Originally Posted by
leonf
Last night I was messing with my Kenmore. Terrible wiring so I just pulled off the motor and turned it by hand. Hey, that boss looks familiar. I grabbed a handcrank and it would hold on, just a bit wobbly. OK but would it work? No. The boss was farther back than on a Singer. The crank did not line up to the center of the clutch release knob and only worked well for about 80 degrees. Oh well, maybe someone else won't try this endeavor now. And now the machine is ready once I get power to it.
We need a "Universal Hand Power" unit as seen on the bottom left of page 11 of
http://digital.hagley.org/islandora/...m/PDF/download
I have only seen the pictures of these -- sure wish I could figure out how to make one. I've got a few machines that could use something like that. There is another one made for drop-head machines but I can't find the link to that one.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.