29-4

[nylonRigging]

Slowly getting cleaned up and looking presentable . Was way to dirty to be put with rest of my machines .
29-4 /1914 . took apart and stripped the Treadle Stand and Top . had it all Powder-coated black and putting back together .
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[mikesc]

Cute..progressing well, everyone should have a 29K something ( or it's equivalents ) ..see Constabulary's "sig".. :)

[nylonRigging]

Everyone should have one ...LOL . 29-4 is cool little stitcher . I was going to slap it on a spare table with servo and just make more modern up-date  . But the more I looked at the old Cast metal, the more it just made sense to preserve and keep it all together as a whole unit .  Price was not to bad 200-$ for the powder-coat job at shop down the street.
I will put a little time into the Head and clean it up, will just bolt Treadle stand on a caster wheel frame base when I done, and keep over in the corner with a couple other machines I got on caster wheels .
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[nylonRigging]

On the Head now and slowly tearing down and cleaning between sewing orders and other projects . Treadle Stand I Powder Coated . but i will only shoot the head with Enamel and clear-coat with some new decals .

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Edited August 11, 2019 by nylonRigging

[jimi]

Hi Nylon, That would be a pity to loose those old decals? the new ones have no detail at all on them and just look solid. (at least the ones i have seen) Good luck with the restoration.

[nylonRigging]

Ya I pondered that for a while and the decals are there but are pretty worn and gone on some of them especially the floral on arm and the one on top of main body .

About the only ( 2-color ) complete sets of 29 short and long-arm ( Factory decals with the floral ) that I can find that look worth putting on a 29 restoration .  Is the Keeler Sales out of lakeland Florida. . but they wanting almost 70-$ usd for entire sets .

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Edited August 11, 2019 by nylonRigging

[cdthayer]

I equate a re-paint and installation of new decals on an old sewing machine to years past (1970s?) of guys putting chrome valve covers on an old car.  “Flippers” have been doing that to cars for years.  It doesn’t usually make it work any better (even when adding the chrome oil filler pipe vented cover cap didn’t seem to make the car perform any better. It still smoked and burned oil), but flippers seemed to think that it made the car more valuable.

When I see a repaint sewing machine, I think, “Oh, oh, what’s wrong with this machine?”

Keep the old decals that show a history of the machine.  It’s been through some hard times and survived.  Let it tell its story.

CD in Oklahoma

[nylonRigging]

I just guilty of having  pride in my quality work and in the machines I sit behind . I have nothing against Old machines . I still have/use regularly a, 1951 112w140  and a 1957 269W141 .  I just have a thing for keeping all my machine I use clean and tuned, and with the shop floor swept . This 29 is old but it is just to dirty to keep in my sew room with other machines I own . And I do plan using the 29 and it will come in handy I am sure from time to time .
I don't think I am ??  just slathering some lipstick on a pig, with paint on surface cover . I am going threw all that moves also, cleaning off years of dirt/old oil with a brush and solvent .  It still stitching nice, and for it's age and I think I can get a year or two out of it still . in ( 1/4" thick ), it is still doing 7 SPI . So it not quit a sloppy parts donor machine yet .

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