Originally Posted by
jlhmnj
Hi Miriam,
Usually the marking on an industrial needle shaft are not very helpful. Industrial Singer needles are usually marked "Simanco" and needle size, not Class. You'd need an owners manual or good reference material to figure out which class of needle is needed.
The 16-34 and 16-47 are very old models. Both use 16x1 (cloth) or 16x2 (leather) round shank needles. You can probably get away with DBX1 or even 15x1 flat shank.
Jon
Jon, I was hoping you would come along. That machine was well used at one time in a book rebindary..the new owner of the company wanted a long arm so I picked it up. I've been living with my 90 year old parents so haven't had much chance to mess with that machine. I do know it sews nice and once I cleaned it up it has a good feel. I just wasn't over there long enough to do everything. I have some projects for it some day. I should have needles that fit. It looks like a 22 on there now.