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Semper Designer mystery machine

Old 01-14-2019, 11:50 AM
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]606747[/ATTACH]
The hook and bobbin assembly and gearcase.
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Old 01-14-2019, 11:51 AM
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]606748[/ATTACH]
And a bit of a wider view.
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Old 01-16-2019, 06:36 AM
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Yesterday I set out to the thrift stores hoping to find a foot pedal from just about anything that I could use with this machine, as the old carbon pile pedal had stopped doing anything except off and full steam. The lady at Salvation Army brought out two old machine that were "tore up". One was a Brother that contained almost as much metal as a library card, but had an electronic foot pedal. The other was a rather pretty Singer 201 with the geared motor. I bought both for $10.00!! Returning home, I wired the Brother pedal to the original outlet setup on the Semper (travesty, I know) and it worked brilliantly. It has superb range and control. I turned the thing over to my eldest, who, not wanting to go out to the shop in the cold, produced a spool of my grandmother's old thread, deteriorated so that we were barely able to thread the thing. She wound the bobbin, threaded up, and laid in a doubled over piece of what looked like light sack cloth. Even with that old thread, the thing sewed the nicest, prettiest straight stitch, and left my daughter positively beaming.

Thanks to all for all the help trying to identify this gem. If anyone has any further thoughts, I'd love to hear them!!
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Old 01-16-2019, 09:02 AM
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Great success story. thanks for sharing all you have.
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Old 01-16-2019, 01:54 PM
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Here's an issue I've ecountered, though. I'm trying to learn the craft of seeing machine repair. I've rather a collection of machines here to work on, but after fiddling with this machine and several antique singers we've acquired (28s, 128s, a 201 etc), now I don't want to play with the newer, lighter machines! They just simply don't feel so nice rolling through!
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Old 01-17-2019, 07:09 AM
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Adding zig zags seems to increase the drag on our machines. My pre ZZ machines always spin nicer that my zzs.
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Old 09-20-2020, 08:14 AM
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Hello,
As I saw you are interested in this semper mystery machine. Here is a PDF with the manual in french that I scanned : https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W6v...ew?usp=sharing
The grandmother of my wife have this machine and we found the manual a few weeks ago.
Enjoy !
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