Bell Crank on Singer 29K31?

[metalandpatch]

Does anyone have any experience with replacement bell cranks from eBay made in China? TIA

Gene

[AlZilla]

@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.

[metalandpatch]

2 hours ago, AlZilla said:

@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.

Okay thanks for the info. Mine is a Singer 29k31. Ordered part #82167.

[metalandpatch]

On 2/23/2026 at 8:58 PM, metalandpatch said:

Okay thanks for the info. Mine is a Singer 29k31. Ordered part #82167.

Today I received the new bell crank lever part number 82167. The part looks like a quality part, however the taped holes seem to have metric threads. The original screws fit, but just don't feel right. So what I wound up doing was getting my local welder to tig weld a bead on both sides of my original bell crank lever tip. I took it home and filed and fit it to my motion ring groove. The machine runs a lot quieter with no slop. While I was in there I installed the missing needle bar spring. Tomorrow I'll thread it up and see if my stitch length was restored.

Gene