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This looks like a machine for doing fishtails on belts rather than zigzag. But I can only see one side of the drum near the needle bar from here.

This is an absolutely stunning piece of work!

Welcome to Canada then! I am sure you'll get to love and hate it at the same time pretty soon. Feel free to PM me on here if you have any questions - I can't promise I will have all answers, but I'll try to help.

Canadian bucks in circulation in Croatia? That's something new LOL. But seriously, this is a great wallet!

This one looks like consumer grade, is that correct?

If wallets is the only thing you are ever going to stitch, you can use any walking foot machine, like Wiz said, but if you would ever want to stitch other goods, like gloves, hats, purses etc, get a cylinder bed machine. Cylinder bed doubles as a flat bed just like that or with a table attachment, but you can't do on a flat bed what requires a cylinder bed. For instance, replacing zippers in boots is a breeze on a cylinder bed (some may argue this is a job for a shoe patcher, but I contend it is absolutely doable on Pfaff 335) but try that on a flat bed and it's impossible.

Folks, Does anyone have experience with ironing boards better than what can be found at department stores? I would like to make a Christmas present to my wife who does a lot of ironing for her dressmaking projects and and just wore out her current board (iron mesh started falling apart and legs are on the way out). What brand/model could you recommend? Appreciate the input!

Had one hiccup with thread exchange where color did not match, not even close, and they would not agree to exchange. Not buying from them ever since as they got their pants in the knot instead of resolving it. How would you feel about ordering grey thread and receiving pitch black, then having to fight them to even acknowledge the issue, sending pictures and getting nowhere?

I would say, phenomenal!

Huh, where's the lever?

Mine is the old casting -17, so I get the small bobbin then. Thanks again!

Was shopping for bobbins and came across a listing on Ali Express where the seller was showing 22 x 12.6mm bobbin with a 6mm hole. The bobbins I am currently using are 22 x 9mm with a 6mm hole. Is he wrong or does my machine have a wrong bobbin case and hook assembly?

Superb work!

And the asymmetric feed dog for binding operation. With a matching presser foot.

I guess, 1 - binder 2 - stitcher

I find that Grainger is the kind of business where you get somewhere only with a walk in.

How old is that compass?

The torque on the pulley is not too big, you may be able to get away with a split bushing and no woodruff key

You will need at least some pan. Mine is from a different model machine, but it is a pan anyway, so I just trimmed a spam can to fit between the pan and the moving parts on the bottom of the machine, put some oil in the spam can and it works. I run the machine at high speed once every few months to let oil pass through the system, and I see it going through. Normally I stitch at very low speed, so even if I did not oil, the machine would still last another 100 years. You should be able to find a pan which will fit at the dealers or online, they should not cost too much. I never bothered, after figuring I will have to take a 2 hour drive to buy a matching one, when I already figured the spam can trick.

This is really not a big deal. Put it anywhere you are comfortable with, where it would rest on the casting. Plug the old hole with a dowel. Done. I would move the peg NW near that hole on the casting in your 1st picture.

Going by the rust on the oil intake ports, it can be clapped out quite badly. Witn my very similar (but lacking reverse) Juki 553 I am getting away with just keeping a cut off spam can full of oil under the oil pump (it came with a non-original non-matching oil pan).

Wow, very nice! Quality work and they look strong.

There is another popular "pseudo-industrial" zig-zag Singer out there to stay away from, but the model number escapes me. It's a glorified household machine which only looks like industrial, even though it comes with the K legs.

If you can get a zigzag machine, even better, but if not even an old Juki DDL-555 series should do fine on any fabric. I have 553 without reverse and until I screwed up presser foot pressure trying to adapt it for a roller foot to use on leather, it stitched anything and everything. These can be had for close to nothing (I fished mine out of a construction dumpster after noticing a K legs and a table top sitting beside it).

If you still have the broken off part, and he did not butcher it too bad trying to tap, and it is indeed cast iron, then it should be possible to bronze braze the parts back together.