Lacelady

Can anyone tell me about the belt that seems to be in white FW's.....

"There was some cutting-edge technology in the use of a belt instead
> of gears to connect the upper and lower shafts....."

I have a white one, now I am worried - do these belts wear out, or ever need replacing?

BoJangles

Katia,
In trying to date my White Rotary machine I came across this website. http://community.webshots.com/user/arachneobsession
On there is a Serial numbers/Dating List and a ton of information on White machines and loads of pictures. Your machine was made in 1929.
Enjoy, Judy[/quote]

Judy I tried bringing up this site. I also tried to a goggle search for arachneobsession -- I can't find the site? What is wrong?

Nancy

jenna p in ga

Billy, do you currently sell parts for the old machines or working your way into that? I would like to get a couple of shuttles.

Jenna

BoJangles

Billy I have this 1901 treadle that is very gunky. The decals are mostly silver looking. I see some color so I know they had green and gold in them at one time. I followed your part 3 cleaning tutorial, but I can't find anything that refers to what you do with Liquid Gold?

Is the Liquid Gold just for the cabinet?

After cleaning this machine, it looks pretty dull.

I found Part 2 and part 3 or the tutorial, is there a part 1?

Thanks!

Nancy

mlaceruby

OK found this on CL today
will go look at it this weekend
but I really like it!

Darcene

Lesley,
From all of the information that I can find the internal belt on the white FWs is every bit as good as the internal gears on the black machines....the sewing machine repair people did not like the internal belt because their method of cleaning the machine was to dip it into a vat of solvent and then lubricate all of the moving parts-it was a fast and easy way to get the job done-the external belt could be removed easily for this process and replaced with the original belt once the job was done--but the solvent destroyed the internal belt on the white machines so it had to be replaced with a new belt-basically it took longer to clean the white machine so they told people that the belt was not a good design....Dave McCallum does a very good job of explaining this quite clearly.

I hope this information is of some use to you.....

hulahoop1

Found this on another website that seemed to work!

"If your motor is running slow and just doesn't have any zip anymore, loosen the clutch to disengage the needle and step on the gas. Run it at top speed for a long time until you hear the motor change its sound. Then it’s run itself clean. It might take 10 minutes, but you will hear the change in the motor's sound when it's finally cleaned."

Lostn51

I am selling as we speak, what kind of shuttles are you needing?

Billy

Lostn51

6 to 8 months and I will be in full swing with factory backing and all sorts of neat services to offer. I am looking into taking out full page ads in a few quilting magazines. They will be sold as treadle heads but I will offer electric versions in bentwood cases.

Billy

Lostn51

Liquid Gold is for the machine also, it will not hurt the finish and make it glossy ans have a high luster.

Yes there is a part one right here:

http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-45816-1.htm

Billy