wilburness

I bought a Singer 237 for the cabinet. The more I looked at the sewing machine, the more I liked it. So today I cleaned and oiled it and put it thru its paces. adjusted the tension. and WAALAA, it sews a grwat stitch. BUTTT the feed dog is rubbing / hitting the plate and making noise.

I do not see any kind of adjustment I can make to move these feed dogs over (right) a hair. Any suggestions???

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Thank you. Karen

cmrenno

I love my 237. It looks to me like the feed dogs are a little out of alignment. May you could coax them back in place with a flat blade screw driver.
It's one tough machine. I hope this works for you.
Colleen

Cari-in-Oly

You might try loosening the screws to the needle plate and carefully tightening them again(but don't over-tighten). Sometimes that will move the needle plate just a hair.

Cari

barny

Do you have the correct needle plate in? Maybe someone else bought a new one that doesn't fit just right. Take the screws out and see if there is any play in the needle plate. Well, Sorry. I got in right behind Cari with almost the same idea. LOL

wilburness

thank you for the ideas. I have loosened and retightened both the feed dogs and plate and they still rub. I took them both out and cleaned underneath them both. I think someone has worked on it because it has a different foot pedal than what I see in pics. the plate is Singer #352105 and the feed dog is Singer #352072. I have no schematics to check if they are the right numbers or not.

the number on the the bottom is MD004965. I could not find that number on the singer ID list. anyone know how old my machine is?

miriam

It is possible that you have replacement feed dogs that don't fit well

Rodney

Try looking at where the part that the feed dogs are attached to. Maybe there's some adjustment there? Just throwing out ideas. I would think given manufacturing tolerances never being 100% accurate that there would be room for adjustment somewhere.
Rodney

miriam

Some feed dogs have oval shape holes and you can slide them back and forth just a little. Some don't have any wiggle room at all.

wilburness

I took it apart again. no oval holes, dratz. I looked at the bottom and the bar that the feed dog is attached too. well I don't know if I did right but I loosened some bolt and forced the feed dog arm over a hair. it seemed to work. the feed dog does not rub now. this I did after I was done sewing.
thank you for your suggestions.
Karen