Originally Posted by Cheri_J
Sob Sob Sob... I have seven vintage singers - dated between 1921 - 1924. Three are portables - in the coffin wooden cases and three are in the treadle cabinets. One is "loose" no case or cabinet. The reason I'm sad is because my husband refuses to let me bring anymore home. He thinks seven machines is enough. He said we don't have enough house to have any more. He is right, we really don't have the room, but I would love to have more. Everyone's machines are great here.
Texas Jan (who bought one today) |
Originally Posted by gramquilter2
abbyquilts, super cute U-tube video of your niece treadling.
By the way, gramquilter2, your 'quilt inspector' looks so precious in your avatar! |
Originally Posted by quiltdoctor
Originally Posted by Cheri_J
Sob Sob Sob... I have seven vintage singers - dated between 1921 - 1924. Three are portables - in the coffin wooden cases and three are in the treadle cabinets. One is "loose" no case or cabinet. The reason I'm sad is because my husband refuses to let me bring anymore home. He thinks seven machines is enough. He said we don't have enough house to have any more. He is right, we really don't have the room, but I would love to have more. Everyone's machines are great here.
Texas Jan (who bought one today) |
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I went to a yard sale that was being held in two trailers. The first one was a truck trailer, the second was an old house trailer. The house trailer has a treadle that was just really ruined cabinet wise. The machine was some private label that was in bad shape. I left it there. The other was a Singer 66 Red Eye that has been electrified. The manufacture date is 6-10-1914. The cabinet base is wood and rotted out, but the decals are really good. She took $20.00 for it and off I went, complete with bird poop, hay and weed clippings and wood from the case falling off with every step. It was 107 degrees when I got home, so all I have done is take it out of the car into the garage, snap a few pictures and head for the air conditioning. I'll try to free her from the cabinet base tomorrow before it gets too hot.
Texas Jan |
Originally Posted by Bennett
This would be out of my league, I think. :) I did use this for some references on types of older finishes:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/41922059/F...d-Restoration. Good luck! |
Nice save on that 66 Red Head, Jan. From the looks of the pictures, I'd be tempted to ditch the motor and treadle it. Great find! Glenn would LOVE it! Actually, a lot of us would!
Oh, and if we're counting... I think I have 13 vintage machines. I think. I'm not really sure. I KNOW I have two 'modern' ones. I shudder to think how many machines Tommie, Brenda, Billy, Glenn, Char or VM have! Oh wait! Billy has one of mine in his shop, so I guess I have 14 vintage machines! lol.... |
Originally Posted by jljack
Originally Posted by miriam
I would get some penetrating oil from below (turn her upside down - be very careful of your paint though. Then I would try heat on that screw. DH has more strength than I do for that. He had to drill one out with some special kind of tool once. I stayed out of his way... I usually use a screw driver tip from out of the kind that stores in the handle and a tiny wrench to get those off - I used to have a long screw driver ground at a slight angle worked pretty good - it was stolen a while back... It is very hard sometimes to get that screw out because of the angle you have to work at. I'd hate to see the repair bill just getting that screw out.... and I'd hate to hear somebody talking to that machine... When you lift the lid what do you see the shuttle doing? You said you got thread out. Is the notch in it's right place or is it spinning around under there? You did say it turned nice. http://www.ismacs.net/singer_sewing_...ght-manual.pdf look at the info on page 12. It has a great photo of how it is suppose to look. I realize it is a FW but they look about the same. If it is not set like that it could be your problem. But you still have to get the plate off and reset the notch if that is what is wrong. Phyllis, when I turn the handwheel the needle bar does move up and down, but the needle won't go down the throat. It's hitting on something that I can't see. That's where the problem is. When I asked if it could be out of time, everyone thought that was doubtful. So..... OK, Round 2 tonite!!!\ |
Originally Posted by kwendt
Originally Posted by Glenn
Originally Posted by kwendt
I found a beat up, falling apart parlor type cabinet.
The old glue is defunct. All the joins are coming apart. The veneer, which was a sheet over the boards, is cracked top to bottom where the boards were glued edge to edge. What glue would you recommend for old, dried out 1880 wood? I'm now contacting museums to see if anyone else has one of these exact cabinets. And yes, I did contact TreadleOn and the Yahoo Vintage White group to see if any of those folks know of replacement parts. If this is one of the few remaining #9's, I'll need to restore this carefully and properly. Glenn |
Cheri, I have several machines. I put the portables on top of the cabinets ones. That way two machines take up the space of one. I am getting machine # 21 tomorrow. Kathie
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Originally Posted by kwendt
Nice save on that 66 Red Head, Jan. From the looks of the pictures, I'd be tempted to ditch the motor and treadle it. Great find! Glenn would LOVE it! Actually, a lot of us would!
Oh, and if we're counting... I think I have 13 vintage machines. I think. I'm not really sure. I KNOW I have two 'modern' ones. I shudder to think how many machines Tommie, Brenda, Billy, Glenn, Char or VM have! Oh wait! Billy has one of mine in his shop, so I guess I have 14 vintage machines! lol.... Oh well. Texas Jan |
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