Needles for a singer 138w101

[Chrishocher]

Hello,  I am having trouble finding needles for my Singer 138w101 which should use 135x17 needles up to a size 22. My problem is that the machine is timed to a singer 110x18 or 18 needle.  Is this a huge job to retime the machine to the proper needles?

[Northmount]

17 hours ago, Chrishocher said:

Hello,  I am having trouble finding needles for my Singer 138w101 which should use 135x17 needles up to a size 22. My problem is that the machine is timed to a singer 110x18 or 18 needle.  Is this a huge job to retime the machine to the proper needles?

Moved your post to leather sewing machines.  This is where the machine guys hang out and you should get some answers here soon.

[Constabulary]

18 hours ago, Chrishocher said:

Is this a huge job to retime the machine to the proper needles?

#18 and #22 are both 135x17, right? So a different needle size usually does not require retiming. Needle hole in the feed dog have to be large enough for the #22 needle and make sure the hook tip is not touching the needle if it does well then the needle is too big for the machine cause you cannot move the hook further to the right AFAIK.

EDIT:

just realized its a double needle machine - not sure if you can move the posts sideways a little bit when the hook is touching the needle.

EDIT II:

you can - I just checked the manual :

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/364365/Singer-138w102.html?page=11#manual

 

Edited February 13, 2022 by Constabulary

[kgg]

19 hours ago, Chrishocher said:

I am having trouble finding needles for my Singer 138w101 which should use 135x17 needles up to a size 22.

From the information I have seen on your machine it uses 135 x 7 in sizes from #9 to #24 as noted on page 6 of the Singer manual  not 135 x 17.  So if you want to use 135 x 17 needles you may very well have to retime your machine.

kgg

 

[Chrishocher]

On 2/13/2022 at 1:29 PM, kgg said:

From the information I have seen on your machine it uses 135 x 7 in sizes from #9 to #24 as noted on page 6 of the Singer manual  not 135 x 17.  So if you want to use 135 x 17 needles you may very well have to retime your machine.

kgg

 

 

On 2/13/2022 at 12:08 PM, Constabulary said:

#18 and #22 are both 135x17, right? So a different needle size usually does not require retiming. Needle hole in the feed dog have to be large enough for the #22 needle and make sure the hook tip is not touching the needle if it does well then the needle is too big for the machine cause you cannot move the hook further to the right AFAIK.

EDIT:

just realized its a double needle machine - not sure if you can move the posts sideways a little bit when the hook is touching the needle.

EDIT II:

you can - I just checked the manual :

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/364365/Singer-138w102.html?page=11#manual

 

 

On 2/12/2022 at 5:25 PM, Chrishocher said:

Hello,  I am having trouble finding needles for my Singer 138w101 which should use 135x17 needles up to a size 22. My problem is that the machine is timed to a singer 110x18 or 18 needle.  Is this a huge job to retime the machine to the proper needles?

Thank you for the advice everyone.  I did end up retiming the machine to accomodate the proper size needles