Learning or rather re-learning

[Davidmadd]

Over the years I've been involved with sewing machines, purely as a hobby of course, I have pretty much stumbled from one project to another and one sewing machine to another.  These have included a raft of domestic machines and quite a few industrial machines.  I have learned a lot and have been grateful for the help of those members who have advised and guided me with the queries I've put to the forum.

Typically I've a few machines that now need fairly in depth attention. For instance I have had a Singer 132K6 totally dismantled for the last few 9or more) years.  It was totally seized and crusty looking but I slowly dismantle it and cleaned the component parts.  I found nothing that would prevent it being re-assembled and got working again.  I have painted the body, cleaned all the components and blacked lots of bits ready for the re-assembly and that's as far as I got, but its time to push forward.  

I did the same with a Singer 29 and recently rebuilt it and its looking good and working fine but the 132 is a different beast altogether.

My query here is this:-

Does anyone have a basic guide to re-assembling such machines.  What I mean is, is there a book or some other literature that lists the things that should happen and in which order they should in relation to each other. For example. The basic function is that a needle falls and rises and the hook catches the thread and makes a stitch.  At the same time, or at least a critical time, the feed dogs do their stuff and move the fabric ready for a new stitch. at the same time the walking foot comes down and is synchronised with the presser foot....the stitch length can be altered so a mechanism interfaces with these action, the pick-up arm keeps the thread tensioned a bit using the pick up spring at just the right time etc etc etc, but it would be great to be able to know which bits of the puzzle to start with.  I found with the Singer 29K, that I needed to back track and part dismantle this bit or that bit because something else should have been done first.  I dont really want to do that with the 132K6 as its a beast of a machine and takes some manhandling.  I'm frankly finding that the total rebuild of this machine is a bit daunting and need all the help possible before getting really involved in the rebuild. Can anyone offer advice or help with identifying said literature than can point me in the right direction.???

Many thanks

David; Plymouth UK

 

Machines owned:-  Singer 132K6; Singer 111W154; Singer 111G155; Singer 29K; Singer 107W1; Singer 31K49; Singer 31K15; Singer 45K68; Singer 51K54; Brother 755; Singer 331K4, a couple more K31 and a host of domestic machines......