Singer Class 3W-1

[Springerpanhead]

I recently acquired a Singer class 3W-1 sewing machine. Really didn't need it as I have several other heavy machines in my shop, but I was such a neat piece of gear I couldn't resist. The serial # shows it was built in 1874 and it's complete and operating mechanically. Although I am quite familiar with how to string up complex industrials, this one is so simple it's kind of baffling me. Does anybody know how to string this old machine up? To avoid misunderstanding, this is the old class 3 where the Pittman arm from the treadle connects directly to the main drive gear and not to a belt pulley. Hope someone has a diagram or experience with one of these. In the meantime I will just keep trying combinations and hope I get lucky. I also need to know which hole on the shuttle the bobbin thread comes out of.

[shoepatcher]

Send pics so we can see the machine. Bob Kovar at Toledo might have a threading instruction sheet..

glenn

[Darren Brosowski]

There is an oddity with the serial number as Singer did not acquire Wheeler and Wilson until after the turn of the century so if it is branded "Singer" then it has been refinished at some stage.

In fact I can find no reference to a 3W1