yobrosew

I was excited to find this machine and was ready to bid and finally get my converted treadle. But, then I noticed the bed extended out to far for treadle belt. It is so clean, almost virginal and just have to share. http://www.ebay.com/itm/151388461436...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Isn't it just gorgeous!

Rodney

It looks like a 3/4 size machine to me. It is pretty.
Rodney

miriam

Rodney, I doubt if that is a 3/4 size machine. BUT some of those old Kenmore machines are so cool it isn't funny. I had one I totally regret selling. The stitches on it were so different from anything else I've ever seen. That one might treadle but it almost looks like the end goes out too far for a belt to pass. I don't think that is quite what I had though. Mine would stitch and inch, do a little decoration then stitch another inch. I should have kept it - it would have been great for some grid quilting. The one I had was so locked up when I got it - I thought it would never sew. It took me a long time to figure it all out. The controls were nothing like anything I had seen or have seen since.

Rodney

The reason I was thinking 3/4 size is the size of the harp. The foot control nearly fills it. On my Singer 66 I just picked up today there's a good 3" of extra room past the foot controller when I put it there. There's around an inch or just a bit more on the Kenmore.
Rodney

miriam

I have some full size old Brother machines with small harps like that - the base of the machine is full size though. It would be neat to know what size that base is though.

Rodney

I found a Youtube video of a guy running one and it did look full size there. It wouldn't be the first time I've been mistaken. It could be a tiny harp on a full size machine. I don't think a large harp was a priority for most home sewers back then.
Rodney

mlmack

Most of the Kenmore machines have square corners on the beds, so they wouldn't fit in most cabinets without further modification to the cabinet. Doesn't look like that would be easily converted to a treadle cabinet.

The foot pedal filling up the harp space is mostly due to an optical illusion brought about by the angle of the photos.

Macybaby

The base IS full size, but the harp area is narrow. this is the same way the White 77 and Domestic 153 are. They also put a big nose cone on this one (to hide the light), but the distance from needle bar to flywheel is shorter than a standard machine. On the bigger machines, the base is the same but the flywheel sticks out past the base end. and then the cover base usually has some sort of storage on the end to make up for the difference. On a lot of "new" machines, the base has all the electronics on it, so it takes up way more room. Would be interesting to take some measures of the needle to flywheel, as even though they seem "small" its due to the larger pillar and not shorter machine.

KenmoreRulesAll

This is a Model 48. I have one:

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It's a full-size machine as far as I can tell. It's probably one of my strongest machines, reminding of the Pfaff 130. (It's heavy, too.) 1.2 amps. Running multiple layers of a 14 oz. denim through it -- like butter. It takes the 'B' cams which are sometimes hard to find.

Rodney

That's a beauty. It looks like it's never been used. Love the covering on the case.
Rodney