fleetwood
 

Here's my 15 clone she's up for sale if anyone's interested send me a price. She's a peach colored fleetwood

This isn't really a place to sell machines. This is just a gallery of machines people have and use. I suggest you sell it on CL or Ebay or somewhere.

Ok sorry I didn't know

Is this one? The price seems high, especially if they don't have the accoutrements, but it's so cute:
http://houston.craigslist.org/hsd/3765896377.html

Does anyone know if this would work standing as shown, or does it need a case? BTW, I'm not looking to buy it - just browsing CL for the entertainment value.

Yes it would need a case. BUT it is a PINK Atlas. Alas the Atlas is too far away and I do want one. The price is rather high, 50-75 would be the most I would pay.

I have one identical to that. Mine isn't as nice - there are some scratches and some discolor and mine seems to be peach which may be more rare than pink... DGS, Wilbur loves to hunt for the little man that has the whole world in his hands. Even though mine is ugly it is a wonderful machine now that it is cleaned up. I believe it is made by Brother. I saw one one here on QB with Brother instead of Atlas and the same everything else. I would not get that kind of price around here for one in good shape.

Thanks for the input, Caroline and Miriam. To me it looks a lovely "ballet slipper pink" in the picture. If I keep looking at things like this we may need to add a room!

Is "Love at first sight" possible for a sewing machine?? In the case of the machine below ... it happened for me. I love the fact that it's two-tone but still has that "Singer Shape" to it. The best part is that it sews WONDERFULLY!!

Dig that oversize stitch length regulator! Reverse is the push button in the middle. Drop feed dogs? Two buttons on the bed near the pillar for "darn" or "sew". Oh ... and the bobbin plate is the flip up type ... love it!

I can already tell that this is going to be one of my favorite machines.

Meet the New Home Janome model 170. Serial J-30 D504325. Will try to date her. Suspect 196X.

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Sue, What is NOT to like about that one? It will last for years, too!!!

"Gimbels Special" Debutante 3/4 size Model 15 clone
 

This nice little machine is part of my mother's collection. It originally belonged to my great aunt. It's a 3/4 size clone of a Singer 15. It is badged "Gimbels Special" and the instruction manual says Debutante. The motor has a Morse nameplate. Gimbels was a department store chain, and this machine most likely was purchased at the Pittsburgh store.

It's probably a postwar '40s or early '50s machine, but I don't really know. The hardware is chrome plated. The tension control and the scrolled faceplate and backplate and the chrome rim on the handwheel all harken back to the '20s - prewar '40s.

I put more pictures here in this public album:
http://s889.photobucket.com/user/sad...bels_Debutante

That is really cool. It is a 3/4 size clone that has a hybrid Singer/clone style upper tension and no feed dog drop. It has been well taken care of and lightly used from what I can tell. She's a keeper!:thumbup:
~G~

Thanks. I just had to go dig that one out for photos. Neither my mom or I have seen another like it. My great aunt was married but they had no children. She was not too into cooking, sewing, or homemaking, lol. I don't find it too surprising that the machine was very rarely used.

Just read through this thread. There are a lot of interesting machines in here. :-) I never paid much attention to the clones before. I will now.

I have only seen one 3/4 clone - I still have it. It is a very nice little machine. I thought I posted it.
Here it is next to a full size clone
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This is a clone 15 reproduction made in in Asia for Singer in the early '70s, per the author of the video. I remember seeing reproduction Memphis (sphinx) decal 15 treadle and handcrank sold in the late 1990s and early 2000s, but this machine has the RAF decals.
http://youtu.be/u5vivguaH5c

Here's one that was given to me yesterday.
I haven't touched it, except to take a photo.
Looks a lot like a Singer 15 clone, and if possible I'll use the crank for my new (!) VS2.
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For anyone interested, the crank doesn't fit the older machine :-(

Save the HC for another machine or use it on the one it's on.
The HCs only fit machines with a motor 'boss' that lines up. I tried to fit one yesterday - it was a no go. I hate to scrap out that machine - the motor mounts odd - wiring is shot plus what ever wires are missing plug into the box the machine sits in. I can't remember the name of my machine. It looks sort of like a clone but it is not really a clone. The motor is mounted on the back of the machine. It won't treadle - the base is in the way.

Manual for Japanese 15 Clone Deluxe Precision
 

Hello all! I bought my first clone in the late 80s and have picked up a number of them over the years. Love love love them for the wonderful stitch they produce and simplicity when it comes to maintenance. I'll try to get pictures up soon! In the meantime, here's a manual for the Deluxe Precision that I found online. I like pdf files so using openoffice, it's easy to copy and paste all the jpgs and then export to a pdf file. This manual has a PARTS LIST. Woohoo!

http://bypatrice.com/sewing/deluxe_manual/index.html

Here's mine, apparently. It's my first old-one, and I hadn't even heard the term 'clone 15' until today. Thanks to some friendly helpers, now I know what it is! Need to do some more research.

