New Home 764

[JKHelms]

I bought a couple of sewing machines at a good deal and one is a New Home764.

does anyone have any knowledge of this machine, like what needles and bobbins it takes?

thanks in advance.

[Wizcrafts]

It probably takes the same HAx1 needles as all currently made domestic sewing machines. You can buy these needles at Joann Fabrics, Walmart, Hobby Lobby, etc. These needles have a flat side on the upper shank that makes sure they are properly aligned for the hook to pick off the thread loop. You can buy them in packs of 5 for a few dollars, or so. The smaller the size number, the smaller the needle and finer the thread. The largest commonly sold size would be #18 (aka: 110), which can pass button hole thread through the eye.

I am curious why you asked about this type of household machine on the Leather Sewing Machines Forum? The New Home is definitely NOT a leather sewing machine!

[JKHelms]

I didn't know where else to put it. 

Just looks like a decent machine. 

[Wizcrafts]

That's an industrial sewing machine! Funny, that the Google results for New Home 764 all showed a domestic zig zag machine from the mid 20th Century.

It is probably a rebranded tailoring machine. I see a rotary stitch length dial and a push down reverse lever. It is meant to be mounted on top of an industrial sewing machine table and powered by either a clutch or servo motor. The machine pulley is quite small, indicating that this is a high speed machine.

The top photo is not sharp enough to see what parts are there and what is missing.

 

[JKHelms]

9 hours ago, Wizcrafts said:

That's an industrial sewing machine! Funny, that the Google results for New Home 764 all showed a domestic zig zag machine from the mid 20th Century.

It is probably a rebranded tailoring machine. I see a rotary stitch length dial and a push down reverse lever. It is meant to be mounted on top of an industrial sewing machine table and powered by either a clutch or servo motor. The machine pulley is quite small, indicating that this is a high speed machine.

The top photo is not sharp enough to see what parts are there and what is missing.

 

I got it in a deal with a functional and running Singer 241-12.   After I looked at it closer, I think the New Home is worth fixing. The only parts missing are the bobbin carrier and bobbins that I can see. 

Finding these might be the problem. 

Any idea what it's a clone of.Wiz?

[Wizcrafts]

19 minutes ago, JKHelms said:

I got it in a deal with a functional and running Singer 241-12.   After I looked at it closer, I think the New Home is worth fixing. The only parts missing are the bobbin carrier and bobbins that I can see. 

Finding these might be the problem. 

Any idea what it's a clone of.Wiz?

I don't. But, if you post a sharper photo of it somebody may recognize what it is cloning. Sometimes a dealer will rebrand a no-name Chinese or Japanese sewing machine with their house brand name. Knowing this will help you find the missing parts and learn its probable specs.

To me, it looks like a high speed tailoring machine. If you look at the bottom and see a sump pump oil pickup, this will be confirmed. A forced oil machine needs to sit on a special oil pan and gasket. The pan needs to be filled to a certain mark to have the oil pumped to all the moving parts. Failure to do this results in the machine seizing.

FWIIW: Your 241 is also a high speed, oil pump machine. It must sit on top of a properly filled oil pan. Machines like this are expected to be operated at around 4000 rpm on a regular basis. They are usually setup on a table that has a clutch motor equipped with a pulley that is larger than the machine's pulley.

[CowboyBob]

Try the bobbin case from your Singer 241 in it,it should work.We stock them.

[DrmCa]

Going by the rust on the oil intake ports, it can be clapped out quite badly.

Witn my very similar (but lacking reverse) Juki 553 I am getting away with just keeping a cut off spam can full of oil under the oil pump (it came with a non-original non-matching oil pan).

[JKHelms]

9 hours ago, DrmCa said:

Going by the rust on the oil intake ports, it can be clapped out quite badly.

Witn my very similar (but lacking reverse) Juki 553 I am getting away with just keeping a cut off spam can full of oil under the oil pump (it came with a non-original non-matching oil pan).

It's not actually rust ,but plastic plugs in the holes and it does have an oil pump but no pan. 

Does the spam can work pretty good?

[DrmCa]

You will need at least some pan. Mine is from a different model machine, but it is a pan anyway, so I just trimmed a spam can to fit between the pan and the moving parts on the bottom of the machine, put some oil in the spam can and it works. I run the machine at high speed once every few months to let oil pass through the system, and I see it going through. Normally I stitch at very low speed, so even if I did not oil, the machine would still last another 100 years. You should be able to find a pan which will fit at the dealers or online, they should not cost too much. I never bothered, after figuring I will have to take a 2 hour drive to buy a matching one, when I already figured the spam can trick.

Edited October 11, 2017 by DrmCa

[PasoSailor]

On 10/5/2017 at 2:13 PM, JKHelms said:

I bought a couple of sewing machines at a good deal and one is a New Home764.

does anyone have any knowledge of this machine, like what needles and bobbins it takes?

thanks in advance.

HI - there - I just got one of the same machines (its' serial number 55!). It runs very smoothly, but I cannot find any information about it on line? We want to use it to make canvas (sunbrella) boat covers. Did you figure out the needle type to use? Any advice on links, etc? THANKS!