Charlie Cat

Thanks again for all your info and time and experience. Charlie, I got the Singer 111w155 and am hoping to get it wired correctly. I tried it by hand and it goes through the leather that I am sewing by hand with no problem. I took the motor apart and unfroze it and cleaned it. Checked it with ohm meter and all ok. Capacitor is ok, neighbor checked it for me. Still looking up wiring to switch. Will contact Singer to see if they can help. Thanks again. Charlie Thanks again for all your info and time and experience. Charlie, I got the Singer 111w155 and am hoping to get it wired correctly. I tried it by hand and it goes through the leather that I am sewing by hand with no problem. I took the motor apart and unfroze it and cleaned it. Checked it with ohm meter and all ok. Capacitor is ok, neighbor checked it for me. Still looking up wiring to switch. Will contact Singer to see if they can help. Thanks again. Charlie Thanks again for all your info and time and experience. Charlie, I got the Singer 111w155 and am hoping to get it wired correctly. I tried it by hand and it goes through the leather that I am sewing by hand with no problem. I took the motor apart and unfroze it and cleaned it. Checked it with ohm meter and all ok. Capacitor is ok, neighbor checked it for me. Still looking up wiring to switch. Will contact Singer to see if they can help. Thanks again. Charlie Thanks again for all your info and time and experience. Charlie, I got the Singer 111w155 and am hoping to get it wired correctly. I tried it by hand and it goes through the leather that I am sewing by hand with no problem. I took the motor apart and unfroze it and cleaned it. Checked it with ohm meter and all ok. Capacitor is ok, neighbor checked it for me. Still looking up wiring to switch. Will contact Singer to see if they can help. Thanks again. Charlie Thanks again for all your info and time and experience. Charlie, I got the Singer 111w155 and am hoping to get it wired correctly. I tried it by hand and it goes through the leather that I am sewing by hand with no problem. I took the motor apart and unfroze it and cleaned it. Checked it with ohm meter and all ok. Capacitor is ok, neighbor checked it for me. Still looking up wiring to switch. Will contact Singer to see if they can help. Thanks again. Charlie

Thanks Wiz, I looked it up and saw it was a giant boat. My wife would send me out to live in my eqpt. trailer to live. Thanks very much for your time and advice. Too bad we live light years away. I can send you my version of Basin St Blues. via you send it. Can I send it here or will this site not take it. Or could I send it as an attach so everyone can hear it. I am planning to go over to the cobblers shop today or tomorrow and see what else is there. There is another garage with more machines. Thanks Thanks Thanks, and ps. I really am a clt. and Sax Player. Hence the willingness to sell the trumpet. I used it for my classes and demos and letting kids try out to see if they had what it takes to pay the inst. I will miss it but I could use a machine more. Thanks Just curiious is the Landis hard to learn to use. It seems like a space ship control system. !@!#@#@%

Mr. Wiz thanks for the details, I guess I am overwhelmed. I talked to the seller today and he is selling this eqpt. for his friends wife. His friend died suddenly. All of the machines were replaced since 07 till recent. All the others were destroyed in the 05 Great New Orleans Flood. I can take pics as the seller knows my situation and he knows that both he and I are novices at this. He needs a good trumpet for a friends child and I need a machine that works for what I need. I spoke to him today and he has a Landis 12 K that was never used by the cobbler. It was purchased reconditioned and never installed. That is the latest info. I can get pics of the parts that you mentioned. This unit is a monster. Thanks Charlie Cat

Thanks for the input, and I just found out that he also has a Landis 12 K that was purchased reconditioned but never used as the owner passed away suddenly. Thanks, This is so complicated. Charlie Cat If your trumpet is worth that much, I think you'd be getting the bad end of the deal trading it for a 31-15. They can be had for far far less than that.

Hello to all, I appreciate all of your comments and thank all of you. I contacted the seller about the machines. He told me that one that was supposed to be sold by tues. is still there and has not heard from the buyer. I will put the model and pic. here. He also has another singer model 50 or something but I will check. I can sell my trumpet for 3 hundred and 350 bucks. I can make an even trade for the 31 15 but that would be for one that I would have to reinstall the motor and get a belt and figure how to mount it on the table. He has another one but I would have to come up with another hundred bucks. It is all intact and running etc. What do you all think about the one that might be avail later today? I would be happy to send all of you a couple of my bands recordings on you send it, for all of you that have givem me help. Thanks Charlie Cat, The last one Silver is already sold and gone. Sorry

Thanks Mr. Wiz, but there is really not a budget. Every penny I earn goes toward the household. I taught music for 29 yrs and I am in my 2nd yr of looking for a teaching job and only get some part time work here and there. I don't make my leather goods fast enough to make any money on the goods that I make. That is the reason I am looking for a machine. The gentleman in N.O. is willing to trade some of my insts. for the machines that he is selling for a friend. Even with that I can't afford to put any cash in that direction. Anything insts. that I do end up selling the money will go to bills. I appreciate your advice but I wouldn't want to bother anyone with my little plan. I do thank you for giving me advice and the time that you took with me. I will just keep sewing by hand for now until things improve. Thanks again. Charlie Cat.

Thanks so much for your quick reply and expertise. I don't think either one will work for what I am trying to do. The gentleman has some other machines but I just can't make it financially right now. All of these machines are here in N.O. and I would hate to spend any money and not get close to what I need. I thank you for your help and if you need any musical inst. info I can do that, just not sewing machines. I will see what else he has that I might be able to afford. Thanks again, Charlie Cat

I am a laid off band director and former law enforcement officer. I make simple holsters and Saxophone neck straps. I have a chance to get a machine from a local seller. I am trading a trumpet and prob. adding some bucks to make the difference. If you were in my shoes what would work best for my work. I do everything by hand right now and it is killing me!. Thanks Charlie Cat Catalano New Orleans LA. P.S. What is the thickest that either one will sew? Thanks for any help in advance.