Members Constabulary Posted November 10, 2016 Author Members Report Posted November 10, 2016 Thanks folks! I´m now hopping to find my personal holy grale of sewing machines one day - A singer 97 head. Hey Jimi - seems you can sniff 45K threads on the web . Just have checked the parts and yes I have one. Send me a PM Quote ~ Keep "OLD CAST IRON" alive - it´s worth it ~ Machines in use: - Singer 111G156 - Singer 307G2 - Singer 29K71 - Singer 212G141 - Singer 45D91 - Singer 132K6 - Singer 108W20 - Singer 51WSV2 - Singer 143W2
Members billybopp Posted November 10, 2016 Members Report Posted November 10, 2016 Looks great, Constabulary! Congrats on a great find and great work. It gives me hope that I might one day find something similar. I think it would be a great learning experience to restore an old machine AND get something usable at the same time. I know I could do it with the fantastic help that you and others here provide. Thanks for sharing! Bill Quote
MADMAX22 Posted November 10, 2016 Report Posted November 10, 2016 Great job. Anyone taking this on I highly recommend starting with an old machine like this except for the parts being hard to find which is the big drawback. Got my Pfaff 145 mostly taken apart and the parts pile is about 3 times as big lol. Quote
Members jimi Posted November 10, 2016 Members Report Posted November 10, 2016 Yes it smelled of new paint on the web! Quote
Members SARK9 Posted November 10, 2016 Members Report Posted November 10, 2016 Absolutely beautiful and a great machine to find and preserve! -DC Quote Machines: Juki LU-563, Consew 206-RB5, Singer 20U33, Pfaff 481, Mitsubishi CU-865-22, Consew 29B, Rebadged Juki LU-562, Mitsubishi LS2-180, Seiko SK-6, Juki LG-158-1
Members Yetibelle Posted November 10, 2016 Members Report Posted November 10, 2016 Really nice work! I really like the grey. Quote One day I hope to learn how to sew..... Singer 111W155 - Singer 29-4 - Singer 78-1 - Singer 7-31 - Singer 109w100 - Singer 46W-SV-16 - Adler 20-19 - Cowboy CB-4500
Members dikman Posted November 11, 2016 Members Report Posted November 11, 2016 Tut tut, I saw a couple of paint runs! Seriously, a great job there, I reckon you can feel proud to have resurrected it. Quote Machines wot I have - Singer 51W59; Singer 331K4; Seiko STH-8BLD; Pfaff 335; CB4500. Chinese shoe patcher; Singer 201K (old hand crank)
Evo160K Posted November 11, 2016 Report Posted November 11, 2016 Just beautiful.....you're an inspiration, Folker. Congratulations, Quote
bikermutt07 Posted November 11, 2016 Report Posted November 11, 2016 Excellent job. Now it's ready for another 70 years. Can you enlighten us newbies on this machine? Sewing thickness, capabilities, and what not? Oh and most of all.......how does it sew? Quote I'm not paying 80 bucks for a belt!!! It's a strip of leather. How hard could it be? 4 years and 3 grand later.... I have a belt I can finally live with. Stitching is like gravy, it's only great if you make it every day. From Texas but in Bossier City, Louisiana.
Members Constabulary Posted November 11, 2016 Author Members Report Posted November 11, 2016 (edited) Thanks again @dikman - I know but the few runs dried out quite well you barely can see them. Hammertone sometimes can be tricky. I cannot claim that my machines have a perfect paint job but I´m pleased and thats good enough for me - well, I have seen many worse @bikermutt - I yet have only hand cranked it as I have no V-belt atm Well, capacity depends. The foot lift with hand lever is 14-14.5mm. But you can tweak it a little bit when you raise the presser foot bar a little bit. But that depends on the presser foot you are using as you have to take care of that the needle holder is not hitting the presser foot when you have lifted the foot and spin the hand wheel. So with a bit good will you can probably get 1 or 2 more millimeters - but that does nor make sense anymore, I think. So 1/2" of thickness is the standard capacity I´d say but of course depends on how hard / dense the martial is you want to sew. EDIT: regarding tweaking - the max. is barely 17mm with a slightly shorter shank ADLER 5 presser foot (Singer 45K and Adler 5 feet are interchangeable but Adler feet as slightly shorter) and the foot is not touching the needle plate. Thats cheating (or tweaking) but that's how you can get the most out of it. If it makes sense is another story. So maybe you can sew 14-15mm this way - MAYBE! Some pictures Edited November 11, 2016 by Constabulary Quote ~ Keep "OLD CAST IRON" alive - it´s worth it ~ Machines in use: - Singer 111G156 - Singer 307G2 - Singer 29K71 - Singer 212G141 - Singer 45D91 - Singer 132K6 - Singer 108W20 - Singer 51WSV2 - Singer 143W2
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