Looking for help to identify a Singer Industrial table
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Looking for help to identify a Singer Industrial table
Hello,
I,m new to all of this and would like your expertise please? I,ve just found an old industrial Singer table and was hoping someone would be able to assist me in identifying its age. It’s a little project I wanted to start as I recall my grandmother using her mother’s machine when I was a child. I saw this and thought I could fix it and bring it back to life.
Details I can see include:
- Great Britain SIMANCO with each piece of the frame given a serial number from 94779, 94780 and 94781.
- Seems it’s been modified at some stage with the original wheel removed and another attached to the table top.
- Table top has a measuring tap attached to the front saying made in England also
Thank you for reading and hopefully I’ll hear from some of you regarding this table and maybe some history.
I,m new to all of this and would like your expertise please? I,ve just found an old industrial Singer table and was hoping someone would be able to assist me in identifying its age. It’s a little project I wanted to start as I recall my grandmother using her mother’s machine when I was a child. I saw this and thought I could fix it and bring it back to life.
Details I can see include:
- Great Britain SIMANCO with each piece of the frame given a serial number from 94779, 94780 and 94781.
- Seems it’s been modified at some stage with the original wheel removed and another attached to the table top.
- Table top has a measuring tap attached to the front saying made in England also
Thank you for reading and hopefully I’ll hear from some of you regarding this table and maybe some history.
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I know that there was a motor made to convert a treadle to use the pedal with a motor, but it was attached differently. It looks like yours has belt grove in the space where the motor would have gone as seen in http://www.sil.si.edu/DigitalCollect.../sil10-162.pdf
Perhaps for a different kind of motor.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
Perhaps for a different kind of motor.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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hmm Industrials often have a clutch between the motor and the head. the motor runs continuously and you blip the clutch to stitch and move fabric. In Janey's pic you can also see a rod to the presser foot lift. MIght yours have both on the same rocking joint? Disregard the comment about the bovin winder.
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hmm Industrials often have a clutch between the motor and the head. the motor runs continuously and you blip the clutch to stitch and move fabric. In Janey's pic you can also see a rod to the presser foot lift. MIght yours have both on the same rocking joint? Disregard the comment about the bovin winder.