Originally Posted by amazon
Here is my new baby, I found this jewel at a storage facillity recovery sale. The Bel-Air bantam and this fabric all for $15.00. How did I do?
The cool thing about the Bantam is they are so LIGHTWEIGHT!! You can pick that puppy up with one hand and wave it around. I have had a couple of them, mainly because I wanted a light-weight handcrank. I found out (unfortunately) that the repro HC's do not work on these. (The repro wheels don't either, but they can be ground out so they will fit.) This summer, a GF and I spent a LOT of time trying to get the repro parts to work. I finally wound up giving one of my machines to a fellow collector who's also a machinist, and he is in the process of working out an adapter for the crank. More than you wanted to know, right??
"The bobbin slide plate is missing, any info on where to get it and what type needle would be greatly appreciated."
A regular 15 x 1 needle, and I THINK a 99 slide plate will work. (Reproductions of those are available as well.)