Would appreciate information on my Sears Minnesota Treadle Sewing Machine
 

Welcome Pamela. Yes, a picture would help. I will give instructions later. (There are probably some instructions in the links as well.) I'm going to guess that your machine is from the very early 1900s and may take "Davis Long" needles.

If you look at http://ismacs.net/sears/sears.html there were several Minnesota machine made by several different manufacturers.

A couple of threads that have some good information about Minnesota machines are https://www.quiltingboard.com/vintag...e-t276831.html and https://www.quiltingboard.com/vintag...e-t312134.html Does yours look like the one at https://www.quiltingboard.com/7587130-post10.html or https://www.quiltingboard.com/vintag...w-t194963.html

We like pictures. In order to post pictures on Quilting Board, you will probably need to reduce or compress the picture to a file size that is smaller than 2MB. How to post images can be found at https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...020-01-17-.pdf
Don't forget to scroll over to the far right to find and click on the "Upload" button.

I have found that only the big red "Reply" button or "Quote" work to give me the paper clip icon to work for adding pictures.
https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...p-location.jpg

Some additional info regarding reducing images at post #4 and images for the scroll and upload button can be found at #5 of https://www.quiltingboard.com/main-f...d-t312607.html

Or simply - Make sure pictures are smaller than 2MB
Click on red "Reply" button
Click on the paper clip icon
Click browse - choose picture/s. (only 5 allowed per post)
Once they show up as being loaded, Scroll over to the right side and click on "Upload"
After the pictures show up as being attached, you can close that window and go back to the screen to finish posting your post.

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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I believe my machine looks like the post from Rhubarb "Need help identifying Sears Minnesota treadle sewing machine " the plates are the same except the model number. The decals are different too.
I remember why I haven't been using this machine - it's missing the tension disk and spring. The release and the bee hive spring are there.

I believe that I have figured out how to post pictures. Thank you for the instructions ”Ourworkbench”.

She definitely needs a cleaning.

I also purchased tension disk that I am hoping will fit.

D674962 was made in 1901 by Davis SMCo for the Sears catalog.


Jon

Davis model E Minnesota schematic

Jon, thank you for the date and schematic for my machine. It is amazing to me that it's 120 years old.
Thank you again
Pamela