Quick! What's the difference between 15/115 again?
#12
#13
The 115 bobbin case shares with a 20U industrial machine. The bobbin cases are trivial to find.
Try these links:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...e-t216990.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...n-t240338.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...l-t235346.html
My 115 is a "Wings", and I've used it for a couple of small projects but haven't bonded with it. I can't say why though.
Try these links:
http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...e-t216990.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...n-t240338.html
http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...l-t235346.html
My 115 is a "Wings", and I've used it for a couple of small projects but haven't bonded with it. I can't say why though.
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I need to get my 1918 Singer 115 fired up one of these days. It’s not serviced and still electric, but I’ll probably convert it to treadle or hand crank. I would imagine that it was a treadle-powered machine when it was new, so I’ll restore it to its original configuration.
I’ve hung onto it because it’s an oddball in that it’s got a combination of two different decal sets on it, probably as a result of its electrification sometime in the 1940s. It has Paper Clip decals on the arm and bed center, and Knots & Rectangles around the bed border.
CD in Oklahoma
I’ve hung onto it because it’s an oddball in that it’s got a combination of two different decal sets on it, probably as a result of its electrification sometime in the 1940s. It has Paper Clip decals on the arm and bed center, and Knots & Rectangles around the bed border.
CD in Oklahoma
#18
It has a 1942 penny in the needle bar area. It was there when I got the machine and I have left it. I’ve heard that there was a practice of putting a new penny in the Singer machines by repair shops that electrified old machines, to indicate what year the machine was electrified, but I don’t know if there is any truth to that. I don’t see why knowing the year of electrification would be all that important to anyone, and having a penny in there behind the face plate could foul up the works, so I imagine that was just a rumor. Although, there is enough room for the penny to rest in there without touching any of the working parts, so who knows?
I think it’s more likely that since the slot for the take-up lever looks so much like a coin slot, some poor child probably lost their penny when Mom wasn’t looking.
CD in Oklahoma
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