playswithcolor

Hello,

A young woman came into a quilt shop I work at asking if we knew anything about her Grandmother's sewing machine. They brought it into the shop. The machine isn't one I'm familiar with but it looked very clean, had a manual, lots of feet and some bobbins in the cabinet. The wheel moved freely. They set it up while I helped a shop customer. It ran nicely. Kind of quirky in that the knee lever is the equivalent of a foot pedal.

Does anyone have one of these? The manual shows a needle but says to use their brand.

Please let me know if you are familiar with this machine and can offer any advise.

pojo

Very nice sewing machine

Gay

Looks a lot like this White

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Whi...-/253307605608

lindaschipper

I know nothing about it except that I wish it were mine!!

OurWorkbench

Nice looking machine. It is nice to have all the 'goodies' with a machine.

I don't have this machine but do have a White that is similar. It will take 15x1 needles. The hand wheel turns the opposite direction from what you are probably used to. In other words the hand wheel turns clockwise as you are looking at it from that end. The tension is a little fiddly to get threaded correctly. The bobbin threading also takes some practice to get used to.

There is a thread about this machine at Domestic Rotary 153 Somewhere in there is a QB link for threading the bobbin.

Because these machines are friction drive rather than having a belt, they frequently have a flat spot on the pulley from having set on the hand wheel for so many years. There are a lot of threads about that. My suggestion is to place something between the motor and the machine. There are a lot of suggestions as to what to use, such as wooden clothespin, wooden spoon, even a piece of folded fabric. You just want to keep the pulley from resting on the hand wheel when the machine is not in use.

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

leonf

I have the same machine, but the case is magnesium. Very light. Hers is a 3/4 sized machine.
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Found it.

leonf

Mine. On it's case base it weighs just 20 lbs.[ATTACH=CONFIG]585769[/ATTACH]

OurWorkbench

Very nice. Care to share the products used to spiff it up???

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

leonf

This one was clean when I brought it home. I am not picky about appearance. I usually just uses sewing machine oil and maybe some metal polish. Ok and steel wool if the handwheel is really rusty.

swizzy

This is the same as my sewing machine with a different style cabinet. Unfortunately attachments did not with it. We purchased it in 1962. I use Universal needles