The Machine That I Fiddled With Today
#603
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Join Date: Oct 2013
Location: Centralia, WA, USA
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Triumph after hours seemingly spent grunting and groaning, heat guns, every solvent, oil in the book! Removed the balance wheel, drove out the taper pin. the flanged collar however, wasn't gonna come off, and I did NOT want to break another one. So channel-locks and Tri-Flow spray lube, and more muscle finally got it to budge. More spray, keep slowly turning, now it's FREE spinning!!! Happy dance!!
Steve, thanks for those pictures. Very simple setup (far simpler than my first thoughts) and it makes perfect sense now. Shouldn't be too hard to rig something that works and looks decent if I choose to.
Rodney
#604
Sometimes I can drive myself crazy. Like yesterday afternoon, for example.
I had a little project to do with my big stitcher using black thread. I had white thread in it, so I wound a bobbin and changed thread colors. I grabbed a piece of scrap material that I had used on the machine before to give it a little test-sew.
Every stitch that I tried to make ended up wrapped around the hook in a big mess that I had to keep cutting myself out of. I tried sewing in some scrap leather. Same thing.
I was about ready to pull my hair out, when I finally noticed that I had forgot to thread my upper thread through the take-up lever.....
CD in Oklahoma
I had a little project to do with my big stitcher using black thread. I had white thread in it, so I wound a bobbin and changed thread colors. I grabbed a piece of scrap material that I had used on the machine before to give it a little test-sew.
Every stitch that I tried to make ended up wrapped around the hook in a big mess that I had to keep cutting myself out of. I tried sewing in some scrap leather. Same thing.
I was about ready to pull my hair out, when I finally noticed that I had forgot to thread my upper thread through the take-up lever.....
CD in Oklahoma
#605
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Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Huntsville, AL
Posts: 2,609
Sometimes I can drive myself crazy. Like yesterday afternoon, for example.
I had a little project to do with my big stitcher using black thread. I had white thread in it, so I wound a bobbin and changed thread colors. I grabbed a piece of scrap material that I had used on the machine before to give it a little test-sew.
Every stitch that I tried to make ended up wrapped around the hook in a big mess that I had to keep cutting myself out of. I tried sewing in some scrap leather. Same thing.
I was about ready to pull my hair out, when I finally noticed that I had forgot to thread my upper thread through the take-up lever.....
CD in Oklahoma
I had a little project to do with my big stitcher using black thread. I had white thread in it, so I wound a bobbin and changed thread colors. I grabbed a piece of scrap material that I had used on the machine before to give it a little test-sew.
Every stitch that I tried to make ended up wrapped around the hook in a big mess that I had to keep cutting myself out of. I tried sewing in some scrap leather. Same thing.
I was about ready to pull my hair out, when I finally noticed that I had forgot to thread my upper thread through the take-up lever.....
CD in Oklahoma
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Sometimes I can drive myself crazy. Like yesterday afternoon, for example.
I had a little project to do with my big stitcher using black thread. I had white thread in it, so I wound a bobbin and changed thread colors. I grabbed a piece of scrap material that I had used on the machine before to give it a little test-sew.
Every stitch that I tried to make ended up wrapped around the hook in a big mess that I had to keep cutting myself out of. I tried sewing in some scrap leather. Same thing.
I was about ready to pull my hair out, when I finally noticed that I had forgot to thread my upper thread through the take-up lever.....
CD in Oklahoma
I had a little project to do with my big stitcher using black thread. I had white thread in it, so I wound a bobbin and changed thread colors. I grabbed a piece of scrap material that I had used on the machine before to give it a little test-sew.
Every stitch that I tried to make ended up wrapped around the hook in a big mess that I had to keep cutting myself out of. I tried sewing in some scrap leather. Same thing.
I was about ready to pull my hair out, when I finally noticed that I had forgot to thread my upper thread through the take-up lever.....
CD in Oklahoma
I think I am getting the Halloween crazies.
#608
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Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: dallas tx.
Posts: 5,172
I so enjoy sitting here and looking at machines, and hearing you all fixing them. I try not to butt in, but here I go. You all are so machine intelligent, I love to hear what you have to say on how to fix them all. Thanks so much. Barny
#609
I didn’t really have a sewing project for my Singer 319W Treadle, but the last time that I used it with the original disc balance wheel on it, I had decided that before I used it again I wanted to switch to the spoked wheel that I had on my 306W that is now sort of side-lined due to getting the 319. I got it done yesterday.
The black spoked wheel is one of the new after-market wheels from China that I got a few years ago. The center bore is machined incorrectly, so the wheel rim wobbles badly when it is turned. I decided to use it on my 306 to see if it would work, and it did.
To make the bobbin winder work without modifying the winder, I cut a strip of vegetable-tanned tooling leather to make a collar for the BW tire to run on. I cut the leather strip about a quarter of an inch short of the distance around the balance wheel hub, connected the ends with a metal treadle belt connector, whacked the connector with a hammer on an anvil to flatten it into the leather as much as possible, and then forced the leather strip onto the hub of the wheel for a tight fit.
The collar works fine, if you don’t mind the bit of sound and vibration of the rubber tire going over the belt clip every revolution. On the treadle, that hasn’t been a problem for me, although the off-drilled bore of this particular wheel can trip the automatic release of the winder before it gets full enough sometimes. I just hold it with a finger to finish filling the bobbin. The benefit is that I can move the wheel from one machine to another without having to modify each machine’s bobbin winder.
CD in Oklahoma
The black spoked wheel is one of the new after-market wheels from China that I got a few years ago. The center bore is machined incorrectly, so the wheel rim wobbles badly when it is turned. I decided to use it on my 306 to see if it would work, and it did.
To make the bobbin winder work without modifying the winder, I cut a strip of vegetable-tanned tooling leather to make a collar for the BW tire to run on. I cut the leather strip about a quarter of an inch short of the distance around the balance wheel hub, connected the ends with a metal treadle belt connector, whacked the connector with a hammer on an anvil to flatten it into the leather as much as possible, and then forced the leather strip onto the hub of the wheel for a tight fit.
The collar works fine, if you don’t mind the bit of sound and vibration of the rubber tire going over the belt clip every revolution. On the treadle, that hasn’t been a problem for me, although the off-drilled bore of this particular wheel can trip the automatic release of the winder before it gets full enough sometimes. I just hold it with a finger to finish filling the bobbin. The benefit is that I can move the wheel from one machine to another without having to modify each machine’s bobbin winder.
CD in Oklahoma
#610
CD, is there a big difference in the ease of treadling with the spoked wheel? I find treadling mine is not too bad when doing a straight stitch (which is mostly what I do) but that the treadling is hard going when I use the fashion cams or keys. I do have some treadle heads just sitting on shelves so I could steal a wheel from one of them.
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