Originally Posted by
miriam
... off to ebay....
Be patient. I searched daily using two different search terms for 4 months and saw 3 of them. I bought two of those three. One was just in too bad of condition.
I fiddled a bit more with my Singer 95-40, and used a couple of pieces of 5/16 leather sewing machine belting cut to fit up in under the lip of the rim. The knob tightened down pretty good and seems fairly snug, so I’m going to give this a try.
I’ll back one bolt out and see if the other one holds everything together while I go get shorter bolts and change these long ones out. I don’t want to peal all of the skin off of my knuckles.
After I’ve tested my 95-40 for use with the Tex80 Jeans thread to make sure it likes it, I’ll probably go ahead and motorize the machine or rig it to treadle in an existing stand that I have set up already. Then I’ll remove the clamp-on spinner knob and keep it to test-sew other treadle heads that I end up with on my work bench. It should clamp onto about any treadle head balance wheel without hurting it, by using plenty of layers of vinyl for padding and shim.
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