Taralynn, here is another QB link for you http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...e-t207416.html . We are even interested in the undersides!

I love the clones. Yesterday a man brought back an old black clone he bought from me 5 months ago. He was having trouble. It wouldn't sew through his stuff. Well, it was some kind of treated awning material. I messed with it awhile. He had the presser foot pressure off, the feed dogs were sort of dropped and he had messed up the tension, top and bottom and needle in backwards. I got it all set up and he spied a hand crank I had setting there and we popped it on the clone. Oh my - hot rodding with that. He ended up buying the hand crank set up. (Now I want one on a clone, too.) It was like getting some real horse power going through the heavy stuff - I got it through a few layers of denim and then we got the awning material out - I suggested that he get a bigger needle but the machine went through just fine.

I just finished cleaning out fuzz and I think food from my Universal machine, now am ready to oil and grease. But don't really know where to grease. Should I use just oil on everything but motor. Or is there places that need grease? And it is a JA23 with a Matsushit motor(whatever that means), made in Japan.

You grease gears - I haven't seen any gears on a 15. You oil places that move.

O, ok. Thanks.

Gorgeous & Sleek
 

I'm really new and hope I'm doing this correctly,,, Singer 15 is gorgeous and clone sleek-at least in my opinion :). Singer 15 & parlor cabinet 31 arrived home this past Monday. I brought home my clone this morning.

both are very pretty machines. You got the pictures better than I do!

WOW! Two beautiful machines. Even the dog is mesmerized!
~G~

White Rotary 659. Made by Juki, and utilizes a rotary thread pickup system.

Works, but needs a power cord/foot controller, a part for the bobbin winder, and maybe a bottom lamp shield.

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Stitchy
 

Meet Stitchy the Stitchmaster. I found him at a thrift store, with a Singer button footpedal. He did not work in the standard old-time wooden "portable" box, because the oscillating hook would hit the bottom of the box as it swung side to side. Plus his cord was frayed with bare wire showing! Today we put him in the cabinet from a different thrift store. Did I mention I replaced the button footpedal with a different Singer footpedal, oh dear, that was from a THIRD thrift store! Who wants to go shopping with me?

Mrs. Finch, I want to go shopping with you, but I am in No California! Wow, great job re-placing what was missing from thrift stores, but what about the machine that was in the cabinet you put Stitchy in? I love hearing the stories where someone 'completed' a machine using other machine parts, but I always wonder about the donor machines.

Mark, I have never seen a White like that one - really awesome looking machine.

Nancy

Thank you, Nancy.

Mark,

These are really neat machines, but the threading is not intuitive at all. The threading on my 659 gave me fits when I first got it home. BUT I won that one and it sews very well now.

Cathy

Hi all! Just bought this Monarch the other day, without knowing much about it. Thanks to your thread here and the Sew-Classic article and manual download, I know so much now!

I honestly just wanted it for decoration, and thought that if it worked, then that is a bonus. Well, she does work! I have some things to sort out with the presser foot pressure. I need to get a replacement spool pin (though a chopstick works well in a pinch - ha!).

Don't you just love the color?! It's like a seafoam green in real life...

It does look like your pressure foot knob at the top is messed up. Some of them pop up and you just pop it back down. That one looks like someone messed with it. Be very careful - that has a spring in there and when you let that nut go it may throw the pressure foot rod into the ceiling or hit you in the eye.

Are there some stampings on the bottom of that machine? Did you get the pressure foot pressure knob fixed? I love that color!

Just rescued this Montgomery Ward this morning. There was a 552 New Home too rusted to hope and a brown crinkle finish Domestic. They were getting ready to spray paint them some neon colors like the ones already on the shelf, even the bobbin case in place! Its all turning now and the electric will have to wait. The bobbin case from my 1941 Singer fits it. I have more than one foot pedal with the little plug in box so will test the motor soon.

Can you see the little four leaf clovers on the faceplate? They are on the round light cover too.

That MW clone is WONDERFUL - you will love it. Mine was made by Happy so I called it Happy Go Lucky...

Once I read a few pages back, I find a couple of people do have the 'clover' machine. The serial number is H259511. Can you compare your numbers so I can get an idea of the year? I'm guessing 1949. Hope to get her sewing soon. Yours are so pretty and clean.

My serial number is H610274, but that won't help you much with the year as I have no idea of the age of this one. Mine is in showroom condition except for a few minor pin scratches on the bed. The case does need recovering or the green cover glued back down. It sews well. For some reason it is my HST machine.