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pennycandy 09-15-2014 11:06 PM

What is this?
 
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sewing-Machi...item2c8943b050 Does this look a window crank?

Cari-in-Oly 09-15-2014 11:41 PM

That's what it looks like to me but he says he makes them himself. Did you notice the brown powder coated featherweight?

Cari

xxxxxxxxxx 09-15-2014 11:51 PM

yes he's been at that for awhile, he just drills a hole in the release knob and screws in a what used to be call a trailer house window crank, you can do the same thing for about 5 bucks . now days the most common place to get the crank would be a RV supply

J Miller 09-16-2014 05:09 AM

A jury rigged solution looking for a problem to create.

I rank this in the same league as the light fixture through the arm on the other machine.


JMNSHO

Joe

Mrs. SewNSew 09-16-2014 05:15 AM

Gah! It's an abomination! :thumbdown:

Rodney 09-16-2014 06:28 AM

I'm not certain of how many people want to hand crank their featherweights.
Yes, it does take a little time to drill and tap a hole for the screw.
http://www.lowes.com/pd_155426-76018...r|1&facetInfo=
The markup may still be just a wee bit high.

Maybe I should steal the idea for the machines I want to bring to next year's fair, the part getting modified isn't exactly hard to come by.
Rodney

Caroline S 09-16-2014 06:32 AM

I agree with Joe. Ugly. Who would want to do that with a Featherweight??? :thumbdown:

ThayerRags 09-16-2014 07:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Caroline S (Post 6891009)
I agree with Joe. Ugly. Who would want to do that with a Featherweight???

Me, for one. And it works just fine, thank you.

CD in Oklahoma

Cari-in-Oly 09-16-2014 09:56 AM


Originally Posted by ThayerRags (Post 6891132)
Me, for one. And it works just fine, thank you.

CD in Oklahoma

AHA! I knew I'd seen a FW handcrank somewhere. Ed Lamoureux also gave one of his an alternate power source:

http://sewing-machines.blogspot.com/...herweight.html

Cari

ThayerRags 09-16-2014 10:47 AM


Originally Posted by Cari-in-Oly (Post 6891298)
Ed Lamoureux also gave one of his an alternate power source:

http://sewing-machines.blogspot.com/...herweight.html

Cari

Yes, I’ve seen that. That’s amusing. You’ll notice that he said that his machine didn’t work very well. Mine does.

CD in Oklahoma


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