crystal lee

I have a vintage 128 with a knee bar. The cord is in very poor condition, does anyone know where I could get a replacement cord?

momto5

Fred Sanford on this Board, or [email protected] may be able to help you.

miriam

Does it have a spoked hand wheel? If so you might put a hand crank on it.

Cogito

That would be my first choice! I have a 128 I want to hand crank....but it seems impossible to find a vintage crank and I hear nothing but negatives about the ones coming from China...I am way too OCD to put up with those, ugh.
Crystal I think you could also easily buy the wiring, etc at your local big box hardware and follow Rain's tutorial on rewiring. You can google it....

J Miller

Crystal,

Rewiring a sewing machine is relatively easy. I've done a bunch of them. You can generally get the cord you need at most hardware, lighting or electrical supply stores.
Sew-Classic { http://www.shop.sew-classic.com/ } sells it. I'll bet your machine should use the 18-2 SPT-2 cord.
Also there are some companies that specialize in reproduction fabric covered cord. You can find that at
Sundial Wiring { http://www.sundialwire.com/sundialwi...veredwire.aspx }.

Basically you just carefully remove the old wire, cut the new wire to length and put it in exactly as the old wire came out.

Depending on how your machine is wired, Sew-Classic may have a replacement cord set for it.


I don't know why the fascination some have with converting every machine they see to hand crank. It's OK I guess, but it sure don't beat a good electric motor.

Joe

J Miller

Cogito,

I picked up a 127 a couple years ago with a Chinese repro HC on it. I put the HC on my 99K, Rusty. It needed cleaned internally and greased. Once that was done it worked just fine. And as I've used it it has smoothed out significantly.
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Considering how rarium and expensive the original vintage HCs are, the Chinese ones do make sense.

Joe

SteveH

With all due love and respect, I'm one of those folks, and I feel that a handcrank beats a motor machine any day!

Electric power is just a fad, it'll never catch on....

J Miller

Yeah I know. They said that about that new white smokeless powder too.


Joe

SteveH

Exactly!! Now you get it.. hehe

Cogito

Thanks Joe! I wasn't aware of the repro cording. I will have to look at that. And hahaha! You gave me a good laugh. I can see your point and I completely agree....motorized machines certainly can't be beat for their speed and ease. You might not have seen an earlier post of mine.....I have 4 Singer 128's....two Godzilla and two La Vencedora. I now have 5 treadle, innumerable motorized and not one hand crank! So.....I just want one. Lol....Pretty please?