Grant your 66 clone has that round front plate with 2 levers that J Miller was asking about the other day.

Grant;
I have a Bel Air too. Mine was made in Occupied Japan. Was yours? I love mine. She sews through anything and is my go to machine for jeans ~ mending, hemming, jeans, purses, etc. It also sewed a new headliner for the 1992 F150 pickup.

Chris

Yes it was made in Occupied japan. It also has Los Angeles (I'm guessing the Bel Air refrence) on it. Ser# B515462. Unfortunately, it is not mine. It is in for service.
Windblown, where was he asking about it? Can you PM me with that page? Thank you.
~G~

Grant, how about resizing those pics down to 640x480 or 800x600 so my dial up can load them. The old phone lines in this area just won't let us download much of anything over 800x600, especially on pages like this with many many pics.

I have two 66 clones badged as SEWMOR 404s. I can't tell if they are like yours or not because my dial up will not fully load your ( yours aren't the only pics, so I'm not picking on just you ) pics.

Here's mine just for the heck of it:

Black SEWMOR 404:
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Silver SEWMOR 404:
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Both machines are now in their own cases.
The machines are more like the Singer 66s than the 201s, the only 201 feature is the stitch length / reverse lever.

Joe

I wondered when you were going to post them.

Glenn is here for a visit. We worked on a Simplex (a Japanese 15) made in occupied Japan. The plate that holds the bobbin in goes backwards. It took both of us holding the thing to get it back together. While it might be a pretty machine that part was a downfall. I have a really old 1890s Singer 15 with the same kind of bobbin but it was a cinch to get back together. Go figure. I'm thinking it might be something they re-engineered and improved.

Miriam,


I really should take some pics of those two machines now that they are finished and in their own cases.


Joe

Another blue 15 clone, Free Westinghouse
 

Just couldn't help it, at St Vincent de Paul trift store. Looked too nice to wait for the price to drop to $30 next Tue, or $20 the following Tue. Fortunately being vintage myself knocked it down to $32.
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I should inspect the wiring better before plugging them in, motor runs fine, light works, but the motor wiring is shot. Gotta find more blue power cords to canibalize! I think needle bar height is outta whack a little too. Doesn't want to hook the loop. Took me a bit to realize needle flat is opposite of my Singer 15's.
I did pass a Red Eye 66 head by (for $15) and a nice Spartan 192k (for $50). funny that particular St Vinnies tags sewing stuff as crafts and doesn't lower the prices the next Tuesday. Otherwise I'd have even MORE machines.

I got her to stitch by adjusting the needle bar height. Someone must have tried the infamous old, "sews through leather" trick. She ran pretty quickly, sounded almost like an industrial, perhaps due to the 1.0 amp motor. Now I need to replace the motor wiring, as it's amazing that the motor got juice at all and not my hand!:o Bared conductors, and they HAD to be touching! Scary!

So did you recover the cases? make new ones?... I'd like to see a photo