Light on Singer 99
 

How do you take apart the original light on a vintage 99

Andy Tube on YouTube (not affliated) has a detailed video about the spotlight on the 99k. Hope it will help you. https://youtu.be/xNy0E3LVEHU

Welcome from western NY and happy quilting :)

Though it should be ponted out there are several versions of lights.

I have the older version with the long slender Singer lamp. There's two rings on the end where the wire comes out. They need to come off, poking gently with a screw driver or if you have a swiss knife with a can opener like in the video. The end of the wires is soldered on to the copper plate connection parts, when it comes appart you see how it works. The slender Singer lamp is less prone to problems with the light switch.

Try not to break the lense. You might look for a LED lightbulb.

I bought a screw-in LED bulb to try in mine, but, since the light comes out of the side of the bulb, it wasn't very bright. I was hoping it would work since the lens gets really hot with the stock bulb.

Jim

There are some replacement lamp kits out there that might work great with the LED bulbs.

What type of bulb did you get? The more slender B15 bulbs tend to be "corn cob" type, make sure the square yellow light emitting bits is placed evenly all around. If you need the golf ball type E14 bulb (E27) make sure the diodes point outwards. The last few years there's even more types of LED bulbs available.

The one I got must be the B15 type. I looked up the E14 and it looks like that would work better. The best way to go might be a new lamp kit, as you mentioned earlier. Thanks for the info.

Jim