You also need to have the bolt hole under the handwheel to mount a hand crank, it also helps to have a spoked handwheel.
Sharon W.
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?