Originally Posted by purplefiend
Billy,
A side clamp is refering to where the attachments(feet) are
screwed on. The older model 66 Singers were back clampers, meaning that the attachment screw was at the rear of the presser foot bar; the feet look very different.
Many of them were converted when the side mounted attachment screw type machines came out, so that the machines could use the newer feet.
Sharon
I knew that but I was worn out and wasnt getting the information from my head to my fingers. The 66-1 and 66- 3 were the Back Clamp models. This Idea was borrowed from the purchase of Wheeler and Wilson and the engineers at Singer axed the Back Clamp models so everything could be uniform within the parts of the machines.
With this pair of 1932 ford coupes I am building for one customer I have been cranking in the hours.
I was up for 38 hours before I went to bed this morning working on them and trying to keep up with the shop! But I will be finished before the weekend is over and then I can rest for a bit and take care of this back log of sewing machines I have over here to service.
Billy