Vintage Sewing Machine Shop.....Come on in and sit a spell
Originally Posted by denise d
Originally Posted by SewExtreme
Denise, Someone will help you I am sure by this evening. I know how disappointing it must be. What machine do you have? Most of these vintage machines have online FREE manuals. A lot of my manuals have a list of all the parts in picture form.
Have you looked... hold on, I will be right back.
Here: look on this
http://www.quiltingboard.com/virtual...jsp?vsnum=1013
If there is a title concerning the model of machine you have, you could open it and reply with your need for help. That might get you a quicker answer. Let me know if you don't find what you need. You can PM if you want. :-D
Have you looked... hold on, I will be right back.
Here: look on this
http://www.quiltingboard.com/virtual...jsp?vsnum=1013
If there is a title concerning the model of machine you have, you could open it and reply with your need for help. That might get you a quicker answer. Let me know if you don't find what you need. You can PM if you want. :-D
I did look at Billy's tutorials, but I am not seeing what I need. Thanks everyone for the help. :D
I just checked, and most of what you need is there, I bet!
Originally Posted by denise d
Originally Posted by SewExtreme
Denise, so sorry about your little helper! My 3 year old (back in 1975) saw how much I loved my, then, brand new Bernina sewing machine. So, in order to be helpful, he took a rag and a spray bottle of water to shine it up. I about had a cow when I discovered what his little helping hands were doing. I didn't yell at him, however, because I could see he really was trying to help Mommy. And, he still loves sewing machines to this day. Whew... glad I could hold my tongue.
Sorry about your machine troubles. I know someone is going to be able to help you in this shop. :-D
Sorry about your machine troubles. I know someone is going to be able to help you in this shop. :-D
The most disappointing thing about this, is I was hoping to get her up and running by myself....:)
Good luck!
Originally Posted by emmah
Originally Posted by denise d
Originally Posted by SewExtreme
Denise, Someone will help you I am sure by this evening. I know how disappointing it must be. What machine do you have? Most of these vintage machines have online FREE manuals. A lot of my manuals have a list of all the parts in picture form.
Have you looked... hold on, I will be right back.
Here: look on this
http://www.quiltingboard.com/virtual...jsp?vsnum=1013
If there is a title concerning the model of machine you have, you could open it and reply with your need for help. That might get you a quicker answer. Let me know if you don't find what you need. You can PM if you want. :-D
Have you looked... hold on, I will be right back.
Here: look on this
http://www.quiltingboard.com/virtual...jsp?vsnum=1013
If there is a title concerning the model of machine you have, you could open it and reply with your need for help. That might get you a quicker answer. Let me know if you don't find what you need. You can PM if you want. :-D
I did look at Billy's tutorials, but I am not seeing what I need. Thanks everyone for the help. :D
I just checked, and most of what you need is there, I bet!
Originally Posted by vintagemotif
Originally Posted by denise d
Originally Posted by SewExtreme
Denise, so sorry about your little helper! My 3 year old (back in 1975) saw how much I loved my, then, brand new Bernina sewing machine. So, in order to be helpful, he took a rag and a spray bottle of water to shine it up. I about had a cow when I discovered what his little helping hands were doing. I didn't yell at him, however, because I could see he really was trying to help Mommy. And, he still loves sewing machines to this day. Whew... glad I could hold my tongue.
Sorry about your machine troubles. I know someone is going to be able to help you in this shop. :-D
Sorry about your machine troubles. I know someone is going to be able to help you in this shop. :-D
The most disappointing thing about this, is I was hoping to get her up and running by myself....:)
Good luck!
I know there's some who enjoy treadle tools. Found on CL in NY.
http://syracuse.craigslist.org/atq/2325902254.html
http://syracuse.craigslist.org/atq/2325902254.html
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Originally Posted by SewExtreme
Thanks. And, I will remember not to shoot the messenger!
I might wait a bit though since I have several projects going. Will you post a new topic when you work with it? I am sure that would be interesting to a lot of board members.
:D
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Originally Posted by denise d
I know a lot of folks have taken apart their machines. I have a bit of a quandary...
I took my machine apart and soaked it. Unfortunately my 5 yr old was playing with the camera. Yes, you see where this is going.
He deleted the photos I took. ARGH!!!
Needless to say, I have a million pieces in a bag and no blasted clue where to begin.
Does anyone have photos of their process or a link to a manual or schematic that I can follow? Thanks for the help.
I took my machine apart and soaked it. Unfortunately my 5 yr old was playing with the camera. Yes, you see where this is going.
He deleted the photos I took. ARGH!!!
Needless to say, I have a million pieces in a bag and no blasted clue where to begin.
Does anyone have photos of their process or a link to a manual or schematic that I can follow? Thanks for the help.
There is a program that will recover those deleted photos so don't despair yet. I've recovered photos taken several 'years' previous even when the card had been formatted several times after they were deleted.
If you google 'Rescue Pro' you will get several sites with free downloads, it's only a very small program but worth it's weight in gold, imho!! It often comes with SanDisk cards, that's how I got it.
Hope this helps?
Bronwyn ;-)
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Grrr.... it's happening again!! sorry!!
Originally Posted by cabbagepatchkid
Originally Posted by Quiltgranny
I've got a 301a foot controller question or two. Recently acquired a 301a shortbed with the old bakelite foot controller which is driving me crazy. Don't know if this is operator error or what, since I'm new to this type of foot controller.
When depressing on the button on the left of the foot controller, my machine usually hesitates before starting to sew - from a slight hesitation to I need to use the hand wheel to start her. I know this is not normal from what I've read, that being that she should just take off running, no hesitation or hand wheel assistance required.
Also, the foot controller button seems kinda 'sticky', in that it takes more pressure from my foot to depress, and even that varies when using. Often, she'll just start racing and nearly eats my fingers off if I'm not careful. So, getting any speed control is difficult at best.
http://blog.sew-classic.com/2009/11/...r-control.aspx
Thanks so much for your assistance and for providing the link. I did as you suggested, and am finding it a bit less sticky and starting up a bit better after running some trial lines of stitches. I'll sew on it some more later this evening and see if improvements continue.
Much oblige, :thumbup:
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Hi -You are right. Thanks. Now I'm going to find out how to use the little beauty.
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