I have my grandmothers Singer treadle and I have it working. February, we had 3 feet of smow in Wash.DC and no electric for 4 days. Pulled it out by the window and sewed up a storm. It has a beautiful stitch and can go really fast doing "chains". Now, I have re-conditioned it even more, everything is available on ebay and my book on the Featherweight works on the treadle also.