purplefiend

I'd like to figure out a way to treadle one like this. That would be awesome!

Janis

Here's what I got today. I paid for a 1931 Singer 66 in a cabinet but left it there!!! (I have to pick my battles with the hubby.) He said NO MORE MACHINES!!! but he found this one at the flea market. He showed it to me because of the attachments and HE determined that the machine was junk! (he has NO mechanical abilities, nor interests in the workings of a machine.) The wheel was rusty, and other things too weren't so great........ So I paid the #25.00 for the machine and left it and the cabinet there. What I went home with is a Singer Pinking Attachment with original instruction book for it, a Singer Hemstitcher and Picoting Attachment in the original box and the instruction booklet for it, a foot hemmer, adjustable hemmer, ruffler, blindstitch attachment, 2 wide zipper feet, a seam guide, A. Colbert Embroidery Guide Braider, ( what ever that is), a short quilting foot, (I think ), that can have the bar put in it, a 1/4" black foot, and 10 bobbins, of which 7 are solid and three have the three holes in the side of them. I think I did quite good for the $25.00, don't you? I hated leaving the machine there, but thought that some one else could use it. I did leave a bobbin in the bobbin case for them. Now I need to know where I can get the special cover for the feed dogs for the 221 so I can use the hemstitcher on it. The plate I got will work on my 99. Also, what about the little rubber feet on the hemstitcher ? They are hard and brittle. Does that matter a lot, and if so, can I get replacements for them? And the bobbins, are the ones for the 66 the solid ones and the ones with the holes for the 99, or are they interchangable?

miriam

Now I need to know where I can get the special cover for the feed dogs for the 221 so I can use the hemstitcher on it. A button holer plate should work.

Also, what about the little rubber feet on the hemstitcher ? Like on the ends? Go to the hardware store and ask for electrical shrink wrap and use on there

And the bobbins, are the ones for the 66 the solid ones and the ones with the holes for the 99, or are they interchangable? yes

Janis

Thanks Miriam for the information. I thought of you today when I said good by to that machine. I knew that you would have given it a good home, or at least tried to clean it up. If I had your phone number, I'd have called you and told you go and get it. After all, I had paid for it. It wasn't frozen up at all, and the wheel would make the needle bar go up and down. But I knew that I couldn't get anywhere with the hubby on that one, so I didn't try. Some day, I would like to take one apart and try to see what I could do with a machine. Some day.... And what I wanted most was the attachments, and I got them!!.

mpeters1200

Man, have one family emergency and miss out on 12 pages of junk. I am starting to play catchup now.

Bug guts coming out of machine??? Yikes, I didn't even THINK about them not coming out dead. Yucky.
Managed to get almost all of my table runners quilted, then said family emergency...none of them bound yet and we are at 10 days and counting. So...they will get all their gifts in January and be done.

I did go to the local guild Xmas party and won a raffled set of books. Mostly 70's stuff, but I'm excited because they have a ton of pictures of quilting motifs that you can blow up and make your own stencils. Lots of pretty scallops shapes and wavy lines...oh the hand quilting possibilities!

Just trying to catch up now....

miriam

AW I wish I could have had it..... It is amazing what you can do with them - if nothing else - parts. i'm working on a redeye sort of half heartedly. It is mechanically fantastic. The paint isn't too bad but it sure is crudded up with black goo on the chrome parts. I think I'm going to have to try the barkeepers on that. The balance wheel is really rusty but I think the barkeepers might help it. The nose and the circle plate have chrome coming off around the edges. It isn't too bad inside. The bobbin winder is gross. The bobbin wick is gone. Any body know what to do about those?

Bennett

Aww, catching up on American Pickers and wishing I could control the camera! Four treadle machines all in a row, and they barely show them.

vintagemotif

That would be fun to treadle! Too far a drive for me. Hopefully someone in the Sacramento area picks it up, but if no, it will be fun watching it on ebay.

vintagemotif

Nice find! Enjoy them all!

vintagemotif

I googled images and found one like this, Bernina 730 Favorit. The photos showed the back side of machine. Looks like an easy remove the external motor and should be good to go.