I believe, the armature & field both would have to be changed in the motor. It is probably best to just find a (nice) complete motor on Ebay and swap it out. If you know someone that has Featherweight parts laying around, maybe you could talk them out of some parts that you would need if you want to do it yourself. Finding an armature & field might be tough since that is what fails on featherweights.
Originally Posted by
Belfrybat
My new housemate arrived today all the way from Canada. I'd forgotten how tiny Featherweights are! She's in perfect condition considering she was "born" in 1948 -- the same year I was born. She was manufactured in Scotland so I knew she was wired as 220v and I would need a stepup transformer to run her.
However, the motor on her is listed as 110/120v made in Elizabethport NJ. I contacted the E-Bay seller and he wrote that the motor had been rewired as a 220v before he aquired her.
Now, finally my question. Does anyone know if the motor can be put back to a 110v, and what the process would be? I called the Singer repair shop and he offered to sell me a motor for $120.00 (!), but had no idea how to re-wire one back to 110v.
The transformer weighs about half of what the machine weighs and is about a 6-7" cube, so it would be really nice to have a 110v motor so I don't have to lug around the transformer.