Blackberry

Here are a few more pictures of the Sphinx Singer that I got today. One picture is of some parts that perhaps are needed to attach the motor. The machine has a hole in the base and two screws right below the wheel. The motor nor the light was attached to the machine. I still would like to make it into a hand crank if possible. I think the original wheel must have been a spoke wheel due to the age of this machine. According to Singer's database it was mfg'd in 1899.

mjhaess

Awesome....

MadCow333

When you go to get a spoked wheel, you might need the reproduction one or perhaps a '20s wheel. On my electric 66, the solid wheel is only about 1" deep. The old treadle wheels (prior to '20s, maybe?) are deeper, like 1.25" just to pull a number out of the air to illustrate a point. So, I have an old treadle wheel but I can't use it on my 66 b/c it's too deep. The old spoked wheel sticks out beyond the end of the shaft, on the modern machine. Maybe I could get an old bushing off an old 66 and replace the modern bushing with that. Dunno.

But pay attention to the depth of the wheel you have vs. the one you are looking at to buy, because an old wheel is too deep for the bushing that is on the shaft of the later machines, and you won't be able to put the stop-motion washer and knob on there. (Too-deep wheel, not long enough shaft/busing, in other words.) I am going to presume that the Singer 15 model might also have the same issue since the the 15 is another old model series that changed over the decades.