Copy of Original 29K70 Manual

[Snakeoil]

I just made of my original 29K70 Manual. This came with my machine and says "Printed in Great Britain".

For printing purposes, the manual measures 3-1/2" wide and 5-3/8" high.

The staples were rotting away so before I restapled it, I took it apart and scanned it so that you could print out the pages using 2-sided printing and then stack and staple them to get the original manual. You could print the cover on cardstock for a stronger cover.

Unfortunately, it is 7.38mb file so I cannot attach here. I'll look for a site where I can post it for download. I think tinyurl might work. Facebook might be another option.

Rob

 

[mikesc]

Sent you a pm..read it ..keep the email addy in it to yourself .. :) ..J has it..so do the mods..

Glad that you are around.. :) Mike :)

[Snakeoil]

Thanks. Manual sent.

Rob

[mikesc]

Thanks Rob :) ..Original Singer 29K70 manual in English attached..

Singer 29K70 Orig Manual.pdf

[jimi]

Cheers Rob, That is a nice little book 

[Constabulary]

I have reworked the PDF and made it a bit more printer friendly and left out blank page and some rather "unimportant" pages but file is still to big to upload.

MikeSC - do you want me to send you the file? Seems you can upload larger files.

[mikesc]

Yes ..sure ..pm sent :)

[Snakeoil]

First, for clarity purposes, I'm going to use the following 2 terms in what I'm about to say.

Pages - These are the numbered pages in the manual

Sheets - These are the scanned images, each showing two pages in the PDF file.

I scanned the pages as they were originally printed. I oriented them in the scanner so that they should directly overlay each other when using 2-sided printing. If you print the scanned sheets using 2-sided feature, you should be able to cut the 2 sided sheets, fold them, stack them and staple them in the middle to reproduce the original manual. I realize that this might not be clear, so here are a couple of examples.

The cover (which I suggest you print on card stock, is made up of the sheet showing the front and back of the cover and the sheet showing the inside front and inside back of the cover. The inside front talks about the importance of good oil and needles and the inside back is a needle and thread chart.  Print those two sheets as a 2 sided document and you should get a perfect cover that you can trim and fold.

The first two pages of the manual do not have page numbers. So lets use page 3 as the example.

Page 3 is printed on one sheet of paper with Page 26. On the other side of that sheet is Page 4 and Page 25. Print the sheets with those pages as a two sided document.

I scanned the pages in the correct order so they could be printed as 2-sided sheets to make the booklet. To make things easier, here are the 2 pages that belong on each side of each 2-sided sheet.

Side 1                                                         Side 2

28, 1 (no number, title page)                    2  (no number), 27

26, 3                                                             4, 25

24, 5                                                             6, 23

22 (blank), 7                                               8, 21 (no number, section title page)

20 (blank), 9                                               10, 19

18, 11                                                          12, 17

16, 13                                                          14, 15 (these two pages are the center of the booklet)

 

regards,

Rob

 

Edited February 29, 2020 by Snakeoil

[mikesc]

Rob..you may already have this one..and it isn't for the 29K70, but for the 29K71,72 and 73..But I found it whilst looking through my "archives" for a some 29K manuals that I posted in another thread earlier today.Singer 29K71, 29K72, 29K73.pdf

I'm like yourself and Jimi ( who has a wonderful collection of original manuals ) , I like them in original paper..or scans of the originals..

A few of mine are in French, and Constabulary has many in German..as I think does Uwe and some others here.

When ( in a previous life ) I owned a printing works ( letterpress and litho ) I had a load of  books as large printed sheet layouts, which had small numbers and letters in the corners of some pages , so that the printer would know at the bookbinding stage which way the sheets should be folded so that when the guillotine was run on the folded stack edges the pages would be in the correct order and facing the correct way in the resulting book..Your instructions ( very similar to printers formula for book printing "the old way" ) took me back nearly 50 years there :)  

[Snakeoil]

Yes Mike, I have that manual. But I'm going to compare your copy to mine to see if yours has anything that might be missing in mine.

 

On ‎2‎/‎28‎/‎2020 at 6:26 PM, jimi said:

Cheers Rob, That is a nice little book 

Con Gusto, Jimi.

regards,

Rob