Singer 319K – first few days
Having won the auction with the only bid of $10, I picked up the machine on Monday night, and started a long slow inspection of the machine. This is best done while cleaning and lubricating as most things get touched …
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Final Fashion Disc pattern for Singer 306 confirmed
It’s been a labour of love for the last few weeks, redesigning all the Singer Type A Fashion Discs from varying quality stitch samples, pictures from manuals and from the pattern printed on the disc in some cases. One disc …
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More fashion disks for my 306k
Following on from previous posts about Fashion Disks I have been researching into the Elna Supermatic and SU sewing machines and the discs that they use. I have never seen an example of one of these disks, but there is quite …
Singer 306k – needles
When I picked up my Singer 306k from a man who was as retired as me, he told me that he had used it to make sails (for boats), and when I started working on it I found a size …
Fashion Discs – 3D printing and 306K Sewing machine
Following from 3D Printing Singer Type A Fashion Discs below, a whole bunch of stuff has happened. Firstly I have created numerical designs of all 33 Type A Fashion Discs (1 through 32 and 37), basically a stitch position from …
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3D Printing Singer Type A Fashion Discs
Back ground I have spent a very happy few days combining my two main hobbies at the moment, namely rescuing/restoring a Singer 306K Automatic Swing-Needle Sewing Machine, and learning as much about 3D design and 3D printing as I …
Singer 306K – crossover into 3d printing!
My Creality Ender 3 V3 SE 3D printer is pretty well used, not so much for decorative knick knacks, but for useful things, repairs to objects,extending the use of thing etc. I have got it sorted out and can print …
306k Some good progress
Getting this 306k running well is going to be a slow and interesting process. The first job is finding out how it is supposed to work. I have the user manual and the service manual, which helps. However, when things …
Singer 306k update
I have not been well for a while, and I promised Lynn that I would not work on the two new machines until the winter. Well for the last two weeks I have been slowly creating a machine base for …
Lithophanes
My first Lithophane, using Corel PhotoPaint 12 to crop and modify the image, and Cura slicer to convert the image into a .STL file for printing in white PLA on my Creality Ender 3 V3 SE print. My second one …