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emmah 10-11-2011 01:25 PM

NC REDBIRD-----Best way to find current prices is to go to ebay and search for your machines under "advanced search" (see next to the search box and click on that. Then choose "completed listings" after you enter your machine model. You will get the prices paid and pictures and information that the seller posted. You can figure out that if you sell them locally you can get more or less what they are going for on ebay. (You cannot just do a regular search on ebay, cause there are crazy people who list a rusted hunk of a machine for twice the price of a nice clean running machine. Their machines never sell!)
(Prices vary by location, also. I got three machines in the back hills of PA for total of $25. Never see deals like around my area.)

Courtepointe 10-11-2011 02:01 PM

Wow! What a wealth of information here. I just spent a l o n g time reading about 200 pages.
I am happy to be joining the vintage club with my "new to me" Singer 99k. I just got it at a junk shop for 25.00. All I needed was a new light job and some oil to get her going.
I have some Singer slant attachments if anyone wants to purchase them. Pm me.

miriam 10-11-2011 02:02 PM


Originally Posted by grammydar
So where do I start???
What would you do first?

Right now I need to get some work done.

I would start by watching Muv's wonderful videos!!! http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-155695-1.htm
She has a series of 8 on U tube. I would watch them all before I did too much. She has really good info.

If the machine is locked up - then you may need Billy's "spa treatment" or a partial spa treatment .

Just be sure and use sewing machine oil. Avoid 3 in 1 oil.

grammydar 10-11-2011 02:05 PM

so I have 3 treadles now ( need to take pics of the last one)
# G8292942 Shuttle
G9247232 regular bobbin
G7349780 Shuttle someone painted it pale green, do I refinish it?
Do we know how old they are and where they were made?

Charlee 10-11-2011 02:06 PM


Originally Posted by grammydar
so I have 3 treadles now ( need to take pics of the last one)
# G8292942 Shuttle
G9247232 regular bobbin
G7349780 Shuttle someone painted it pale green, do I refinish it?
Do we know how old they are and where they were made?

Someone painted the cabinet pale green? I would refinish it...but I don't care for painted wood...if you like it, leave it as it is... :)

G7349780 model 127 commissioned 8/28/19
G8292942 model 127 commissioned 8/5/20
G9247232 model 66 commissioned 2/28/22

:)

grammydar 10-11-2011 02:06 PM


Originally Posted by miriam

Originally Posted by grammydar
So where do I start???
What would you do first?

Right now I need to get some work done.

I would start by watching Muv's wonderful videos!!! http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-155695-1.htm
She has a series of 8 on U tube. I would watch them all before I did too much. She has really good info.

If the machine is locked up - then you may need Billy's "spa treatment" or a partial spa treatment . .

Just be sure and use sewing machine oil. Avoid 3 in 1 oil.

Thanks one of them is locked up, what is Billy's spa treatment, I will search for it later, time to make dinner now.

miriam 10-11-2011 02:09 PM


Originally Posted by grammydar
so I have 3 treadles now ( need to take pics of the last one)
# G8292942 Shuttle
G9247232 regular bobbin
G7349780 Shuttle someone painted it pale green, do I refinish it?
Do we know how old they are and where they were made?

They painted the shuttle?

miriam 10-11-2011 02:10 PM


Originally Posted by grammydar

Originally Posted by miriam

Originally Posted by grammydar
So where do I start???
What would you do first?

Right now I need to get some work done.

I would start by watching Muv's wonderful videos!!! http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-155695-1.htm
She has a series of 8 on U tube. I would watch them all before I did too much. She has really good info.

If the machine is locked up - then you may need Billy's "spa treatment" or a partial spa treatment . .

Just be sure and use sewing machine oil. Avoid 3 in 1 oil.

Thanks one of them is locked up, what is Billy's spa treatment, I will search for it later, time to make dinner now.

How bad does it look? Just because it is locked up doesn't mean you have to strip it down. Is it locked up from rust or from 3 in 1 oil? I trust you can tell the difference. Not every machine needs the total tear down and soak

Lostn51 10-11-2011 02:15 PM


Originally Posted by grammydar
so I have 3 treadles now ( need to take pics of the last one)
# G8292942 Shuttle
G9247232 regular bobbin
G7349780 Shuttle someone painted it pale green, do I refinish it?
Do we know how old they are and where they were made?

G8292942 is a 127 with 40000 of them allotted on August 5 1920

G9247232 is a 66 with 50000 of them allotted on February 28 1922

G7349780 is a 127 with 50000 of them allotted on August 28 1919 <<<< This machine is only a few from the end of the run!

Billy

miriam 10-11-2011 02:47 PM

http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/bfs/2606628777.html
Is anybody looking for the old taylor's machine. It is considered industrial. These are a very good machine. I bet if you treadled it you could move some stuff through.


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