The correct needle system is 16x231 (or16x95, 16x257, DBx1, 287 WH, SY 2270) if you're using the wrong needle system it may not reach down quite far enough, etc.

Also, make sure it's cleaned properly, make sure there's no lint under the needle plate, in the tension apparatus, or inside the shuttle area that spins around the bobbin.

A manual that will work for you to adjust the machine is here http://parts.singerco.com/IPinstManuals/96-80_100.pdf It's for 96-80, 100 and others but the mechanics are the same and these instructions will match your machine. Also, look to the parent site http://parts.singerco.com/IPinstManuals/ for a more extensive list of Singer Manuals

Something I can't help mentioning is that the Singer 96-10 is a medium weight sewing machine intended for medium-heavy weight fabrics and possibly light weight leather if you're using the proper (sharp, awl point) needles. There are many machines more suitable for sewing leather as that may be what threw your machine off if you were driving it too hard. Another thing, because of the age of these machines, there's probably a fair amount of freeplay where it's worn down (modern industrial machines I use have no wobble on any of the parts). Many of the joints can either be clamped closer together or screwed in to push a cone in further, reducing free play.

At the time of writing this, I'm currently restoring a 96-10 and have completely disassembled it. I will be going through the touchy process of timing myself, when I get it back together.

[AndrewAllen]

I came across this post when trying to set the gib hook timing on our Singer 96-10, as our old gib hook broke and part of it flew across the room while we were trying to sew some upholstery. The parts.singerco.com manuals site seemed to be down, but I found the manual on the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine at https://web.archive.org/web/20160501024105/http://parts.singerco.com/IPinstManuals/96-80_100.pdf and thought I'd let folks know of that link that should work pretty much forever. I also downloaded the manual and can share it with you from my google drive if you can't get the link above to work.