New belt is on.
Old vs new belt:
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New belt is: .203" to .212", kind of oval instead of round.
Old belt is: .161" to .166", a bit more round but smaller.
Old belt is also scaly kind of like a fish.
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Making new staple hole with a straight burr in my Dremel tool.
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New belt on, back in business. I think I got it a bit loose, so I'll have to tighten it up soon. No big deal.
Here's a tip.
If your treadle is one of those W&Ws or Singer 9W-7s, or maybe a White made machine that rotate clockwise, in other words the hand wheel rotates away from you, opposite the normal Singer, and you have to remove the belt to raise and lower the head, and it has a belt derailleur lever or the lip on the big wheel to spin the belt onto it, it will rotate counter clockwise to do it.
Doing this will mess up your threading and can cause thread jams or broken thread as the belt will be turning the machine backwards during the belting and de-belting process.
So when spinning the belt on or off, just release the stop motion knob and the machine won't rotate, just the hand wheel or the pulley, as in the case of the W&W or Singer 9W-7s.
Joe