Singer 99

Billy

That was a brand name of a machine and I think it was a toy if I am not mistaken.

Billy

In a couple of weeks I will have my sale and a few of the machines you guys are looking for are in the mix and are all freshly serviced!! I think there will be 9 or 10 machines on this blowout sale.

Billy

Billy - I'm very impressed. You know your machines. I'm just beginning to recognize some of them from the front, usually not the back, and especially not from that poor picture. Course, maybe I was too distracted by the feet. :)

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LOL I could tell because it was short and the mechanics under the bobbin area. If you service as many of these machines as I do you know them with out looking twice!

Billy

I was going to guess 66 on the machine with the towels and feet... Who photographs something like that?

Billy, inspired by what you said about emachines, I actually attempted to sew on my 66 Lotus treadle tonight. I pieced some quilt blocks!! Pretty little sts! It's so tough, tho, to have to yank that handwheel forward to get the ball rolling, and then if I don't keep enough speed the belt slips and the wheels want to go in reverse, which you know breaks the thread... Maybe I need some rosin on the belt? Or maybe my old red leather belt is a little dried out. It feels like it.

Anyway, I have a question: The huge thumbscrew below the bobbin winder is supposed to be the stitch length adjustment. I got it unfrozen with liquid wrench, applied on the screw in front, and the back of it inside the tower (via the rear inspection plate). Now it moves, but only about a quarter turn. That isn't much adjustment, and I can't really see any noticable difference in stitch length. There is about 1/8" of fine threading visible on the shank of that screw, so shouldn't it turn more than just a quarter of a turn? Or were they made to turn only that much?

I LOVED sewing with the treadled 66! The treadle is a little clunky, but the machine itself is so precision and just makes a little "tickety, tickety" sound. I wound a bobbin too, and am just amazed at that whole mechanism. They sure don't make anything like that anymore. Wow.

It is supposed to turn several rounds keep working with it and it will eventually get freed up!!

Billy

Oh here is a great post that someone just made and they are words to live by...........:mrgreen:

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-99558-1.htm


Billy

Billy, a true testimony to your identification skills.