Singer 111Wd180... Yes You Read That Correctly..

[alexitbe]

Now, I picked this up sometime ago and it was stuck solid and in a dreadful state. To be honest, I have not done much, except to clean the head and the mechanism in the base. I used oven cleaner, which really helped and a little bit of patience.

It is most unusual, that it has a reverse and adjustable stitch length. Max stitch length is about 4mm. It is also compound feed, ie needle an dog feed and not the more usual presser foot feed.

It came with two wheels, one as a clip on attachement and the other is a long solid presser bar with wheel permanently attached.

I got it to stitch tonight and it easily handle d4.5 mm (1/6") of leather.

Model number and stich length adjustment lever

Serial number (C3851050)

Front

Head

Accessories

First Stitches

If anyone has experience of fitting the wheel feed, or knows of a good photo, I would like to hear about it.

I also got the table,treadle, two pulleys and some Singer spool holders that came with this... But space is too limited.

I don't know if the serial number can verify where this was made. The oil sign is written in German, but mabye it does not neccessarily mean it was made hear.

Cheers

Alex

[TinkerTailor]

According to this page is may have been from santiago chile in 1967+. The 2 letter codes are near the bottom:
http://www.sewalot.com/dating_singer_sewing_machine_by_serial_number.htm

[Constabulary]

This is a pre 1945 mfg Singers made in Wittenberge, Prussia. This is the first 111WD I have ever seen. I only own a spare parts box with 111WD marking.

These are on of the few almost unknown Singers (from my experience). The only source I know is a Singer (Prussia) mfg. list on the VERITAS website:

http://home.arcor.de/veritasklub/naehmaschinenwerk_produktionsprofil/seite02_singer.htm

I guess the WD ID´s the different stitch length adjuster which is very unusual for the 111 type machines. Too bad the adjuster knob is missing. I think it´s almost impossible to replace it with an original part. I could only imagine replacing it with a Pfaff adjuster but nut sure if this will fit at all.

Could you post some close ups of the hook era?

[Constabulary]

Can`t see it good enough - you probably have to replace the presser foot bar to install the roller foot bar but before you swing the screwdriver check if the bar has the same dimensions - look s pretty long. Maybe it belonged to an other machine. You have another roller foot but I can't see what it exactly is.

Maybe the pictures of this auction will help:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Rolling-Needle-Feed-Machine-Singer-110w125-Tag-3695-/271543596201

[alexitbe]

Hello Constabulary,

Hope you are well. As usual you are a wealth of knowledge... I am glad to hear that it is slightly unusual.. I only went to pick it up for the table and the Singer so I was very pleasantly surprised... Its amazing what you can pick up in the old DDR. The old lady said it was old, even when she got it in the 60's. She was a little sad to see it go, which was a shame.

I don't really want to use the wheel that is attached to the long presser foot, because I don't have any information on how to fit it properly. The attachable wheel is different from the one on ebay, it seems just to clip on. I shall take closeup pictures of it and another thing I do not have a clue on. Might be interesting.

I was really surprised that it stiched first time, without any adjustment. I guess these Prussians knew how to build sewing machine... and maybe a few other things..

Is my description of it being a compound feed correct? Just needle and feed dogs....

If there is anything anyone wants me to photograph jsut let me knw....

Thank you TinkerTailor for your suggestion too... It all helps... There is no information on this machine at all..

Edited May 11, 2015 by alexitbe