Ok, dear QB members, that 'beautiful' lavendar Necchi machine is mine. I could not get it to free up and did not have the knowledge to remove the top gears and look further into the machine. I took it to Grant at Sew Restore and he has posted his results. He put alot of work into this and has it up and runing for me.

I have no idea what you are talking about 'making a part'. can you elaborate on this. is this going to be cost effective to make per part (I have 3 with cracks in them). would this be something that once made, other parts can be made like them? would this benefit the Necchi world of vintage machines? I hear of not buying a Necchi Lola , I think, due to cracking in the cam shaft rendering the machine non-functioning. why has someone not cast one of these parts for the Necchi. this would save alot of machines. or is this not cost effective.

Karen

Hi Karen. Thank you for the kind words. :) I have some machinist friends that might be able to machine a part out of metal that duplicates the original plastic part, but that would be expensive to do, but it would last forever. It would then have to be welded onto the original metal part of it.
The other method is having a 3-D printer make a plastic copy. This will probably be common in the near future to make parts like this or cam stacks and other obsolete parts (I can't wait). One more method is making a cast of the part out of metal kind of how you would cast a statue. All options are expensive and time consuming at this time. The 3-D printer, once a program is made can make an endless amount of identical parts. The other methods would be more of a "one off" deal.
~G~

Does anyone know if Bergmann was a manufacturer or just a retailer? Pictures of the machine will go a long way toward getting the help you need for a shuttle. There may be a Boye shuttle that will fit too.
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Stephanie,

I would love to come to Mena, not just because of the Treadle On, but because I was born and raised in Arkansas. I love the area around Mena, too, but I'm not in for traveling for a while!

Jeanette

I came across this today when cleaning a Singer 15-91. It must have been etched into the part at the factory because the stamping on it was light. Interesting. Has anyone else seen this before?
~G~

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Hi,

I snipped a conversation from the Needlebar website regarding Bergmann:

"Bergmann & Hüttemeier were in (Kjobehavn) Copenhagen, Denmark. It looks like they were more involved in distribution and final assembly. So the machine was most likely made by some other company. Though Wilhelm states they had a patent in 1872 for a glove SM. So it's hard to say what they manufactured. "

Jon

That's pretty cool! I just took apart my 15 and I'm pretty sure mine wasn't hand-etched. Seems insane to think there was that level of detail going on during the building and assembling of these machines that someone would notice the light stamping and bother to hand-etch it. I doubt you'd see something like that in a modern machine.

I think this is a testament to the quality of these older machines. It was made in 1956 when pride and quality still mattered, and planned obsolescence was not heard of yet. Something else that is amazing to me is, that Singer stamped every part (within reason) with the part number on it and where it was made.
Funny side note, they actually misspelled Simanco. They spelled it Sinanco.:)
~G~

Has anyone here ever heard of a Stylemaster Precison Deluxe sewing machine? I've looked everywhere online & found nothing. Maybe another company made them?

Welcome! Your machine is a Japanese made Singer 15 copy. They were made by the millions after WWII up into the 50s. The model is still being made in India and China though the quality isn't as good as the older Japanese ones. Anyone who wanted to place a minimum order could get whatever name they wanted put on the machines.
Search for "15 Clone" here for more info.
Rodney