auntpiggylpn

Actually, I have a screw that is lost. Prior to moving in January, I took my old green Kenmore in to my OSMG to have her cleaned. I took her out of her table and put the screws that hold her in to the table in the screw holes on the machine for safe keeping. Fast forward 7 months later I am getting around to putting her back into the table. However one of the screws has become MIA. I don't know any OSMG in my area yet. Where do I get another screw like this or will any screw work? Also, because of the time lapse of when I removed her from the table and now, are these 2 screws the only thing that holds her in the table???

tessagin

Home depot, Lowe's any other home and garden places. Maybe local hardware store?

mim

take it to your LOCAL -- not big box store -- they have drawers and drawers of screws of all sorts. The people there know what they are talking about. Not to complain about the big box stores, but the people they hire aren't very kanowledgeable and the store doesn't cater to small projects. I do shop at big box stores but I make sure that my locally owned store stays in business.

Mim

amcatanzaro

It always amazes me too, but yes, just those two screws.

I have two extra from a 158 series machine that was in a cabinet. They look like they might have 1-2 extra threads compared to yours. They are yours if you want them.

auntpiggylpn

Oh Thank You! Sending you a pm.

SteveH

Just in case some folks are not aware of this.... screws come Imperial and Metric, in a MULTITUDE of diameters, TPI (Threads per inch), as well as lengths. if you do not get a screw of the right diameter and TPI it will either not fit or will damage the threads in the hole.

My Collection of Victorian machines is the worst in this regard because most were made before the SAE and Metric standards were set, so they can be whatever the factory decided to make for that part... I have had to take careful measurements and manually reproduce three different screws so far..

auntpiggylpn

My father was a mechanic for many, many years and I learned that from him. I wasn't sure if there was a special screw that I needed. I lost the screw on my Janome that held the foot on. I absolutely detested the dealer that I bought my machine from and spent an entire Saturday morning driving around to lots of hardware stores, box stores and vac & sewing shops trying to keep from having to go to the dealer. In the end, I did have to go to the dealer and they sold me a used one for $0.99. Anastasia is helping me out!!!

Rodney

The grub screws holding my daughter's Ward's machine to the hinges were an odd size. I ended up re-drilling and tapping the hole to an easily available size instead of trying to find another screw like it.

Many once common sizes are becoming hard to find.
Rodney

Stitchit123

Go to Craig's list - sewing machines and you will find every part for every machine you can think of. I had to have the hinge/pin for a Singer treadle cabinet- the set cost me $5 plus $1.50 S/H. Just type in your machine data to save lots of time- there are just to many machines and you could get side tracked and forget why you went on there to begin with : )

oldtnquiltinglady

For real, stitchit123. No telling how many times I have done this. I usually wind up reading the lost and found kitties and get all stressed out and shut the computer down. I was on Google this morning trying to find what year my new (to me) Kenmore is, and finally gave up and came to read the postings on this board for today, the GD came over to clean for me, so there went my concentration on finding how old my Kenmore is. BTW, in the event anyone can check for me, 158 13450.