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@stitchinsue1 Do you mean an industrial sewing machine? Or a smaller domestic? The domestic will have an internal motor, the industrial will have it mounted under the table. A quick search for " Singer 211g manual" on your favorite search engine will turn up a couple of Service manuals. I also saw a result for a "w211" that looked like a domestic machine, thus my question.

Maybe Sewing Machine Oil? Not to be a smart ass, but just be sure you've lubricated it properly. Sometimes it's the simple things that bite us.

I hope you bought the machine just for the cool hardware.

Unsolicited nice bleating is probably a sincere compliment, particularly if they don't realize it's something you made yourself.

With DwightT's hook setup as above, you could just set the thread spool on the bench behind the machine. In fact, that's one solution for using cross wound thread on machines with vertical spool pins - set the thread in a coffee cup behind the machine.

I'm late to the party here but ... "Cross Wound" spools are meant to feed from the top, as you see on industrial machines. That's why newer domestics have angled or horizontal spool pins, so they can use the newer style cross wound spools of thread. I've also seen a recommendation that the top of the thread stand on industrials should be ... I think 1.5 times higher than the spool it's coming off. (EDIT: I see KGG earlier said 2.5 times. I'd say he's probably right) I don't know how any of this would affect the twisting problem mentioned earlier. On the domestics, people have trouble using cross wound spools on vertical spool pins, especially after they throw the spool pin felt away. The thread feeds all janky and jerks back and forth.

To be clear, I didn't mean you shouldn't be critiquing your work or asking for others opinions, just that we all tend to be hard on ourselves. You are correct, other perspectives are helpful.

You are way overthinking this my friend. You're seeing it with the artist's eye. It's a pretty spectacular piece. You may wish you do it differently, as the creator. To most people, it would be indistinguishable as far as "right" or "wrong". I'll agree with DwightT, I prefer the undyed version. Depending ... 😃

Yeah, that does qualify as "real" or "true". I guess the word I should have used was "conventional". Tangent: would the binding type of feed (flat, non-dropping) be problematic for conventional kinds of sewing? Either cloth or leather? Just curious, really. I always look past binding machines, even if they're a steal.

In case you don't know, the "SV" means it was a Special Variant or close enough. Even if you find something about the 108W36, there's still something different. Is it a true Unison Feed? As in the feed dogs drop and the foot and needle walk? A lot of times on here we see Binding Machines where the feed dog runs back and forth but doesn't drop. Yep, I'd have been on that one in a heartbeat.

I'll add this to my Philosopher Next Door series.

You're not alone in that. A lot of it is the consolidation of everything under large search engines and giant social media sites. The Walmart-ization of information, killing smaller, specialized types of websites.

Ok, here it is. 😬 ... I did think about the 60 days thing. As long as people can find him.

I kind of remember that post. I wouldn't be very happy if a perfectly fine post got deleted for no reason. Did you click on your user name and scroll through your posts to see if it's there? Maybe it got flipped to a different subforum? I can't imagine it just got deleted and nobody said something to you if there was a problem. EDIT: Are you thinking of the Prosthetic post? It's had a comment like that from Chuck and a little traffic.

Let's move you into The Marketplace under "Services".

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of even talking on the phone, much less trying to call someone who I know is busy anyway. But, I think the reality is that it wouldn't be worth cataloging and putting online a whole crap ton of obscure parts. Hopefully, he'll respond to your email.

As usual, I'm not the expert on these things, but I've always understood that on a true twin needle machine, the left needle needs right hand twist thread. (Not necessarily correct - see below) The reason they get away with it on domestics with the double needle attachment is that it uses the same bobbin for both threads. I'd bet if you dig back thru old Singer manuals, there will be a reference. EDIT: I don't know where I got the idea of right twist thread for the left needle. I've looked through a couple of pdf manuals I have and they both say left hand twist in both needles.

This is what I had to do. I can't recall exactly what had to be reshaped, but it was fast and easy.

@metalandpatch I split you out into a new topic. Hopefully you'll get some good feedback. Mine is that I did one on a 29K3 a few years back. In my case, the exact part is no longer to be found so I had to modify one for a later machine. Other than that, it was uneventful and worked as expected.

I remember these;

Get a few. Early on I happened into Black Rock's Leather N' Rich and it's pretty much all I use. Once a year or so and rain just beads up and rolls off. Though I managed to accumulate at least a half dozen other products along the way, the Leather N' Rich is the stuff.

I also think people like the "one stop shopping" of (I hate to even type it) things like facebook. All their notifications in one place. But then the social media service becomes the keeper of all your content and the gatekeeper of all your users. Ask the gun people how that's worked out. I exited fb when they took down firearms classifieds. Even if we had a "Log In With fb" feature, then this site would lose control of it's user base. But, if you guys are saying it's everywhere, maybe the tide will turn back. We have a lot of traffic, but most of it is window shopping.

Well, Boss Lady has the bots that register to spam us pretty well down. For the moment ... Posting activity here of late has been pretty quiet, even with a steady trickle of new users registering. Even a few short years ago when I first joined there was so much activity, it was hard to keep up. Maybe it's just seasonal. I don't know, maybe after 20 years, most of the questions have been answered.

I would call Toledo Industrial Sewing Machines. They had some small, obscure parts I needed a while back. None of it is listed on their website.

For that much money, it better do the sewing for me...