Saturday's haul -
04-26-2015, 02:27 PM
#11
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I should be mad. 
You're starting to make me rethink passing on the Martha Washington cabinets. Yours looks like its in really good shape AND it has the tray on top. I think those disappear a lot.
The treadle looks different than other Singer treadles. I'm trying to figure out what's different. It looks like there are some extra linkages underneath and I don't see a place for the belt on the machine head. Some clarification on how it works please?
I like the green or beige 319s too but the black is by far more classy IMO. The desk and matching chair are nice too. Almost as nice as the #42 Deco desk-high praise from me, the deco desk is a hard act to follow. The chair should be a pretty easy repair. Skip might have some ideas on the white mark on the desk. IIRC there are ways to deal with it without a complete refinish.
Overall it looks like a great weekend. I hope the drive to get everything was fun too.
Rodney
You're starting to make me rethink passing on the Martha Washington cabinets. Yours looks like its in really good shape AND it has the tray on top. I think those disappear a lot. The treadle looks different than other Singer treadles. I'm trying to figure out what's different. It looks like there are some extra linkages underneath and I don't see a place for the belt on the machine head. Some clarification on how it works please?
I like the green or beige 319s too but the black is by far more classy IMO. The desk and matching chair are nice too. Almost as nice as the #42 Deco desk-high praise from me, the deco desk is a hard act to follow. The chair should be a pretty easy repair. Skip might have some ideas on the white mark on the desk. IIRC there are ways to deal with it without a complete refinish.
Overall it looks like a great weekend. I hope the drive to get everything was fun too.
Rodney
04-26-2015, 02:35 PM
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Originally Posted by greywuuf
obviously the 319 should come live with its little sister with me..... I have a matching black 306w.
Hmm.. wonder if they're japanned and they switched to enamel or are they black enamel and they soon realised they could easily colour them. How old are your black machines greywuuf and Cathy (I'm assuming you know and don't have to look up the SNs)?
Earliest coloured 306 and 319 I have are from 1957.
I agree with Rodney, the black looks classier.
My haul on the weekend was just a Singer 451K145 and 331K4 (heads only).
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04-26-2015, 04:14 PM
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I am fairly certain mine is enamel (enamal paint ...not actual enamel) and not Japan...I do not recall the year pretty sure I looked it up once...but they (306w) was only made for a very few years.
04-27-2015, 12:09 AM
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the following is taken from the website http://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/306/
"The 306K machines were produced between 1954 and 1961. 306W models were identical machines, but made in the German factory and 306M models were made in Monza, Italy.
Earlier models known as the 'Automatic Swing-Needle 306K' had the facility to automatically produce different stitch patterns by mounting plastic pattern discs (cams) into a holder at the top of the main pillar. Later models such as the 306K22 and 306K23 did not include the use of pattern cams."
since mine is a cam equipped model it apears as though you are correct in it being "Early"
"The 306K machines were produced between 1954 and 1961. 306W models were identical machines, but made in the German factory and 306M models were made in Monza, Italy.
Earlier models known as the 'Automatic Swing-Needle 306K' had the facility to automatically produce different stitch patterns by mounting plastic pattern discs (cams) into a holder at the top of the main pillar. Later models such as the 306K22 and 306K23 did not include the use of pattern cams."
since mine is a cam equipped model it apears as though you are correct in it being "Early"
04-27-2015, 04:57 AM
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Originally Posted by greywuuf
the following is taken from the website http://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/306/
"The 306K machines were produced between 1954 and 1961. 306W models were identical machines, but made in the German factory and 306M models were made in Monza, Italy.
Earlier models known as the 'Automatic Swing-Needle 306K' had the facility to automatically produce different stitch patterns by mounting plastic pattern discs (cams) into a holder at the top of the main pillar. Later models such as the 306K22 and 306K23 did not include the use of pattern cams."
since mine is a cam equipped model it apears as though you are correct in it being "Early"
"The 306K machines were produced between 1954 and 1961. 306W models were identical machines, but made in the German factory and 306M models were made in Monza, Italy.
Earlier models known as the 'Automatic Swing-Needle 306K' had the facility to automatically produce different stitch patterns by mounting plastic pattern discs (cams) into a holder at the top of the main pillar. Later models such as the 306K22 and 306K23 did not include the use of pattern cams."
since mine is a cam equipped model it apears as though you are correct in it being "Early"
04-27-2015, 06:23 AM
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Originally Posted by greywuuf
the following is taken from the website http://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/306/
...306W models were identical machines, but made in the German factory...
...306W models were identical machines, but made in the German factory...
BTW - Thanks to Needlebar.org, I just learned that most, if not all, 306M machines made in Italy were cast iron, and fitted with knee-lift linkage to the presser foot.
CD in Oklahoma
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