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I want to get started cleaning and polishing my Singer Treadles. I have read so much lately that it is swimming in my head! :lol:

I did buy Scott's Liquid Gold yesterday, the pour kind. I remember something about Gojo but was it the pumice kind???? And I am still trying to find the TR3 (?)glaze to polish the machine heads with. Do I need to wax the wood to protect and preserve it???

What is the best to restore/clean the iron treadles? Mine are in very good shape, just mostly dirty.

And what can you use to clean the newer vintage machines? I have a 301A and 306K or W (forget which letter).

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Originally Posted by Nancy O.

Hi Billy....I have a question for you regarding my 1940 Singer 201-2 bobbin case. I have been cleaning my machine and finally took the bobbin case apart. I watched very carefully to get everything back the same way. But I can't get the the ring over the bobbin case to lay flat. When I turn the wheel by hand toward me, it is hitting something under the feed dogs. I have checked my instruction book over and over and tried different things and it still hangs up. I even had DH try and help. No luck. I appreciate your help. This thread is amazing. Thanks, Nancy O.

Nancty post a few pics of what your working on in this thread so I can see what we are talking about. I have a real good idea as to what your telling me and if I do its not that bad at all. just will take a bit of patience and holding your tongue right!!

Billy

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Originally Posted by SherriB

Stay away from the PUMICE!!! :lol: :lol:

I use the liquid gold for the finish on the machine heads that I have including the newer ones. But you can use the go jo to clean the machines surface and the decals just make sure it is non pumice.

Billy

There was a corner drawer-stool machine and cabinet on Craigslist this past week like the one in the bottom right of the ad Billy posted. I would like it, but have no room now. Happy browsing.

Hey Folks,

Does anyone know where I can get an internal thread tension spring? The one that goes around the shaft and into the machine on a model 27. The curly end, that the thread rests in, broke off BEFORE I received the machine.

I am thinking if I Carefully! uncoil one or two coils of the old spring, I might be able to bend a new curl.

What do you think? Does anyone have a really good picture I can look at? I saw a couple on the web, but can't get a mental 3D of it yet.

Granny's Model 27

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Originally Posted by Lostn51

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Originally Posted by lfw045

]Update: What do you know........talked to my Uncle today that owns these vintage machines and he said I get first dibs on them both when he decides to let them go and he willl give them to me. Come to find out the one that belongs to my grandmother was a handme down from her mother....and the treadle belonged to my Aunt's mother-in-law that quilted for a living! I remember her quilting well......went with my mother on Sunday's occasionally when I was little and remember wondering if the quilt that was on the ceiling would fall on me and at other times the quilt she was working on would take up that whole room it seemed. It amazes me the memories these machines are bringing out in me......lol! Wonderful.......I am excited even though I don't have a clue when I will actually get them!

That is soo wonderful to hear, and the fact that you know the history behind them makes it that much more special! I wish I knew the histories behind my machines but only one do I know the history. And it was soooo bad off I did a repaint to it but the treadle that came from that machine is my main central treadle to use in my studio.

So in a way my friends grandmother's love is still sewing away when I make my quilts!!

Billy

That is too cool, Billy!!

:D

Wow....what a beauty! Im glad you gave that lady a listening to, probably made her day too!!

Please, do you know of anyone who specialises in non 'standard' long bobbins? My Seidel & Naumann bobbin is 1 & 4/5in long from tip to tip, and the little brass ends are slightly domed, and 7mm across. I think I am not going to have much luck finding any extras, somehow. The tyres I got for the bobbin winder were far too small, but I cut one in half, and a section from another, and superglued the cut ends together. Voila! Necessity is the mother of invention, they say.

Does a Singer machine nicknamed the "mean green machine" ring a bell with anyone? I am curious about what model it is. Thanks.

Billy,

Thank you! I thought I read to use the Gojo without pumice but when I was looking for it, I only saw the Gojo with pumice. I thought for certain that I had read it wrong.