Singer 29K70 Restoration

[kgg]

8 hours ago, Wizcrafts said:

Since you are missing the paddle spring, you may also need the two tiny screws that hold it on. You can get them with the spring from @shoepatcher, or from any long time industrial sewing machine dealer near you.

If the old screws are still in the needle bar, leave them in place until you get the new spring. Carefully unscrew them and set them apart from each other so you can screw them back into the same holes they came out of. This is because the head of one or both may have been filed down to clear the round housing as it revolves around the needle bar. If you install them in opposite holes the head of the screw or screws may gouge the housing.

If you have to install new screws, tighten them all the way and carefully file across the outer edges of the screws to taper them into the curve of the needle bar.

Great information, thank you.

kgg

[RockyAussie]

On 10/17/2022 at 12:10 PM, kgg said:

That spring on closer examination is missing. Another part to replace. Thank you for the link to the manual. I did have that manual. I am having a job to tracking down a manual for Singer 29K70. It seems as though the 29K70 was short lived after replacing the 29k58, 60, 62 series and then replaced by the Singer 29K 71, 72, 73 series machines. Another question I have is normally the top thread is tensioned by the top tensioner but for Darning you would use the darning tensioner on the side. Why, what difference would make and are there any video of a 29K's out there showing it Darning?

kgg

Would this link be of any help - https://www.manualslib.com/products/Singer-29k70-701703.html

[kgg]

45 minutes ago, RockyAussie said:

Would this link be of any help

Thank you, I'll go through it later today.

kgg

[shoepatcher]

kgg,

You have the front hub assembly.  If you are not going to move the wheel from the end to the front, take the assembly off and seel it.  People4 looking for those all the time especially if they have a long arm.  The sell for $150.00US plus.  Just a thought.

glenn

[RockyAussie]

On 10/15/2022 at 7:57 AM, kgg said:

The difference so far appears to be the Singer 29K71 handwheel was cased without the ability to accept the small wooden crank knob for easier hand wheeling.

This part of it just does my head in. I do respect very much Singer quality and design but ...why have a freewheeling catch on the hand wheel and not a knob to turn it with???? If you disengage the hand wheel you could not load your bobbin. I suspect that the disengage function would not have ever been used on this machine. I agree with @shoepatcher about removing the front hub unless you have a hand wheel with a knob. Logically it would run more smoother and freely without having to run a set of gears for no purpose.

[kgg]

1 hour ago, RockyAussie said:

why have a freewheeling catch on the hand wheel and not a knob to turn it with????

I should have corrected my post the handwheel does have the ability to accept a turning knob but it appears that it was removed at a very early part of it's life or was never installed as there was no rubbing marks whatsoever around the hole. On cleanup I figure they must have just removed the thread from the needle and wound a bobbin or wound a bobbin as they were sewing with the motor running. Everything on the end shaft was seized to the shaft the eccentric, the spring loaded disengaging pin and pullout mechanism were seized into both the hand-wheel and the eccentric, the two eccentric set screws, and the large center screw of the handwheel. The hardest part was getting the two set screws out then it was a matter lots of oil, pounding wedge, a 32 oz hammer and a few good selective words finally got those parts off the end shaft. The winding arm looks like it was never placed to the front side of the frame as the groves in the side mounting shaft look like they were never touched by the two sets screws.

Personally I like having the handwheel on the side of the patcher as I think it is more convenient then reaching to the end of the machine to handwheel. Once I get it running I plan on adding a couple of items to this machine like what I added to the my Singer 29K71 so I can utilize the darning tensioner as a bobbin thread tensioner and wind a bobbin as I am sewing. 

kgg

 

[Talisien]

So cool. Nice find and I could honestly read what you folks are saying just about all day long