costumegirl

Lucky you!! It looks new!!

Prim Quilts

Congratulations! I have never seen a 222 in person. I have 2 black 221's and 1 white 221. I have never seen a beige one either.

SoBuzy

Beautiful machine!!! I'm jealous too! You take care of that jewel and ENJOY sewing with it!!

psychonurse

IT IS beautiful. look at it shine. Congrats to you.

Redsquirrel

I took a 110 V motor off an old 221 and am hoping to put on a cheep UK 222k if I ever find one. I'm guessing that if I swap out the UK motor for the North American one and change the wiring on the plug for the foot controller that it will work. Does anyone else do this, am I crazy to think its that simple?

manicmike

It's almost certainly that simple, because the 222K was made in Scotland (all of them) and some were sold to North America. With this in mind, the machines will probably be absolutely identical except for the electrical stuff, which was possibly even fitted and tested in the U.S. with 221 parts. Nobody wants to make more work for themselves, so your assumption is likely to be a good one.
Remember that the light wiring is connected too, and the rest of the world uses 220-240V bayonet fitting light bulbs. The U.S. and Canada probably use the screw in variety. It's not hard, though, especially if you removed the light with the 221 motor (and why wouldn't you?).

Your hardest task will be finding a cheap one at all, anywhere!

Lyncat

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ArchaicArcane

The US and Canadian machines use a Bayonet style bulb too. Motors were fitted in both Canada and the US to avoid the tariffs on "whole" sewing machines. They were considered incomplete without a motor by the time these machines were in vogue (the first time)

Red Squirrel - My 222 came from Airdrie. Not far from you. It was under $300 before taxes. That's considered cheap for a 222K here.

manicmike

Cool: In that case, the motor is likely to be the only difference, and a 220-240V FW motor is still worth good money outside the Americas (see wikipedia for details on this). If anyone from 110V zone wants to use a 220-240V machine, it's very easy to just buy a transformer. I had a 221- (110V) and the transformer was about $60 - problem solved.
But all the time I had it I hoped the bulb wouldn't blow (which it didn't - whew!). Not many (any) places here sell 110V sewing machine bulbs.