cabbagepatchkid

Miriam...thank you!!!! for this link. I just purchased a 401g, this week, and I have been looking for a manual for it. I have one for the 401a but the german version 401 is just a little bit different (bobbin winder). Mine has a little extension with 2 drawers.

Also, since you posted a picture of yours with a treadle belt I now know what that little rectangular thing, on the right hand side, is....a place for the treadle belt to run through.

Here is my first german machine:

miriam

I have the extention table for my 411G - isn't it neat?
Here is a link for a manual for the 411G - it should be the same. Did you know those will do a chain stitch???
http://www.singerco.com/uploads/down...2004a2bc25.pdf - this one is international I guess - no words... and another manual for a 411G http://www.ismacs.net/singer_sewing_...ine-manual.pdf
There isn't a whole bunch of difference between the 401 and the 411

miriam

There is a channel for the belt to go through in the back of the machine - look in the motor compartment.

cabbagepatchkid

Awesome....thanks so much!!!

Muv

Cathy - That's a really smart looking machine! I've never seen one of those extensions with drawers before. I'm sure you will get plenty of use from your machine, it is in such good condition.

grannysewer

Cathy, I posted my pic of my 401G on the vintage photos. They look the same, except you have the extention table. Would love to find one of those!

Charlee

Lots of muck to be sure, and that's AFTER I cleaned out some lint balls large enough to keep for pets and name!

That thing isn't an automatic tension release, I don't think. It doesn't SEEM to do much of anything. The "finger" of it is smooth and just rests against the tension disks, it doesn't move them, or hold them back in anyway. There is a thin felt between the first washer and the pair of disks.

This has, to date, been the most interesting machine! Not only is the cabinet unique to me, but parts of the machine are. It's just as curious to me that so much of the machine is like the Singer 115, which production stopped on in the early 1920's. (There were only about 300,000 model 115's made) After attempting to smooth out the clear coat using Skip's method of French Polishing, I find that it doesn't have a shellac coating, must be lacquer.

I did find with the scrutiny of a strong flashlight, that someone, most likely a very young someone, etched the initials "E.F." into the bed of the machine.

BoJangles

Ok you guys what is going on with this thread? All the posts from 21 to 41 are missing? I have tried, but it goes from post 20 to post 41 - what happened to posts 21 to 40, they are gone?

Nancy

Charlee

Nancy, they show up on my computer.... I dunno!!

miriam

ditto here