Some of us, ok me, must be more susceptible and don't even need to sewing machine oil to catch the virus. I caught it long before I ever seriously began collecting and cleaning up the vintage ladies. However, i did regularly oil my more modern, but still considered old, sewing machine, Maybe that's how it was transmitted to me. :)

Nice to know there is a place to ask questions. I am taking a FW maintenance class at the end of the month. Hopefully that will increase my knowledge.

Hi! I hate to be a bother, but I think Billy has a tutorial on how to clean a vintage machine and I can't figure out how to find it on the tutorials site. It only shows 16 tutorials and I'm helpless to understand how to get anymore!! Does anyone know the link to Billy's tutorial? Thanks.

Question time (again!) For you e machine owners: I bought a Universal in a very pretty turquiose and white that looks like my mother's cherished White from the 50s. I am dying to sew on it, figueratively, but do not want to die to sew on it. The cord from the motor to the cabinet is two bare wires with shreds of black covering. When I replace that cord (the light cord looks okay), do I need to save the plug? It is not polarized like modern plugs. Will the cabinet accept a new polarized plug? I do not want to do this, I hate working with electricity, but I have to do it, so I want to do it right.

Here you go Plus one on cleaning the cabinet:

http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...ly-t45816.html

http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...ng-t45983.html

http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...ir-t46696.html

http://www.quiltingboard.com/tutoria...s-t109859.html


Happy Reading,
Texas Jan

The plate you are taking about, is it the universal Feed cover plate? Is that what I need for the Picot hemstitcher? It is the only one I saw on Sew-Classic's site that covers the feed dogs.

This is a great site and commit the FW manual to memory (lol). Lots of good stuff in there and free copy at ismacs.net under manuals if you don't already have it.
Jon

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I need help again. Since I have my Hales Cresent pretty much figured out; and, I have almost finished the flip top to complete the re-finishing of my 319W's cabinet, I am now sanding and refinishing the Hitachi treadle. You guys remember when I bought this treadle. The people who had the treadle got it when they bought a storage unit - it was left in the unit. This treadle has original needle packages in the drawer with the original price tag marked in Japanese. The needles were not bought here - they would have had a US price tag on them. I have searched and search. I even sent e-mails to Hitachi and got back an answer that they never made a sewing machine. Well, Hitachi is all over this treadle - on the irons in 3 places, and on the machine. This is obviously an industrial machine. It has a knee bar to lift the foot - a really cool machine, but I can find out nothing about it!

Nancy

Congratulations! Can we see a picture please?

Nancy

Randa, congratulations on your HC. You will love the precision you can get when you use a HC. I like to use my HC when I am doing thread play on a decorative wall hanging type quilt. It is really cool to use the HC for outlining motifs, etc.

Nancy