Members shoepatcher Posted December 29, 2018 Members Report Posted December 29, 2018 Jimi, I have to say, even after 4 years later, this project still blows me away how well you did rebuilding this scrap of a machine into a nice workable 335 and I rebuild machines!!!!! Truly a great job and labor of love. I once rebuild a Singer 168101 post about this bad but I was able to get most of the parts and screws and that made it easier than what you had to do. glenn Quote
Members jimi Posted December 29, 2018 Author Members Report Posted December 29, 2018 10 hours ago, shoepatcher said: Jimi, I have to say, even after 4 years later, this project still blows me away how well you did rebuilding this scrap of a machine into a nice workable 335 and I rebuild machines!!!!! Truly a great job and labor of love. I once rebuild a Singer 168101 post about this bad but I was able to get most of the parts and screws and that made it easier than what you had to do. glenn Thanks for your kind words Glenn, I could do this kind of stuff all day if people would pay me hahaha... The pity was it arriving broken, as i would have liked to keep the original parts on it instead of changing them, but sometimes that´s what happens. For sure parts are the biggest problem if you don´t have a few donor machines lying around of similar type. Almost nothing metric fits. I did buy another cheap 335 a couple of months ago (thanks to Danishman here on the forum and his barn find) and took some pictures of the restoration but it was in a lot better condition and only really needed cleaning up so there was nothing really special about it in that sense. i will maybe just put them up here instead of starting a new thread??? Thanks again Glenn, Regards Jimi. Quote
alexitbe Posted December 29, 2018 Report Posted December 29, 2018 Hi Jimi... Yes, please post them here... I would like to see also.. Alex Quote
Members jimi Posted December 29, 2018 Author Members Report Posted December 29, 2018 I have to start off by giving a big thanks to Soren (Danishman) here on the forum for his help, patience and very good packing and getting this 335 to me. This machine came from his barn find, as you know Soren found a barn full of Pfaff and other machines which the new owners did not want, so after looking at a couple of the pictures he sent i saw a 335 in the middle of the 145 land and said to Soren that this would possibly be worth while picking up. He said he was not interested in it as his wife already had a very good 335 so i thought i might be able to push it in the room "somewhere"??. This is a similar type of restoration as the first one in this thread, the big difference being a lot less rust and no broken parts to fix after posting. Here are some pictures of the tear down and build up. I am not a sewing machine tec and do this mainly to save a few bob and learn at the same time. So if you see me do something wrong in the pictures, do not copy it! hoho.. First the Box??? This is a very well packed machine.. 10/10 for Soren.. There was padding all around the machine and very tight, no movement. in the last picture foam had been taken out from the sides. As you can see, compare this with the black one and straight away you can see the difference. bottom of the stand is present, no broken parts, less rust better paint. But... it is a machine taken from a working place and stuck in a barn?? so Wattssap?? Hand turning is free wheelin Franklin so Let´s start by cleaning the parts that are rusty, this time i am NOT going to see if it sews first, because i am sure this will. Quote
Members jimi Posted December 29, 2018 Author Members Report Posted December 29, 2018 I will skip the front as you can see it is just taking off the thread guides and feet and needle plate etc.. This screw stud will come out by loosening the screw out from the back right hand side, the one you can see is for the curved plate that stops the spring. As you can see i have taken this apart to clean everything but if you were taking this off i think you could leave the stud and spring on with the plate and just take off the top screw and this one. Quote
Members jimi Posted December 29, 2018 Author Members Report Posted December 29, 2018 Seems to have a timing mark on the hand wheel? Looks like the back foot is just beginning to go down when it is at this position. Quote
Members jimi Posted December 29, 2018 Author Members Report Posted December 29, 2018 Ohhps! out of focus. just going from screw to screw and taking them out This part was not on the old black one, it is for the pin that goes through the head to open the tension disks. Once cleaned we can see the reverse order instead of taking the same pictures twice. So this is pretty much where i want to get to with this one also. no shafts coming out etc... because i think they don´t need to come out. Under here someone has put a silver like grease on the pinions and the small box for collecting the oil is missing, hence the two holes with no screws. so after putting oil down the tube from the front, this would go onto the pinions and any surplus fall in the box. So i think i will leave the grease on until i find a box ( could be a couple of years, that´s all??) Not too different from the black 335. Quote
Members jimi Posted December 29, 2018 Author Members Report Posted December 29, 2018 (edited) Is there a number hidden under the paint?? Natural soap and warm water.. Remember if you want to take out these bushings to unscrew the two grub screws first. I should have taken the right hand side bushing out first, as the left one was inside and not standing proud of the hole, this way the bushing would have fallen out in the middle. so i had to get both out the same side as the right hand one did not leave space enough for the other to drop out.Bahh no worries. They were not that dirty really?? I personally don´t like hammering old parts out of casting!! you know why?? That`s better. Oh, one thing to remember, the position of the bushings, you will see why later. Edited December 29, 2018 by jimi Quote
Members jimi Posted December 29, 2018 Author Members Report Posted December 29, 2018 Just to make sure the holes are free from dirt and in line with the casting otherwise you wont be able to oil the shaft from here. Sorry, in the last pictures of the bushings you don´t see the holes but they also have holes in them to let pass the oil to the shaft through the bushing. In this picture the screwdriver is passing through the casting and the bushing. That is a piece of steel bar for tapping out the top bushing for cleaning the rust, not the foot bar! I think now that it has no rust and it is clean i will give it a couple of coats of lacquer to protect it again.... Quote
Members jimi Posted December 29, 2018 Author Members Report Posted December 29, 2018 So parts are cleaned and ready for assembly.. Quote
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