Anne Bonnys Locker

Hell yes, $200 will be worth the investment for my own use let alone the customers who need odd screws.

Thanks Bob, the willingness of you and others here to share knowledge continues to astound me. Over here the best people in the industry are all retiring and information is just being lost. To quote a former Australian Treasurer "That is a beautiful set of numbers". That looks about the size range that most of the ones I need fall into so I will track a kit down.

Does anybody know where I can get my hands on a tap and die set to make my own nuts and bolts for Singer machines? If not - does anybody have a list of what the actual sizes are? There are people who list special taps and dies but without knowing the thread forms I know not what to order

There are versions of the 29k71 parts made in China but do not be tempted by them unless they come from a dealer who will couch for them as you will need a hammer and grinder to make them fit. I source a number of parts out of Taiwan and so far they have all been good and actually fit first go. Most importantly even the threaded parts are correct as the Chinese just use the nearest metric size but the Taiwanese are making exact copies.

I have to have a presser foot spring made for a 29k15. Fortunately the flat spring is the same as used in the 45k58 - Singer sharing parts between models!!!!!!!! - so I have a pattern to work with from my own 45k58. At the moment I am still waiting for a quote but as I am going to get a couple made I would like to know if anybody else needs one (or more)?

Wertheim transverse shuttle long bed assorted needles, guides and parts for some sort of embellisher, possibly a Cornelly or a Singer 114

1/ a 241-12 that is way beyond recovery left at the shop door 2 and 3 45k58 needs work and is on a treadle base. Unfortunately the treadle crank and band wheel are missing.

Behold, Pictures: Landis/Pederson 12 Singer 7-5 hand crank bobbin winder Grossman chain stitch (1920's?)

Thanks Gregg, That has filled in some of my knowledge on these machines. I have seen a 132B2B some time back which I would swear had reverse and was a true walking foot but I may have been hallucinating :brainbleach:

45k58 arrives tomorrow! Also picked up a 306M set up as a light industrial - this machine is for my business partner and will be set up on a treadle. Also have an option to buy both a 7-33 and a frobana at reasonable prices. I get home tomorrow and will take the camera to the shop.

I picked up my 31k47 head that was sitting in a friends museum and over the next month or so will set it up on a treadle base after a light refurb.

The 132k6 is the ideal horse rug machine. The DY-253 is a true driven walking foot, not a snap foot, and is a much better machine but not something I would recommend for a leatherworker.

None at the moment but there are a lot of old machines out in the bush here and I am often called to fix them. BTW Anne Bonny's Locker is the business name - I am Darren

Please correct me if I am wrong - I am sure that someone here may know more and I really want to know the history of these machines. The 132k series was built by Singer at Kilbowie (hence the "k") until the late 50's or early 60's. When they closed the factory the production was farmed out to Mitsubishi or Seiko and were the 132B series. At some stage somebody finally decided to build the thing properly and along came the 132B2B which was a proper walking foot with reverse. My suspicion is that the Japanese initiated the design mods. When Singer decided that they no longer wanted to have anything to do with this series the Japanese bought the rights to produce the machine thus giving us the DY-253 and the SK6. The Chinese needed a heavy-ish machine so they copied the machine that the Japanese build and these are any that have 253 in the part number. The 254 is the long bed and there are other variations.

Going to have to wait until next week as I am running out of time. I put in an allnighter to get machines ready for an event that starts tomorrow (350km away) and the body is telling me that it is time to sleep!

I may be in need of a couple myself in the near future.

As well as being a dealer I collect machines and over the last couple of days have added the absolute extremes to the stash. Monday saw me trade an ABLE290 patcher for a tiny industrial chain stitch milliners machine which could possibly sew the lightest of leathers. It weighs about 2kg (5lb) and is a work of art. At this stage I have not had a chance to do any research on it but I am almost certain it is German and between 80 and 120 years old. This one stays in the collection. Today I traded two of my patchers for three machines with the largest being a Pederson Thor - Landis 12. I don't want to know what this weighs but it is a goer and after a clean and service will go on the market. Of the other machines one is a door stop of an old transverse shuttle high arm German machine (it came out of a burnt out house) and the other is a transverse shuttle Wertheim industrial treadle which will be a goer with a little TLC. Another great find on the trip was a hand crank bobbin winder for a Singer 7-5. This is the first one I have ever seen! I will post some pictures tomorrow of a box of bits which I cannot identify. The needles look like they are out of some sort of embellisher and have odd little guides and a number of very odd parts that seem to go together. The bobbins are over an inch round and wide. Apart from the new toys I sold 18 of the patchers and repaired two 45k cylinder bed machines by the simple expedient of replacing the feed dogs with new ones as the old ones were worn right down.

I could be wrong but I don't think that new home did much in the way of industrials. It will do a couple of layers of garment leather but that is about it. Don't get me wrong, I love treadle machines, but it still needs to be industrial. I was just talking to someone today about building a 31k47 treadle for upholstery leather!

If I had a stack of free funds I am crazy enough to take you up on that offer :brainbleach: If I had no conscience I could probably sell 3 monster machines a week to people for fixing heavy horse rugs.

Ha!! just a little bit of surface rust. With the lack of unusual machines around here I would have driven a long way or organized freight to pick those up. I have actually sketched up a hand crank drive for a GR5-1 using that sort of gearing but with the balance wheel mounted at the front.

And what is under the case next to it? An HG Palmer. a Pinnock or some other weirdness?

This is a new machine out of China and I only have a couple of demo machines right now but if there is interest in Australia I may import them....

Drooling ..........