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Yes, I proof-read it after having seen it posted. Basically, I wrote that the unit is missing more parts than just the shuttle hook and bobbin and provided a Youtube link for reference. Singer 133KSV2 1930 machine - YouTube

Not worth more than its price in "motors" at the local scrap yard unless you come across someone who badly wants a clutch motor and is in a pinch. I'd been trying to sell a few of them for $20-40 a piece for 10 years than gave up.

My post disappeared. Wonder if mods removed it. Or maybe that's the answer to my disappeared thread: they just vanish for no reason. Wondering.

A large paperclip that hangs behind the machine works the same.

At the very least you should buy some visegrips.

It may have been used for quilting horse blankets as well. See if a feed dog can be installed. That's how I got by DDL-553: as a quilting machine w/o feed dog and with a ring quilting foot. After I've put a feed dog and regular foot on it it became a straight stitcher.

I like it. It follows the KISS principle.

Nice hawks and sheaths. Mind me asking, where do you usually buy heads? I am looking for nice 'hawk heads myself.

They are used on scope rings. Can get them cheap on Aliexpress. I used to get them locally but the fastener chain instituted $25 min order so they no longer get my business, unfortunately.

We the hobbyists and mom and pop shops may not be their main customer base. Could they be more active in the corporate segment from which they get most of their profits?

That's some fine scrap.

Every such carcass is a health hazard. Approach with care as diseases possibly carried by them range from tularemia to plague to anthrax.

I still can't wrap my head around two things: the amount of meat consumed around the globe and the increasing scarcity of leather. This blows my mind.

I've taken some parts from it, to put on my Mitsubishi, so it's not worth more than CDN$100 in its present state. Needs about $20-30 of investments.

We got our DDL-553, which is a heavy fabric version of 555, for free. We would have never considered paying US$200 for a used single needle lockstitch machine. When we tried it with leather it wouldn't feed nor would it climb onto and off the thicker seams. We tried a roller foot but it was a royal pain and did not make things any better. Oiling is not a problem when running at low speed because once a month we would floor it for a minute and that would pass enough oil through the wicks. It really only is a problem over many years of slow use.

Would buying a thread gauge and caliper be an option? That way you could find out the thread pattern and look to obtain the correct screws from alternative channels.

DDL-555? It's high-speed textile machine.

Isn't it like 10 pounds at College Sewing? A wad of caowool wrapped around an eBay alumina tube may be the solution for your quenching troubles. Blow a MAPP gas or propane torch diagonally into the tube with the spring inside until how enough and shove it out into your preferred quenching liquid.

OMG, you really are angry. What do you know of their margin and sales targets per model?

The solution to the 3d poverty is not uncontrollable immigration into the 1st world. It is called math, and math is tough. While X million people from the 3d world run across the borders, the 3d world adds 3*X babies. Now solve that equation with compassion alone.

How old? Hand-crank Singers can be used to replace zippers in jackets. Up to 2 layers of 3oz.

Nicely done is an understatement.

$250 does not leave much of a margin.

It's running like a top, knock on wood. The only thing that jumps out on me is that your needle may be too large for the thread, but I'll let more experienced members correct me on that.

You are not the first one to come here and get your pants in the knot over buying a domestic machine in the hope that it would stitch leather. I could lecture you on how salespeople are trained to size people and their budgets but you clearly know everything already, so I'll let you be. All I can tell you is that between myself and my wife we've gone over the 120 YO hand-crank Singer, a number of cast iron, pot metal, and plastic domestic machines, and now we own that which is in my sig line on top of 2x domestic Singers, 1x domestic Brother, and 1x domestic Kenmore of which only the latter is being used while the former 2x are collecting dust in the basement.