Collecting tips to make this Singer 28K run
12-07-2013, 03:02 PM
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Well, this is really good info to start with. Actually, this retrieval business reminds me of the old times when I had a second hand car and visited junk yards to buy parts when we both were broke! 
I promise to post pictures of my progresses. Now it's midnight here, so it'll have to wait for Monday, when I have the necessary tools.
I'm very happy to have found you. I'm going to study the recommended threads and organize the tasks and material requirements.
I promise to post pictures of my progresses. Now it's midnight here, so it'll have to wait for Monday, when I have the necessary tools.
I'm very happy to have found you. I'm going to study the recommended threads and organize the tasks and material requirements.
12-08-2013, 05:22 AM
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Sorry, I went to bed before you asked! I am in Northern Spain, and here has the machine always lived. So Veva arrived here at the same time than the anthropologist Ruth Mathilda Anderson, whose pictures I saw in an exhibition from the Hispanic American Society.
These ladies could have been Veva's fellow travelers:
My grandmother didn't sew. She was the family's weaver. They grew and harvested their own flax, for bedsheet and grain sacks. This could have been her:
These ladies could have been Veva's fellow travelers:
My grandmother didn't sew. She was the family's weaver. They grew and harvested their own flax, for bedsheet and grain sacks. This could have been her:
12-08-2013, 05:58 AM
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On these old black Japanned-finish machines, I’ve not ever used anything except Singer sewing machine oil or Lily White sewing machine oil to clean all surfaces, even underneath.
I would remove Veva from the wooden base, and before ever trying to loosen a screw or plate, I’d simply drizzle oil along the top of the arm and the bed, and then tip the machine to drizzle a small stream of oil on the sides and underside. I just put a few streaks on each surface, and leave it set for 24 hours in an old cookie baking pan to catch the drips. The oil will spread itself to cover the machine, or if not, I drizzle a little more onto the dry spots and let it set for another day. If Veva had a motor and a light, I would remove those prior to oiling, but I would leave the hand crank on her and oil it too.
Do you know how to remove the machine from the wooden base by loosening the two grub screws under the machine?
I have no idea what the availability of Singer 28 parts are in Spain.
CD in Oklahoma
I would remove Veva from the wooden base, and before ever trying to loosen a screw or plate, I’d simply drizzle oil along the top of the arm and the bed, and then tip the machine to drizzle a small stream of oil on the sides and underside. I just put a few streaks on each surface, and leave it set for 24 hours in an old cookie baking pan to catch the drips. The oil will spread itself to cover the machine, or if not, I drizzle a little more onto the dry spots and let it set for another day. If Veva had a motor and a light, I would remove those prior to oiling, but I would leave the hand crank on her and oil it too.
Do you know how to remove the machine from the wooden base by loosening the two grub screws under the machine?
I have no idea what the availability of Singer 28 parts are in Spain.
CD in Oklahoma
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