Originally Posted by Lostn51
Originally Posted by kwendt
The idea with those older Singer pedals was that the solid button was to rest your foot on, then you'd tip your foot sideways to run the machine... then tip back off of it when not running, in between seams, etc.
Talking about that pedal, I have some Singer interoffice memos talking about that pedal. The engineers were talking about you put your whole foot on the pedal and use your heel to operate the machine. It was designed to keep your foot from getting fatigued from long periods of use. That is why the foot control is so big.
Some useless Singer trivia for you!
Billy
Yes, that's it. There's a good write up of that on the yahoo vintage Singer site. What's interesting to me is that they didn't come up with that design until the bakelite model pedels. The other tin? ones, are still like a normal old lever switch. At first, i thought that those lever switches were supposed to be used in conjunction with knee press actuators installed into cabinets. But now I've seen so many of them on electric portable machines... that cannot be. The bakelite pedels are interesting.
Billy... do you know how to test a plastic/composite surface to find out if it's really Bakelite? (I bet you do...). If not, and you think it's worth it... I can post that.