Originally Posted by
miriam
It will be the same as any other Singer 96 type manual. Those look to me like a very simple machine and intuitive as far as threading goes. If you need to rebuild a tension it will be the same as any home sewing machine tension of it's type. The bobbin case looks the same as a Singer 306 so the bobbins will be the L type. I am going by the drawings in the parts manual I found by google searching Singer 96.
Thank you, not so much for threading and such but more for servicing. I noticed some models have "Adjuster's Manuals". I'm planning on taking it and my others apart and I noticed some of the industrial manuals mention a difference between models being ball bearings like this blurb on page 2:
http://parts.singerco.com/IPinstManuals/96-87_107.pdf
I finally found a snippet of info on this manual on pg. 14 that says models 96-40 and 96-60 are identical except my model has ball bearings at both ends of the arm shafts:
http://parts.singerco.com/IPinstManuals/96-80_100.pdf