Karen's Home for Wayward Kenmores
#11
Okay, found a picture that might give you an idea on the "head" part of brown Kenmore. You can see the 2 screws that I had to remove to take the entire part off.
Labeled as follows:
1. There is a "peg" from the tension dial that rolls along a flat spring (2) attached to the tensioner. This puts more or less pressure on the spring, in turn putting more or less tension on the disks in the tensioner. Yours probably works a little differently because it's a lever. I haven't pulled apart one like that before.
2. This is the flat spring attached to the tensioner. It kind of fits through a hole up into the machine.
3. Here you can see the back of the tensioner from the inside of the machine "head."
[ATTACH=CONFIG]294583[/ATTACH]
Labeled as follows:
1. There is a "peg" from the tension dial that rolls along a flat spring (2) attached to the tensioner. This puts more or less pressure on the spring, in turn putting more or less tension on the disks in the tensioner. Yours probably works a little differently because it's a lever. I haven't pulled apart one like that before.
2. This is the flat spring attached to the tensioner. It kind of fits through a hole up into the machine.
3. Here you can see the back of the tensioner from the inside of the machine "head."
[ATTACH=CONFIG]294583[/ATTACH]
#12
Tomorrow's project will be to free up the drive shaft, if I can. But I just realized that it has no foot. It's top-clamping, too. I already checked, and the feet from the Kenmore that started this don't fit-the clamp won't fit around the bar. Will White rotary feet fit, do you know?
#13
My friend has the manual and she will bring it to me to copy for you. Just pm me with your email address.
I will get it to you the first of the week when she comes to sew.
#14
Tomorrow's project will be to free up the drive shaft, if I can. But I just realized that it has no foot. It's top-clamping, too. I already checked, and the feet from the Kenmore that started this don't fit-the clamp won't fit around the bar. Will White rotary feet fit, do you know?
#15
....Also a 7057a (Dressmaker Stretch Stitch), which has a mostly metal body-the front and top are plastic. It's printed "Made in Poland" on the back of the pillar. It's grubby, but runs. This one I'll clean up and keep until I run into someone who says, "I'd like to learn how to sew, but I don't have a sewing machine."
JC Penney marketed a version of the Polish 7057 back in the 1980s. My wife has one. It was her only machine between 1990 and 2006, and sewed everything around the house including the embroidered patches on our leather motorcycle vests. The fiber hook gears finally gave out in the Fall of 2006, and I replaced them with Singer gears for a Stylist Model 538. It’s still her “go to” machine when she needs a free arm, but she got a Singer 401A in the Spring of 2006, so the 7057 became “semi retired” at that time.
The 7057 is very similar to the Singer Stylist 538 that I have used almost daily at the shop since 2006 for mending jeans. I replaced a broken fiber feed gear in the 538 in 2010, but other than that, it’s been a good little workhorse for me. If you need parts for your 7057, check to see if Singer Stylist parts will fit.
CD in Oklahoma
#16
I'll keep an eye out for a set of Greist attachments, then. I dug around in my boney pile and found a partial tin of White top-clamp attachments, and found a straight stitch foot that fits, so there's that at least. Some of the others might fit too, if the bar were cleaner. I don't care so much about things like the rufflers and tuckers (although I have some of each in top clamp) but I'd really like to find my favorite hemmer to fit! Besides the regular foot, that's the single most useful foot in this house.
#17
Question: What/where is the "fiber feed gear"? That's not a term I'm familiar with.
#18
CD in Oklahoma
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