Singer 45D91 Restoration

[Constabulary]

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

 

[billybopp]

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

[MADMAX22]

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.

[jimi]

Yes it smelled of new paint on the web!

[SARK9]

Absolutely beautiful and a great machine to find and preserve!

-DC

 

[Yetibelle]

Really nice work!  I really like the grey. 

 

[dikman]

Tut tut, I saw a couple of paint runs!

Seriously, a great job there, I reckon you can feel proud to have resurrected it.

[Evo160K]

Just beautiful.....you're an inspiration, Folker. 

Congratulations,

[bikermutt07]

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?

[Constabulary]

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