Hermes – more progress
The boat shuttle looked good but had a lot of resistance, so it was deep cleaned, the adjuster screw removed and the spring folded out and 120 years of solidified oil and felt removed. The sliding surfaces of the tension …
Category: Singer Sewing Machines
Hermes – progress
After successfully identifying the manufacturer, model and approximate year of manufacture (Haid und Nue, Gloriosa or Liberia, 1906) and finishing a basic clean of the mechanicals and reassembling, I have decided to divide and conquer! The machine has been taken …
Hermes – our new sewing machine
Manufacturer Haid und Neu, model Gloriosa or Liberia, built about 1906, handcrank, nature decals, serial number 934620 This machine has been on and off TradeMe a few times during my interest in sewing machines, and I always thought it was …
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, …
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 …