Originally Posted by
Mrs. SewNSew
I'm guessing because the table can be used for other machines only if you leave those front brackets in. I have a table with a 401 in it and have noticed it has the front brackets. Once you remove them, you have no front supports. Many people especially those who collect prefer to have the 301 sit solo and not fill the house up with yet another table, so that makes the cradle available to sell.
OK, so I can't find my brackets. Weird because they should be with the cradle.
Oh well.
The cabinet that I had only had 2 little pieces of metal, not a whole front piece. All I would do to replicate this if I put the machine back into another cabinet that didn't have them is notch the spot that needed to be notched so everything would sit where it needed to be, bend a piece of "flat stock" - or use an angle bracket if one fit there - then drill a hole for the pin in the cradle and a hole for the screw to hold the bracket on. As Singer has shown us several times, there's more than one solution to any problem.
