flawhoopi

Does anyone know anything about this machine? Singer 6110. A "friend" got it for me from a yard sale for $2. It doesn't have feet or a power cord or power controller. The duel power and foot control on line are $28. Right now it smells like an ashtray. Is there anyway this machine is worth $28. Thanks for any and all help♥

Battle Axe

What does the plug look like. I have over 50 foot controllers and can beat that $28.00 price.

Marcia

flawhoopi

It's a duel power port with 5 prongs, I have already found feet, from another old singer I have and never use, I like Sears Kenmore 158's I enjoy the use of cams and they are strong machines, I have 3 of them, 17530,17550, and a 17560 and never paid more than $10. for any of them but the cams and fun accessories are costly!
Maybe I can find a good home for this one!

Mickey2

I can't vouch for the 6110 model in particular, but if you are looking for stretchy stitches and single needle overlock type stitch you have to accept plastic gears. All metal models are nice and an advatage, but some of my favorite zigzaggers have a few plastic gears (Elna Supermatic, Bernina 730, 830...) and they have been well worth the money and effort to fix them up for regular use again. Some of these machines run well for decades with out any trouble. If the 6110 turns out to be a good model $28 is not much at all. I expect to spend a bit of time and money on cleaning, replacement parts like belts, bobbin tire, the replacement gears we get now are quite good, sometimes there is a metal version of them too.

flawhoopi

Well it's not an issue anymore, while cleaning and oiling I discovered one of the gears was missing a cog! I'm 72, it would have been fun cleaning and refurbishing, but not replacing gears and motors! Thanks for the help♥

J3General

If you decide to tackle the repair, tandtrepair.com may have the gears for that project. A friend of mine just got the replacement gears from them to fix his deceased mother's Singer 756.

John Thomas

Mickey2

Some become president of the US at ca. that age and have to sort out much worse ;- )

If you can access the setting screw for the gears and not too many parts need to be taken appart to get to it, it will not be as big a deal as it might sound. Some models are more cumbersome than others this way, others turn out to be a simple job.

If you are looking for stretchy stitch patterns (the red ones) you might as well do a bit more search on this model. Some of the 70s Singer models take "flexi cams", double layer which give the stretchy stitch. Some of them are better than others.

If you want the all metal construction go for a different model, a bit older than your 6110. The last all metal machines are generally dated to around 1960s (singer at least), but a lot of models had plastic gears by the early 1950s. There are a few models with stretch stitch patterns from the early 1950s , but there isn't many.

If you can accept simpler zigzag stitch patterns there are lots of nice models, but they usually need a lot of cleaning and oilling, a few replacement parts like belts and bobbin tires. I bougth a black cast iron straight stitcher (Singer 201) and have never regretted it. It has become a favorite, but I keep a freearm zigzagger on the side for fancy stitches and for jobs where the freearm is an advantage.

bkay

I would donate it.

bkay

Cari-in-Oly

I would never donate a machine that I knew was broken without putting a tag on it saying what is wrong with it. How many times have we bought a machine only to find broken parts inside. Some of mine I would have purchased anyway, but some not. I won't deliberately do that to someone else.

Cari

bkay

I hadn't thought about that aspect of donating.

However, I always assume that a machine won't work when I find it in the thrift store or on an auction.

Sometimes, though, I get a surprise.

bkay