light weight machine ??
07-03-2019, 01:55 AM
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Originally Posted by leonf
221 featherweight would be a good choice. but way expensive
301 is aluminum bodied adn very nice
99 is a 3/4 machine and a small number of them were made of aluminum
Those are all Singers.
Post war Japanese machines were nearly all cast iron.
Some Domestics/Whites were made of magnesium but they don't have much of a following.[ATTACH=CONFIG]614401[/ATTACH]
301 is aluminum bodied adn very nice
99 is a 3/4 machine and a small number of them were made of aluminum
Those are all Singers.
Post war Japanese machines were nearly all cast iron.
Some Domestics/Whites were made of magnesium but they don't have much of a following.[ATTACH=CONFIG]614401[/ATTACH]
07-03-2019, 06:25 AM
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Originally Posted by leonf
My 185 is cast iron.
Allan, I completely forgot about the 99 clones like the Sewmor Featherweight and Belair Bantam. When you said you got Featherlight, I was thinking you had gotten a Featherlite , aka Flower. I had done some research about the Featherlite and what little I found, was not positive. I must have missed https://www.sewinginsight.com/other-...erlite-review/
There are a couple different Sewmor Featherweight's shown at Clones from A to Z - update
We like pictures
Please post some when you get it.Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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