ThayerRags

Other than the solid disc hand wheel, belt guard with BW arm, motor, light, and a paint job, it looks like your conversion machine also received a “Darn-a-matic” (or equivalent) to release and restore presser foot tension with the touch of a finger back when sewers used the regular foot to darn (not many hopping feet back then), and it looks like it may also might have gotten either a “New Dial Tension Nut” #1076 (numbered) that “Dresses up old head immensely”, or a “Dialomatic” #1077, “To make the old tension like the latest!”. Same tension assembly, new nut.

Everybody loves a nut, the whole world....ooops, my mind wonders sometimes....

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miriam

No expenses barred eh?

ThayerRags

The life of a sewing machine mechanic has never been easy. We need all the help we can get.


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miriam

It even has a 1 amp motor! It's da bomb! I think it will do some serious sewing. I'm kind of bummed that it won't HC though.

ThayerRags

It will if you buy a wrap-around hand attachment for it.

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miriam

I googled wrap-around hand crank sewing machine attachment. WOW! But not exactly growing on trees around here.

ThayerRags

Mz Johnny posted photos of another version of a Singer Convertible, except it’s a model 28, over in the Vintage Sewing Machine Shop Thread. I believe that it has the same treadle stand as mine, but different top and machine.

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ThayerRags

It’s Singer Hand Attachment 81712 and accompanying Bobbin Winder 81717. I believe that there’s a different wrap-around hand attachment for the early Singer 15 Class of machines, but I don’t know what its number is.

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deplaylady

Nice looking machine - treadle or hand crank!

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I’ve about got our 1901 Singer 27K2 Hand/Treadle Convertible ready for service now. I had to make a Thread Guide Spring for the bobbin winder, and I’m still working out a problem with the upper thread tension assembly. With the tension together properly, the check spring isn’t allowed to move freely. I’m wondering if the center post is a replacement that doesn’t have the correct shoulder on it to keep the discs pushed out. Or maybe not the correct discs. I’ll be looking into that problem further.

I test-sewed it with the release plate on the wrong side of the discs to test-drive the shuttle position, and got a fairly decent stitch out of it using the hand crank. I’ll get a belt put on the treadle to try it out in the next few days.

I still need to find a drawer pull (or replacement bale) for one of the drawers, and get a leaf support put on it (I’m sure I have one in my stash, but I can’t find it), and then the treadle table will be in shape to use. I have left as much “age” on both the treadle table and machine as I could because I like the older “used” look on my antique machines. I go more for functionality. I think it displays well in our sewing room (ex-living room) just as it is.

We’ve yet to nickname this machine. I’m leaning towards “Connie” (short for Convertible) or “Jo” (the previous owner’s first name). My wife is thinking maybe “Comanche” (town where Jo lives). My wife really doesn’t care, as long as it works. She doesn’t have much use for sewing machines unless they work for her, no matter what they’re called or what they look like.

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