Probably obvious, but how do you lower machine into treadle cabinet?
It's been many years since I last sewed on a treadle sewing machine, and that one had a lift so the mechanisms are totally different from the Singers that I got a couple of weeks ago and have refurbished and have running. It wasn't until I brought the machine into the house and attached the belt that I realized that there must be something you have to do to lower the head down when the belt is attached. Everytime I lowered it before was without the leather belt on and it was simple. Do you have to move the belt off the treadle wheel to lower the machine? There is the belt shifter lever at the front of the treadle wheel that will move the belt off, but I am hoping (probably without much chance of it being possible) that there is some way to lower a machine head into a Singer cabinet without taking the belt off track.