Old Sewing Machine Identification
#41
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Well this is what I found of the table. Its a bit broken but repairable. I'm still missing some smaller parts that broke off so I'm gonna keep looking for those. I didn't find the cabinet so I'll keep looking for that. If I can't find it, I'll make a simple table top for it. Because I found almost all of the table, I won't make the portable wooden base like I mentioned earlier, I'll fix up the old table and use it instead.
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Here's just a quick update. Soon after my last post winter came into full effect. My shop where i work on the machine isn't heated either so its been just too cold to do anything with it. I suppose what I could do is de-rust the parts I do have off the machine. This was just a quick update to tell you that I'm not dead and neither is this project. Hopefully it warms up quickly in March and I can get back to work on this machine.
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I did a quick picture search and came up with this. It looks like it was made by National and sold under various names. The body isn't spot on, but similar enough for me to suspect it's a National. Here is a list of various National models.
I don't know about elsewhere in the world but in France, Simplex is a brand still known nowadays for manufacturing bicycle parts (pedalier and so on)
#47
Here's just a quick update. Soon after my last post winter came into full effect. My shop where i work on the machine isn't heated either so its been just too cold to do anything with it. I suppose what I could do is de-rust the parts I do have off the machine. This was just a quick update to tell you that I'm not dead and neither is this project. Hopefully it warms up quickly in March and I can get back to work on this machine.
Also thank you for the tip about the torch. Sometimes we forget about some of the more extreme measures to loosen things up. We got a "new" used press brake at work that there was a bolt (over an inch in diameter) that was stuck and Blaster wasn't working, I mentioned a torch. Tried a vintage blow dryer that got so hot that it turned itself off. So out came the torch. Just heating the top portion, one could see the blaster coming out the other side. I didn't time it or see the metal change colors, but it finally moved.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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Well, It warmed up a lot this weekend and I had a chance to do some work on the sewing machine again. I got a few more parts off. I have a question. Is there something that holds the flywheel/ handwheel to the shaft. I have my hand wheel turning but it doesn't want to come off. I thought I should ask before I break something.
Also the torch is a very useful tool when it comes to freeing stuck or frozen parts. Its good that it worked for you.
Also the torch is a very useful tool when it comes to freeing stuck or frozen parts. Its good that it worked for you.
#49
A word of caution about a pulley puller trying to get the hand wheel off after the stop motion -- if it is still stuck, you could break the spokes. LeonF just had a thread about what happens when someone had tried and ruined the hand wheel. VS White clutch removal That is a little different stop motion clutch than what I believe you have on your machine.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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