Singer 7-33

[shoepatcher]

Very Nice job so far trash treasure.  Love to see it when it is done!!!!!

glenn

[VanRhodes]

I love how much time you are putting in to restoring that old beast. I'll see if I can get you of the rocking shaft tomorrow when I'm at the shop again. 

[VanRhodes]

I got the parts from Gregg @keystonesewing today and I wasnt really expecting the tapered pins to be this big and for a moment I thought he had sent me the wrong pins. However, I guess youre supposed to drive them in and then just cut to size wich is kinda neat  Thank you for the super speedy shipping!

 

Yetibelle: I also included a picture the shows the approximate angle between the two sides of the rocking shaft.  

 

[Yetibelle]

The front part is fused to the rocker bar and has no play in it so I left it for now.  The back part had a bent set-pin. I managed to get the bent one out of the back and re-pin it so now it is tight again. I also found one that was slightly longer so It does not get lost in there.  Once they are set they are not easy to remove.  I will eventually replace that setup once I find a new rocker-bar. 

 

[VanRhodes]

If all else fails you can always buy the new style rock shaft from Keystone sewing. That is said to mitigate the broken-pin-syndrome and I gotta say the NSRS is looking pretty darn sweet. 

 

[Gregg From Keystone Sewing]

Glad things are looking on the up and up on this thread.  On the rock arms in the back we want a 10 degree angle.

[VanRhodes]

Yeah. Cant thank you enough for all your help Gregg! 

Now I just gotta figure out how to get the shuttle race moving to adjust the needle to shuttle relation. For some reason I cant get it moving closer to the needle. Also somewhat worrried about the amount of sideways play in the shuttle hook. I can push it closer to the needle and make it shift a few millimeters but I'm not sure if this will actually be an issue while sewing. I dont have any play even close to this in my Adler 20. 

[sandyt]

With a paper shim, you could move the shuttle race to the needle. I have read this in an old adler manual.

Don't know how many play you have to the needle though when you push the hook sideways to the needle. Is it almost touching already? Looks like it.

I did this a few years back with an Adler. When I pushed the hook manually towards the hook, they would touch. But when sewing, I never had a problem. They didn't touch. But this was in my case though. I wouldn't recommend it to someone else, but it worked for me. 

Sandy.

[CowboyBob]

If you look underneath,just to the right of the race(what the shuttle rides in) you'll see a large slotted screw,towards the bottom,you can loosen this & move the race left to right.

[VanRhodes]

CowboyBob: I did loosen the screw in an attempt to slide the shuttle race closer to the needle (just like I did on my adler 20), but this one is properly stuck for some reason. Its not even budging.