Massey850

Well this is what I found of the table. Its a bit broken but repairable. I'm still missing some smaller parts that broke off so I'm gonna keep looking for those. I didn't find the cabinet so I'll keep looking for that. If I can't find it, I'll make a simple table top for it. Because I found almost all of the table, I won't make the portable wooden base like I mentioned earlier, I'll fix up the old table and use it instead.
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OurWorkbench

Thank you for your updates. You sure have your work cut out for you.


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

OurWorkbench

Haven't heard about this machine lately, How is it coming?


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

Mickey2

Is this the same treadle base? Here's one too. With a bit of luck parts for treadles can turn up at give away prices, newly cleaned, painted and oiled always cost more.

Massey850

Here's just a quick update. Soon after my last post winter came into full effect. My shop where i work on the machine isn't heated either so its been just too cold to do anything with it. I suppose what I could do is de-rust the parts I do have off the machine. This was just a quick update to tell you that I'm not dead and neither is this project. Hopefully it warms up quickly in March and I can get back to work on this machine.

Seb58

It's a bit off topic but I'm just back from my mum's where I took a look at her ancient treadle sewing machine that was sitting unused in the living room and it is this exact model, decal and all except that there is a screwed on plaque on the horizontal arm with the brand "Simplex" and on the inside of the vertocal arm there is a "made in USA [sic]" inscription in decal.
I don't know about elsewhere in the world but in France, Simplex is a brand still known nowadays for manufacturing bicycle parts (pedalier and so on)

OurWorkbench

Thank you for the update.

Also thank you for the tip about the torch. Sometimes we forget about some of the more extreme measures to loosen things up. We got a "new" used press brake at work that there was a bolt (over an inch in diameter) that was stuck and Blaster wasn't working, I mentioned a torch. Tried a vintage blow dryer that got so hot that it turned itself off. So out came the torch. Just heating the top portion, one could see the blaster coming out the other side. I didn't time it or see the metal change colors, but it finally moved.


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

Massey850

Well, It warmed up a lot this weekend and I had a chance to do some work on the sewing machine again. I got a few more parts off. I have a question. Is there something that holds the flywheel/ handwheel to the shaft. I have my hand wheel turning but it doesn't want to come off. I thought I should ask before I break something.

Also the torch is a very useful tool when it comes to freeing stuck or frozen parts. Its good that it worked for you.

OurWorkbench

I couldn't find a picture of one my machines from the hand wheel end and with the stop motion knob off, I know that some of them are different. A good description of the knob that needs to come off first on a Singer machine can be found at https://oldsingersewingmachineblog.c...utch-part-one/ I am not affiliated I think it may be two parts. It appears that you have something similar.

A word of caution about a pulley puller trying to get the hand wheel off after the stop motion -- if it is still stuck, you could break the spokes. LeonF just had a thread about what happens when someone had tried and ruined the hand wheel. VS White clutch removal That is a little different stop motion clutch than what I believe you have on your machine.


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

KalamaQuilts

good job on even recognizing it for what it was