Originally Posted by purplefiend
Vintagemotif,
My oldest Singer treadle is very quiet and smooth. The Elgin treadle irons were made by Free and have ball bearings in them, I've heard that's why its so smooth and quiet. If you take the Singer irons apart, clean and oil them they will get
quieter. Sharon
On those Elgin's.... what type of machine heads go into those ball bearing iron cabinets? Or perhaps the better question is, what machines will fit into the cabinet? Will full sized Singers (for example) fit the Elgin cabinets? I'm wondering if the Elgin's had VS machines in them, if the noise from the VS was just as loud as say a quieter Singer top load round bobbin, in a Singer (non ball bearing) cabinet. What's the quietest, smoothest combo?
Thoughs?