Singer treadle 27 sewing perfect, tiny stitches in upholstery leather! Yippy!

[horselady21]

Oh.

Duh.

Ok. Now I feel really, really stupid.

Omg.

[Wizcrafts]

HorseLady21;

This machine has what I call Poor Man's Reverse. You either spin the work 180 degrees, or lift the foot with the needle up and pull the work back a couple stitches and sew over them, or sew all the way around and stitch over the starting stitches.

Since you are using a Singer 27, you may not have a tension release with the foot lifted (mine doesn't). In this case, if you lift the foot and want to pull the material towards you to over-tack, pull some thread out of the top tension disks by hand. You can pull it anywhere between the tension disks and the take-up lever. Otherwise, you may bend or break the needle.

[horselady21]

How about renaming it Dumb Lady's Reverse. Geez. I guess when you spend 50 years on a modern machine flipping a reverse switch, you never imagine that such a thing never existed! Thanks for the info. I will just turn it 180.

I did something interesting with the belt on it that I will start a new post on.

[Northmount]

On 2016-04-27 at 9:23 AM, horselady21 said:

Oh.

Duh.

Ok. Now I feel really, really stupid.

Omg.

We all get caught on the wrong tack sooner or later.  Depends on where our thoughts are at the time.

Tom

[horselady21]

On 4/25/2016 at 11:12 AM, Wizcrafts said:

The 31-15 is a garment and tailoring machine, capable of sewing leather chaps and vests. It will need a roller foot conversion to feed properly. The conversion kit includes a 1" roller, a heavy duty single row feed dog and matching throat plate. The machine should be able to sew with #69 and possibly #92 thread, depending on its age and type of shuttle. I recommend titanium coated needles if you use double sided basting tape. You'll want to get #18, 19 and 20 needles, in system DBx1 / 16x257 / 1738

Any idea where I can get this conversion kit and/or the part #? Thanks!

[Wizcrafts]

6 hours ago, horselady21 said:

Any idea where I can get this conversion kit and/or the part #? Thanks!

Here's one source for a roller foot conversion kit. Most industrial sewing machine dealers I know carry these.