Originally Posted by
JoeJr
I believe there are Kenmore groups on facebook and maybe elsewhere. QB and VSS are as close as I come to social media so I can't help you much more than that.
I have worked on a few of these 2 pulley machines for other people, but didn't really know what it was all about. This is the first I've owned, and just used it yesterday to fix a small tear in a blanket.
JoeJr. Is right about the FB groups. One of them has gathered a great deal of information about these machines and there is a partial list of machines with dual belt systems.
I can tell you that from what I can see the 158 series machines are the ones that have this system and I know for a fact that the 158.17600 has them. I know that because I have that machine.
According to what I can glean, the 158.14 series, the 158.1600, 1700, 1800 and 1900 also has them. These would be the ones made by Jaguar/Maruzen.