Digital Singer 319K
I have never put a post into so many categories as this one. It involves an Arduino microprocessor, programming in C++, lots of 3D printing, and my latest sewing machine, a Singer 319K swing needle from 1957. My three main …
Category: 3D printing
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 …
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 …
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 …
3D printing progress
#3DBenchy My best 3dbenchy of 3. Printed in Creality PLA on my Creality Ender 3 V3 SE and the culmination of a couple of weeks refettling and retuning the printer. I bought the printer in December 2024 as a gift …
Vintage Singer electric sewing machine conversion to Singer (or reproduction) hand crank.
Following on from this previous post I have been doing some work on some 3D printed prototypes. The pictures below are of prototype 3, meant to be a proof of concept. As I made a bit of a booboo with …
Hand crank conversion – Vintage Singer
So far, the most notable omission from my collection of sewing machines is a hand crank. For some reason, it is much easier and cheaper to buy old electric machines here in NZ than hand cranks. Having just serviced 6 …