CowboyBob Posted February 14, 2020 Report Posted February 14, 2020 Good deal,can't go wrong @ that price! Quote Bob Kovar Toledo Industrial Sewing Machine Sales Ltd. 3631 Marine Rd Toledo,Ohio 43609 1-866-362-7397
Members TomWisc Posted February 14, 2020 Author Members Report Posted February 14, 2020 Thanks Bob. I think first thing is to get educated as to how they are supposed to work. I will check the forum for what info I can find and get whatever manuals are available for these machines. Quote
mikesc Posted February 14, 2020 Report Posted February 14, 2020 Congratulations :) Quote "Don't you know that women are the only works of Art" .. ( Don Henley and "some French painter in a field" )
Members dikman Posted February 14, 2020 Members Report Posted February 14, 2020 Great buy! Now comes the fun. Quote Machines wot I have - Singer 51W59; Singer 331K4; Seiko STH-8BLD; Pfaff 335; CB4500. Chinese shoe patcher; Singer 201K (old hand crank)
Members Handstitched Posted February 15, 2020 Members Report Posted February 15, 2020 At $80, thats a bargain . Good luck with them , you've got us all intrigued now So the journey begins . HS Quote ' I have a very gweat friend in Wome called Biggus Dickus, He has a wife you know, do you know whats she's called? Incontinentia.......Incontinentia Buttocks '
Members TomWisc Posted February 15, 2020 Author Members Report Posted February 15, 2020 So I have been checking out the Singer 211W155 tonight. Spending a lot of time looking at stuff on this forum and also just general machine cleaning. As I turn the pulley everything moves so smoothly. It is not connected to a motor. So I thought why not try to sew a few stitches by moving the pulley by hand. The machine came with a leather needle. I put some 138 nylon thread through the needle and stitched 2 pieces of bison 6 oz together. It worked flawlessly. I changed the stitch size from 6 spi to 10 spi and worked fine. When I picked up the machine it had 2 internal parts in a bag taped to the machine. They look old and worn. Why would someone do that? So being the eternal optimist, I thought maybe the prior owner had the machine repaired, and these were the parts that were replaced. So tomorrow I will clean the dust, etc. off the machine and oil everything. I guess time to price a table and servo motor! I do have a local industrial machine dealer so I may bring it to him to go over it also. Quote
Members dikman Posted February 15, 2020 Members Report Posted February 15, 2020 It's stitching, so there can't be too much wrong with it. At that price you've done extremely well. Quote Machines wot I have - Singer 51W59; Singer 331K4; Seiko STH-8BLD; Pfaff 335; CB4500. Chinese shoe patcher; Singer 201K (old hand crank)
Evo160K Posted February 16, 2020 Report Posted February 16, 2020 TomWisc, this may be useful: http://dixiesewing.com/MANUALS/SINGERPARTS2/43-1%20-%2043-6.pdf Quote
Members jimi Posted February 16, 2020 Members Report Posted February 16, 2020 On 2/14/2020 at 3:51 PM, Constabulary said: Wow - now that's a machine I never have seen or even heard of. Now i would have thought you saw them in this picture i uploaded a while back? Quote
Members TomWisc Posted February 16, 2020 Author Members Report Posted February 16, 2020 8 hours ago, Evo160K said: TomWisc, this may be useful: http://dixiesewing.com/MANUALS/SINGERPARTS2/43-1%20-%2043-6.pdf Thanks for the link to the parts manual. I'm sure it will help a lot. I looked up the machine age in the Singer serial number index and it looks like it was built in 1911. Quote
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