Originally Posted by Annaquilts
Originally Posted by AbbyQuilts
I was wondering something, is it possible to turn a reg treadle head into a hand crank?
Can you buy hand cranks for them?
My niece wants to learn and someone said that hand cranks are easier for kids so I was thinking of putting a crank on my red eye.
We just turned a newer Singer 15 into a handcranck. A red eye should be possible. All you need is a spoke wheel I think and the cranck. We bought a replica from online for about $16 or so.
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:L3xdiBi5it8J:www.treadleon.net/sewingmachineshop/converting/converting.html+change+singer+into+hand+cranck&cd= 1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
In this tute they even changed the wheel to spoke first. Ours already had the spoke wheel and I would think your red eye does too. don't you love all the stuff you can find online?
Thanks would you mind Pm'ing me where you got the crank from and mine does have the spoked wheel.
I am also going to ask Billy if he can get me one as I like to support his new venture but if not then I will know where to get one
Thanks for the link!