BoJangles

Congratulations your new 99K and the FW that is going to be living at your house!

Nancy

BoJangles

Well, 16 of the machines live in my sewing room along with an HQ 16 long arm on a 10' table! The rest are placed throughout the house or on shelves if they are not in a cabinet.

I use every one of my machines, but a 1930 New Home - Light Running - that needs a friction motor, and a second New Home T No 3 from 1926 that needs the same type of friction motor.

I just finished tonight doing some piecing with my 66-6 that we saved to use as a parts machine - I have a very hard time parting out a machine - actually, I have NEVER parted out a machine! They all get fixed! Geeze, do I have a problem! But Wow that 66 sews perfectly! Pictured on page 1004.

There are quite a few people on here who have a lot more machines than I have -- Miz Johnny, I think has a couple hundred!

Nancy

olebat

You are so right. Excellent prices. I'll send some business there for sure. Danke for the site link.

Minnesota newbie

I will try to post after we get back from fishing

olebat

Portables store in the walk out basement, easy to load to take on the road for sewing classes. The cabinets are rapidly filling the house. I've had classes here on some those machines. By the end of the summer, (we hope,) most of the machines in cabinets will go to the new 4-H center. I'll keep the 201, 301, a 15 and a 66 and one of the treadles here at home for personal use. Most of the portables will store at the 4-H center, as those are also the ones we use for loaners. Most of the portables are a mix mash of donated and salvaged machines. It doesn't take much for the kids to mess them up. Where as, the old classics are close to indestructible. We can spend our class time sewing, not trouble shooting a problem machine. So, my goal is still to collect a total of 25, portable, FW and or 301's in compact portable cases, to take on the road for sewing classes.

tomilu

How super neat!!!!

BoJangles

Yes Lucy, the Monthly Mini's are miniature quilts. If you go to patchabilities.com you can see what they have. The mini's are a lot of fun to do for holiday decorations or just to do something that is quick and easy - as apposed to what I usually do, which is a queen/king sized quilt.

Nancy

BoJangles

Jan and everyone who seems to be confused as to what a Singer's Model 15 clone looks like here are a couple pictures I am re-posting of my 15 clone. The first dead give away that you have a 15 clone is the tension dial's location on the face of the machine. See the side view - there is no tension on the side of the head facing you like most machines -- the tension disk is on the face plate - in front. When you find a machine like this, that is not an actual Singer, it is a clone of the Singer Model 15.

Now as far as Dressmaker, several companies had a machine they called Dressmaker or Dressmaker something. In fact, there is a very cheap Brother I think Wal Mart sells today called a Dressmaker. Anyway, the way you know for sure is that tension disk. Only Singers or Singer clones had that tension disk located on the face.

Does this help?

Nancy

BoJangles

Jan, the only thing I know about Western Electric is that National made Western Electric machines from 1917 to 1918 - only 2 years. I also know that Graybar was first called Western Electric. Graybar split off from Western Electric in 1925 to become Graybar. I think the person on here who understands the whole Western Electric, National, Graybar thing is Monica (Vintagemotif) as she has two different Two Spools machines and she has done some research on them. Those chain stitch machines did thread pretty much the same. I'd try a Wilcox & Gibbs threading route, but maybe Monica can help with that too.

Nancy

Here is some information on the Wilcox and Gibbs and how to thread one. http://www.sewalot.com/willcox_gibbs.htm

BoJangles

Randa, that Dressmaker is NOT a 15 clone. See where your tension disk is located on the front facing you. It is a very pretty machine, though!

Nancy