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The Boy Scout quilt is wonderful. You did a fantastic job.
I know he will cherish it.
Jan on 446

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Originally Posted by lee231

Mpeters1200

Yes, that triangle thing is a thread cutter, have the same thing on mine. Lee

Ok. I wonder if it's dull or I'm not using it right. Do you pull the thread into it and then down the edge to cut? I'm going to dig out my manual today and see if there's something in it.

Thanks for the reply!

Okay here is something pretty interesting, I worked on a 66-1 last week and when I polished out the badge I noticed something different about it. The badge was made of Copper! Out of more than 200+ Singers I have worked on I have never seen a copper badge. I really liked the different color of the badge and now I am on the lookout for one as we speak.

So I am wondering how many of you have machines with the copper badges on them and if yours has one what model and year is it?

Billy

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Originally Posted by Lostn51

Wow You guys have been posting away!! I just hopped on and I had to read 20 something pages....

I will be glad when I can come in here and spend some time with you guys I really miss being in here. But I have to take care of business first before I can play. :|

Billy

Nice to hear from you again. But, did you have to make it so plain that we are 'playing'???

I say that because I have been spending sewwww much time on here, "I" haven't been getting anything done.

Well, that is... as soon as I get my FW up and running again. That will be for another post.
:-D

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Originally Posted by SewExtreme

Nothing wrong with playing around but between the house repairs on 2 homes and now my daughters house (5' of water in that one for almost 2 weeks) and working on the machine backlog I have I am looking forward to playing around!!

Billy

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Originally Posted by Lostn51

I can tell by just looking at it after it is polished. Brass is a gold color and Copper is a Peachy pink in color like your copper pots and pans or a new penny.

Billy

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Originally Posted by Kitzone

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Originally Posted by SnowQuilt

I have a Necchi SuperNova I think the motor is going bad on it. Can you still get motors for these? Will another motor from a different Necchi work? May seem like a strange question but I love the machine and really hate to gid rid of her. :)

SnowQuilt, Although I've not done this on a Necchi, I don't know why you couldn't perform a motorectomy.... Depending

Judy

When researching treadling zig-zag machines, I came across someone's blog that had photo of a pink Necchi Supernova in treadle. You may want to give that a try too.

Billy sorry to hear that your daughter's home has 5 feet of water.

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Originally Posted by miriam

Miriam, is your sister's machine the little 158.104? I took the machine to Girls' Night Out last night to clean and use the machine. It will sew, it was pretty clean, but I can't get the needle out of the right hand position. I found a manual on-line last night that mentions nothing about being able to change the needle position so I think the needle is stuck in the right zig of the zig zag. The machine will stitch a straight stitch with the needle on the right side, but it won't do a zig zag. Nothing appears broken, the machine looks really good, but I know that needle should move over to the middle. There is a single hole needle plate with the machine and a straight stitch foot -- neither can be used now - needle would hit. I have the zig zag foot and zig zag plate on now. I also can't get the clutch to disengage to wind a bobbin. I wound the bobbin with the needle going ninety miles an hour, but I can't turn the wheel to disengage the needle so the bobbin winder can wind. In the manual I printed out, some of the 158's had the push in wheel to disengage the needle, some had the wheel that turns! Mine does not push in, should turn, but does neither? