OurWorkbench

Good for you. Thank you, for the background of the machine.

I truly wish you well. I wish I had one so I could give you measurements or pictures or something. I haven't seen many parts lists and/or images for machines other than Singer.

I hope you post "progress reports" as you go along. I admire your desire to restore this machine, even if Grandmother didn't like it. (I wonder why? Maybe it meant work to her, or maybe she wanted a different one....)

​Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

Mickey2

You have a reason to restore it, that's good. Most of us don't have access to a metal work shop, and then we mostly rely on the replacement parts we can find. I know a few who has refinished nickle and chrome parts on old 3 speed bikes and veteran cars, but so far I have not heard of any equivalent regarding sewing machines. A few here on QB has made parts to restore old industrials and intersting domestic models, so it's not unheard of. I have been very impressed with some of the new wooden bases I have seen on the Victorian Sweatshop forum. There are advice and help to be found if you should need it.

Best of luck with the project.

Massey850

I will defiantly post pictures as I progress. Today I decided to do some wire wheeling to she if there is paint under the rust. I did find black paint under the rust but unfortunately all the lighter paints rusted away. There is some left but the rust went under the paint so there is no way to save it. I don't really care because I'm planning on painting it. The hardest thing to do with machine would be all that beautiful, decorative paint work. Fortunately I am a fairly good painter. It will have to be all done by hand and I would probably make stencils too. Also I don't know why she didn't like it. All she said was that she didn't like it. She told me what she replaced the Brunswick with, I think it was either a white or a singer but I'm not sure and I don't have the machine.

Mickey2

It is possible to have decals made, but you need to have a machine in good condition to start with. There are machines for this, and I know it has been done for a single machine. Once someone has made it, it tends to be duplicated. You get the best quality if you get the right guy to do it. The easiest is to use a readily available decal set, but unless you are very lucky I don't think you will find origial Brunswick decals. Given time, patience and money, anything can be done. If you can identify the decal type under all the rust it's at least a start.

Cari-in-Oly

KeelerSales is the go-to for sewing machine decals. He just needs good clear pics to replicate. He's done mostly Singers but if someone has a Brunswick and can provide pics and specs...........
https://www.singerdecals.com/decals/

Thank you for taking this on. I get so tired of hearing, "It's no good", "It's junk, part it out", "that can't be saved",
if everyone thought that way there would be so few of the oldies left. And don't even get me started on the guys who turn the irons into ugly furniture and the machines into tractors and lamps.

Cari

Macybaby

it is a National, National made Brunswick. Brunswick is a badged name so it may have a different name on the machine.

You'll find several different looking machines with the Brunswick name on them.

Massey850

You're right, National did make a few brands but none of them look close enough to the Brunswick. The ones that look similar are the Damascus and the Romley A but there are things that are different. I don't know if I mentioned this but on the base of the machine and under the largest slotted bolt, there is a bit of light paint (You can kinda see it in the picture). It's very crude but the Brunswick has designs in all those places that vaguely match the designs. I also picked up some rust removers today. I decided on krud kutter. I put some on, waited 20 or so minutes and then wiped it off. Underneath was black paint that was cracked and ugly but no lighter stuff so just by removing the rust, It's impossible to narrow it down to a specific brand. The Brunswick is the closest and that's what I'll go with.

Massey850

Update time. Last weekend I used rust remover on the whole machine. This is how it came out
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There was a bit of lighter paint left on the table
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So as for the next update, I don't know when it could be. The next step is unsiezing the machine and taking it apart. It could take a while.

OurWorkbench

Thank you !!!!! What a difference so far. As someone reminded me -- "It took a long time to get in that condition" So it could take a while to bring it back.

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

Mickey2

It certainly has taken off a lot of rust, very good progress. What did you use? I guess it needs a good second soak in that stuff too free up the internal parts. This is one of those impossible projects you never thought would happen :- )