Service & Repair manual Singer 29

[chrisash]

I would assume that at some time Singer would have produced a more detailed manual for repair meant to work on the vast number of Singer 29k's rather than just the parts manual and blown up diagram of the location of the parts

Also whatever happened to all the original blueprints of all singer machines, things like that are often collected  and stored in a museum somewhere for the future, is there a singer museum somewhere that holds all the old designs

[CowboyBob]

Have you seen this manual?http://parts.singerco.com/IPinstManuals/29K70.pdf

Back when these machines were made Singer had repair techs that would come out to repair machines.They wanted to keep them working & making $$ for them so they rarely made repair manuals for that reason.

 

[chrisash]

Thanks Bob, yes i had that one, I have contacted Singer Museum in Scotland to see what archives they have and will post back when i get some info. It would seem strange if all the technical data was destroyed with such a large factory in the UK, normally someone gobbles it up for the future

[Constabulary]

29K´s are the freakin easiest machines to repair / restore. You find almost everything you need here in the forum (regarding technical information). Hundreds of folks have restored them. It just depends on what subclass you have - and there have been several from 29K1 to 29K173. Some parts are still available but depends on the subclass you have. Most parts for the earlier subclasses are obsolete / out of stock for decades already but for the later subclasses you can get after market parts. A few parts even fit for all 29K models or you can modify them to fit.

However - if you get a response I´m sure a lot of people would be very interested in what you get.

[shoepatcher]

To my knowledge, Singer never produced a service manual for the 29K machines.  Believe, I have looked for one for almost 40 years.  Adler did produce one for the 30-10. 50, 70.  A lot of that info can be used on the singers.

glenn

[Uwe]

On 8/25/2018 at 4:02 AM, chrisash said:

Also whatever happened to all the original blueprints of all singer machines

A couple of factory fires and the occasional world war is what happened, in a nutshell.

Edited August 27, 2018 by Uwe

[archerydude]

I need to change the thread tension plates on my 29K 15 but I can't work out how the plate with the holes doesn't seem to want lift up high enough to get the plates out

What am I missing?

[Wizcrafts]

8 hours ago, archerydude said:

I need to change the thread tension plates on my 29K 15 but I can't work out how the plate with the holes doesn't seem to want lift up high enough to get the plates out

What am I missing?

You may have to remove the foot, needle clamp and stitch regulator, unscrew the revolving head section, and pull it off the machine. leaving the needle bar attached to the take-up thread control arm. That should let you remove anything that's in the way of getting the top tension disks off. Before reassembling, oil the needle bar and the parts inside the revolving head. This would also be a good time to replace the feed motion bell crank if you are getting less than 5 stitches per inch into 6 or 7 ounces of shoe upper leather.

[Constabulary]

you either have to take off the head and disassemble it or - in come cases - there sometimes is a hole on the underside of the bulge where the threaded post sits in and you can hammer it out from the underside

[archerydude]

Thanks, mine has a hole underneath the bulge I'll try that first

I have 2 29K's a 29K15 and a 29K60 I've been trying to find out roughly how old they are is there a link to an an archive or some thing that tells you what years the different models were produced from?