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I came across this Consew 18 a few weeks ago in my storage area at work. I haven't seen it before as it has no table. (In my defense, I have 300 machines in storage) I brought it into the shop and I'm hoping next week to start going through it. I find the hole in the bed fascinating. I wish I knew the story behind it. I dropped a Singer 211 head 4' off a loading dock and the bed broke in half. Anyway, here's a few pictures, more to follow time permitting.

Regards,Eric

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I would really like to spend a day with you on the job....I'm sure what I could learn would be very helpful, both in mechanics and about different machine types. It would appear your job never gets stale.

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Joe Esposito

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Never a dull moment, and I'm in teaching mode a lot with my apprentice. I wrote a curriculum for new mechanics. If you survive a week of theory lecture, I let you touch the machines. There's an open invitation for anyone who gets out this way to stop in for a visit.

Regards, Eric

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Sounds like a visit there could be as fascinating as the firearms museum in Cody!

I smiled when I saw Seiko on the shaft in the second photo.

Machines wot I have - Singer 51W59; Singer 331K4; Seiko STH-8BLD; Pfaff 335; CB4500.

Chinese shoe patcher; Singer 201K (old hand crank)

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Sounds like a visit there could be as fascinating as the firearms museum in Cody!

I smiled when I saw Seiko on the shaft in the second photo.

I was a bit surprised myself. My mom has a near mint Morse home machine from the 50's. It's all metal, and on the casting is stamped Toyota!

Regards,Eric

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Badge engineering started about 3 days after production of sewing machines started Eric!!!

Your Consew 18 is a Seiko 18 which was previously badged a Singer 18U188 until Singer went belly up.

Those Morse - and hundreds of other brands - of domestic machines from the 50's and 60's were built in Japan and are some of the best domestic machines ever built.

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I wrote a curriculum for new mechanics.

Hi,

you couldn't be talked into putting that tutorial online, could you? I always love to learn from the pros.

Greets

Ralf C.

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Hi,

you couldn't be talked into putting that tutorial online, could you? I always love to learn from the pros.

Greets

Ralf C.

I would if it could stand on it's own, but I wrote it to coincide with my lecture and dry erase board. Looking back, I should have recorded it the last time I presented it, (last summer for our Seattle factory). It is so much easier to present the theory away from any machine, so I could actually do it at home. I used to do it with a machine, but it was kind of like the elephant in the room.

Regards, Eric

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Downloaded the parts and instruction manual from Consew this morning. So far it looks like the only parts I'll be needing are different presser feet once I decide what I'm going to use this for.

Regards, Eric

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Ya think that hole was punched to make sure the drip pan could be adequately oiled? :nono:

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