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where have all the good motors gone?
I have a sad story.
Someone (no names) accidently dropped the motor from my FW 221. He was (very kindly) working on it for me, and when it fell to the concrete floor it landed on the brush holder? (not sure that's the correct name of it) and it broke off. He is going to try to fix it. Meanwhile, I am searching for a new one. A Featherweight motor. I have been to every site listed on the vintage pages here, and all the pages that came up when I tried the search box. I was hoping to find an original Singer motor, but so far they have all been Singer compatible. Like Alphasew, for instance. So now, I am hoping someone here can help me with any other resources. So far, I've tried: Sew Classic Nova Montgomery The Quilt Gal Featherweight Shop NGOSew Sewingpartsonline The Singer Featherweight Shop Singer Featherweight UK EBay Craigslist Singersewingmachinereplacements Singer-Featherweight.com ShopGoodwill SewVacDirect Desk Dave's Featherweight Factory even Amazon several of these had non Singer motors available... but no Singer ones. Any other ideas would sure be appreciated! Fingers crossed.... edit: I did find one at Desk Dave's. Hope it works. |
Originally Posted by mindless
(Post 8313846)
I have a sad story.
Someone (no names) accidently dropped the motor from my FW 221. He was (very kindly) working on it for me, and when it fell to the concrete floor it landed on the brush holder? (not sure that's the correct name of it) and it broke off. He is going to try to fix it. Meanwhile, I am searching for a new one. A Featherweight motor. I have been to every site listed on the vintage pages here, and all the pages that came up when I tried the search box. I was hoping to find an original Singer motor, but so far they have all been Singer compatible. Like Alphasew, for instance. So now, I am hoping someone here can help me with any other resources. So far, I've tried: Sew Classic Nova Montgomery The Quilt Gal Featherweight Shop NGOSew Sewingpartsonline The Singer Featherweight Shop Singer Featherweight UK EBay Craigslist Singersewingmachinereplacements Singer-Featherweight.com ShopGoodwill SewVacDirect Desk Dave's Featherweight Factory even Amazon several of these had non Singer motors available... but no Singer ones. Any other ideas would sure be appreciated! Fingers crossed.... edit: I did find one at Desk Dave's. Hope it works. |
221parts.com has always gave me excellent service when ordering parts for my Featherweight.
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Wow. Thanks for all the help! You are all amazing, and I really appreciate you taking the time to respond. :)
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Ebay usually has the caps and brushes and if you watch long enough you
can find a motor. The Alphasew motor is a good motor and if you replace the Alphasew info band around the motor with the one from your singer motor no one can tell you have the Alphasew motor. |
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