Originally Posted by
nanna-up-north
Looks like you've found another jewel, Skip. How do you do it?
I keep looking but don't find such lovely machines most of the time.
I do have a question for you though. The machine I'm working on is in a cabinet and there is a crack in the wood behind the machine. It looks like someone put the machine down too hard and caused the crack. Have you ever seen this? Is there something I should do to stabilize it? I don't want it to crack any more and it's rough there.... I may need to put some filler in to make it smooth for fabric.
This machine is the 15-91 I got a few weeks ago. I cleaned out all the drawers and found 3 bobbins.... all with multiple layers of thread. When I got all the thread off, I could tell that there is a little rust. I can use metal polish to remove that, can't I?
Also, I thought I'd put new motor lube in the caps like it says in the manual. It says to clean them out. Well, I cleaned it out and pulled out the brushes on one side. It was bent so I tried to straighten in up and put it back in. I hope that's okay.
It works..... haven't threaded it or anything yet. The needle that was in it was bent so I hope when I put in a new needle everything will line up like it's supposed to.
I'm sure I'm going to have some questions...... I'm pretty novice at this still.
The only dumb question is the one you don't ask.
My sister just called from AZ. She has been working on a Singer 15 or a clone - anyway she was trying to figure out the tension. The end wouldn't stay on. I talked her through a tension rebuild: 1) Enlarge the info in the TFSR manual page 200% and read out loud as you go. 2) Clean the dried up oil off everything including the springs, the pin and the pin's hole - she was lucky - no rust. 3) Make sure everything goes back on in the right order and in the right direction. 4) Check to see how it works. After fooling with it a while, she figured out the threads on the post had been stripped. She's digging through her donor machines to find a post that might remotely work & starting all over. She should be good at it pretty soon.