Singer 306K purchase
Having donated my Singer 201K23 to my daughter and son in law, I have been missing it’s quirkiness and lovely performance. I haven’t bought a machine for a while, but a Singer 306K from 1954 came up on Facebook marketplace, …
Category: Other Technology
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 …
A little ugly duckling – 201K23 in cream suitcase
Last weekend we finally found a Senior Cabinet, a Type 72 that takes a class 15, 66 or 201. It had a 201K in it, which was of little interest, and I got it for $50. The cabinet was slightly …
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Type 66 bobbins
We have two 99k, a 185k and a 201k, and my daughter and her husband have a 66k and a 201k. What these machines have in common is that they all take the type 66 bobbins. I am lucky enough …
Important things I found out about the Singer 15K110
The Singer 15K110, or the 15-110, is not a well documented sewing machine, in fact finding a user manual, adjusters manual etc seems to be impossible unless you have a good grasp of obscure internet technology! Likewise, no videos exist …
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More singers (sewing machines of course)
If this carries on we will have a choir! So we already have a 1911 28K on a treadle, that belonged to my wife’s great grandma, grandma and mother, and a 1960 99k which was stripped to bare metal, repainted …
Update on new sewing machine (Singer 99K-31)
When I started using the new machine, it was Ok, but was noisy and strained a bit to get going. In addition it would not hold a stitch length. This last problem may have been just a loose screw, but …
A new sewing machine (Singer 99K-31)
This is a technology blog, but not all technology is modern technology.I have a love of older technology, for years I owned a 1978 Mini LE, and I have quite a few old tools in my workshop. As I got …
Squirrel – 5 years and 54,000 kms
A couple of days ago it was the fifth anniversary of the day we picked up the Miev Minicab, and since then we have done a lot of kms in the van. With petrol now costing $3.12 per litre, and …