Originally Posted by kwendt
Okay... so since I'm now interested in old Singers....
What are the best old Singers out there? When I'm at a garage sale, or a junk shop, etc... .what do I look for? (I KNOW what a FW looks like, lol, and that it's tiny compared to the 301? that also had a deck extension...). But what about the others? What are the better machines to actually use in quilting?
And in treadles, I'll only be able to afford to 'find' one... (because of space). So what do I look for? White? Singer? Someother? What 'tests' can I do to see if it's working, or at least fixable?
If you get a Singer treadle then you only need one treadle for the Singer machines. The machine heads can be changed. That is what some people have done. They display their machines not in use on shelves while rotating through their collection. OR you can modify the cabinet top to hold any machine head (which is what Billy has done, he has a picture posted on the vintage thread).
Here is a list of cabinets that Singer made :
http://www.ismacs.net/singer_sewing_...nets.html#1591