29 base wooden drawer

[billcurley]

Does anyone here have or can you provide some photos and hopefully dimensions of an original drawer for a 29 treadle base.  I recently bought a 29K 172  and the base is missing the wooden drawer as I'm sure most of them are.  This is a much older base than the machine and someone at some point in time created a plate to adapt it for the machine that I bought it with.  I haven't tried putting the head back on but I am slightly concerned about belt length since the machine is 1/4" higher than it would have originally have been.  I would like to try to rebuild a drawer that is as close to the original as possible.  Spent the last week media blasting priming and painting the iron, just got it all put back together and would like to have a place to store bobbins and the threading needle.

[MarlinDave]

Can find the orphan drawers sometimes in antique shops. 

[jrdunn]

Bill,

Mine's MIA as well.  I'd like to build one too.

Jim

[Garyak]

Not the one you want, but the drawer that came on my machine was useless. Thrift store and 10$ later, looks like it was planned. There were several different treadles in one shop.just gotta deal with the grumpy fella that owns it.

[nylonRigging]

Are you talking about the small / simple, single wooden drawer ?

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[kgg]

On 11/22/2021 at 11:15 PM, billcurley said:

Does anyone here have or can you provide some photos and hopefully dimensions of an original drawer for a 29 treadle base. 

This is the small plain face drawer in my 1949 Singer 29k 71 case iron base. The tracks that are attached to the base for the drawer I painted black to match the rest of the base.

Dimensions of the drawer:

A) The length 

i) front to back, outside to outside, is: 205.34mm

ii) inside length is 177.33 mm

iii) thickness of back is: 8.13mm

iv) thickness of front is: 19.88mm

The width,

i) side to side, outside dimension is: 97.03mm

ii) side to side, inside dimension is: 80.09mm

iii) thickness of sides are: 8.47mm

C) The height,

i) front and sides are: 70.43mm

ii) back of drawer is: 56.87mm

D) The bottom

i) bottom of the drawer is 177.33mm x 84.33mm x 2.23mm thick and slides into a track cut in the sides

E) The track

i) Track for sliding in and out of drawer are 7.92mm wide,  3.45mm deep and are down 9.2mm from the top of the sides

kgg

 

[Wizcrafts]

Metric measurements in answer to a question asked by an American member using the US inches system are not useful in this case.

[kgg]

I figured the OP was going to replicate the drawer and to get a more accurate measurements I would provide them in mm. To convert metric into imperial just divide my measurements by 25.4.

kgg

[jrdunn]

I guess we'll just have to dig out our "mm stick".

[Constabulary]

long arm machines had longer drawers than the short arm machines IIRC.