Members shoepatcher Posted February 3, 2015 Members Report Posted February 3, 2015 I wanted to let all the readers on the Forum in on a machine that I recently got from Singermania in Australia. I began to purchase this machine from Steve in April, 2014. I bought it on time and finished paying for it in October. He crated it up and I had it shipped to New York via Ocean Freighter. From there by freight truck to Detroit and then delivered to my place of employment 10 days. It was not cheap to get it here. Why would I spend money on this particular shoe patcher you might ask? Very simply, this is a monster compared to any shoe patcher of today. The arm length is 19.5". The shuttle is 3 times larger than a big bobbin Singer or Adler and at least 2.5 times bigger than a #30 large bobbin Claes. The lift on the foot is just under 1". The machine has to be gone over. Neither Steve nor I know who built it at this point. We don't even know what needle system it takes. One of the cast iron supports got broken in shipment so I have to get that fixed. In essence, it is a cross between a saddle machine and a shoepatcher. Steve sent me info on another one of these machines that is in a display at a castle in France. Other that, we only know about the two machines. I will be starting to restore it probably late this fall. I will get pics of the bobbins, shuttle , stand and head posted on this site soon. I am looking for any info that anyone might have on this beast, i.e manufacturer, manual, etc. It looks a lot like the early shoe patchers like Claes& Fenje, Bradbury, patent Elastic, etc. Finally, I have begun to compile a list of the different shoe patcher machines that were built. If you have any pictures of little know ones, please post the pics. It will be fun to see how many companies made this type of machine over the last 150 plus years. glenn Quote
Members Constabulary Posted February 3, 2015 Members Report Posted February 3, 2015 Holy Cow - that sounds interesting - can you post some pictures please? Quote ~ Keep "OLD CAST IRON" alive - it´s worth it ~ Machines in use: - Singer 111G156 - Singer 307G2 - Singer 29K71 - Singer 212G141 - Singer 45D91 - Singer 132K6 - Singer 108W20 - Singer 51WSV2 - Singer 143W2
Members shoepatcher Posted February 3, 2015 Author Members Report Posted February 3, 2015 I will begin to post pictures soon. glenn Quote
Members gordond Posted February 4, 2015 Members Report Posted February 4, 2015 Hi Glenn I went to reply to your message and it said that I was banned from the conversation. .?? whatsup?.. confused... have I been hacked? machine pictures in my gallery page to answer your question Quote
Members biglew Posted February 4, 2015 Members Report Posted February 4, 2015 so i think i live close to you...can I come look at your machine?? Quote
Members shoepatcher Posted February 5, 2015 Author Members Report Posted February 5, 2015 Here is the start of the list of shoe patcher manufacturers and models Adler 30-1, 30-5,30-7, 30-15, 30-10, 30-50, 30-70 plus the early Kochs Adler Durkopp 17 class, 18 class Singer U.F. A, 29-1 thru 29-5, 29k1-33, 53-56, 57, 58, 60, 62, 29K 70, 71-73, 29U71, 29U171A-173A, 29KSV6, 29KSV19, 29D60 Dandy Champion- yes, they made one Consew 29, 29B, 29L, 29BL Bradbury A-1 Repairer Claes # 8346/10 # 8346/20 #8346/30 Pfaff Metro Spezial 8346/10 and 20 and 30, 9346/10 and 20 and 30 Colibri Politype Patent Elastic Anchor name any more you can think of. Quote
Moderator Wizcrafts Posted February 5, 2015 Moderator Report Posted February 5, 2015 I sure could use an Adler 30-70 right now. Quote Posted IMHO, by Wiz My current crop of sewing machines: Cowboy CB4500, Singer 107w3, Singer 139w109, Singer 168G101, Singer 29k71, Singer 31-15, Singer 111w103, Singer 211G156, Adler 30-7 on power stand, Techsew 2700, Fortuna power skiver and a Pfaff 4 thread 2 needle serger.
Members Constabulary Posted February 5, 2015 Members Report Posted February 5, 2015 (edited) Singer 29D, 29D51, 29D56, 29D62, 29DSV205, 29K51 Source: http://home.arcor.de/veritasklub/naehmaschinenwerk_produktionsprofil/seite01_singer.htm Edited February 5, 2015 by Constabulary Quote ~ Keep "OLD CAST IRON" alive - it´s worth it ~ Machines in use: - Singer 111G156 - Singer 307G2 - Singer 29K71 - Singer 212G141 - Singer 45D91 - Singer 132K6 - Singer 108W20 - Singer 51WSV2 - Singer 143W2
Members gordond Posted February 6, 2015 Members Report Posted February 6, 2015 C.S. Jones [this one is missing the shuttle and a Singer 29 is too big to fit..any ideas what shuttle might be suitable ?] Quote
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