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
Ah... but you couldn't actually do that if you were wearing heels, like so many of the fashionable females in the Singer ads! No you, switched them around until you could use the ball of your foot for depressing the switch... I remember my mom showing me this 30 "ahem" years ago on her old 401. I'm not going to say it, but.... who was it that thought of using a 'heel' to depress that small switch? hum.. lol.