Lift for sewing caninet
 

Do any of you know where I could purchase a lift for a pretty heavy machine? I want to convert a desk or table into a sewing machine cabinet.

http://www.rockler.com/sewing-machine-lift-mechanism

Haven't tried it, but have it bookmarked in case DH ever gets around to it.

Wow, that's expensive! Their website quote to me (Canadian $) was $243! Yousers! But I suppose the mechanism has to be sturdy - our machines are quite heavy.

Lee Valley carries one too. It's a Canadian company.
http://www.leevalley.com/en/wood/pag...t=3,48759&ap=1

looks like it will support a heavier machine than the rockler model.

You can also look for appliance cabinet lifts, but I suspect the price will be comparable.

The Rockler one is a really nice lift. My husband used it for the cabinet he built for me. I suspect the Lee Valley one is similar if not the same one since both are German-made and look very similar in the photos.

Michelle

Did you notice the second picture? They installed the black singer backwards in the cabinet. :D

No they didn't, they somehow put in a transposed pic of a machine.

Cari

http://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_mach...g-machine.html

Christine, good pickup about the Singer. I was telling my husband and showed him the picture and he said maybe they made a left handed Singer since the word, Singer, reads correctly. Well, I goggled and guess what. They did make some. Always learning something.

My husband is making a cabinet for my new Bernina 880 that weighs 37 pounds. He spent a week tracking down a place that sold lifts for the heavier machines.

He purchased a lift to accommodate up to 75 pounds from Sewingmachineoutlet.com. It's advertised at $550 + $50 for auto stop, but the actual purchase price was $539 with shipping.

The lift was shipped from Fashion Cabinets in Iowa.

My lqs warned that a lesser lift would not hold up with a heavy machine and the machine would eventually start to sink into the cabinet. The lift in my older cabinet was around $250-$300 and it was advised against putting it in the new cabinet due to machine weight.

Hope this helps you.

Mine is a Horn lift made for heavy machines. It looks like the one from Rockler.

I have the Rockler lift that Feathers N Fur listed the link for. My machine is a Brother Quattro. It handles it easily going down and is just a little slow going up. I'd say I'm pushing the weight capacity of it. Also thought I'd mention...... Don't center the hole in your desk top with the center of your kneehole space. Offset it enough to the right that you are sitting directly in front of the needle.