Originally Posted by PJisChaos
Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Cute! That would look very nice in a sewing room with a couple of vintage machines on bookcase as well as a couple of treadles. Thanks for posting. I'm always looking for ideas and love to see what others have done.
Interesting substitute for the treadle belt. I read somewhere of a person that uses aquarium hose for their treadle belts.
So, how well does it work?
Overall, the hose works very well. There are a few "operator errors" that do cause it to slip out of the handwheel groove(going backwards seems to be a no-no) but, I ain't complaining as it only cost me just over $2 for this fix. Just slip it back in and off I go, hopefully forward. :wink:
I have a lot of hose like this maybe I should give it a try. Although my singer store has plenty of leather belts for 5 Bucks. glenn