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Please include a photo of the hand wheel (looking straight on). I'm guessing that there is a stop motion clutch knob that turns opposite the hand wheel. Sometimes if the machine needs cleaned and oiled properly. I would suggest that you don't mess with the thread take up lever when winding the bobbin, just do as Peckish said "I had a machine where the handwheel did not disengage when winding the bobbin - I just made sure the needle was unthreaded when I wound new bobbins." You could even remove the needle. This is a page is more about Singer machines and a couple different washers https://vssmb.blogspot.com/2012/06/h...om-moving.html and I think yours may be more like the one seen at http://vssmb.blogspot.com/2012/06/ho...bbed-stop.html