My aqusition of 111w155's

[DSloop]

I responded to an add on my local Craigslist for "Industrial sewing machines for sale". The picture was of a Singer111w155 and a table, at a decent price. I went and looked at the machine and bought it. It had been sitting on the floor in a basement that was used as an upholstery shop, for a couple years, so it did have some light surface rust and the usual grime and spiderwebs. I cleaned it with BrakeKleen and polished  some of the nastier spots. After oiling everything up and making sure it would not destroy itself I put it on the table where my 111w115 was, powered by a servo motor. After some more tweaking it runs like a champion. This is good, right?

I talked with the lady that was selling the machines ( her dad had died suddenly a couple years ago) and she was wanting to clean the basement out, as it had become a hoarders dream or nightmare. Her father bought any and everything that interested him and there is a lot of stuff. I made a deal for the other two 111w155's and all of the leather, fabric and anything that was used for the upholstery shop. Two machine two huge L shaped tables, four motors and a pile of other things. Still need to make  a few more trips to get it all.

In the goodies were some NOS Singer needles for a 97series  machine. The hand printed label on the boxes is faded badly, I might be reading it wrong. Here is a picture. These needles are for sale if anyone can use the m, I cannot. There are 77 of the smaller leather tip needles -3.044 inches long, .065 diameter, and 23 of the larger fabric needles, - .092 diameter and 3.030 long and one oddball that is .100 diameter and 2 .744 long.

The upper box has 97 x 3,- 26  on it, the lower box has 97 x 10. I cannot see a thread size.

 

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Edited January 21, 2019 by DSloop
update

[shoepatcher]

how much for the needles?

glenn

[DSloop]

Make me an offer and lets see how close we are in thinking. I did research and learned they are like unicorn teeth.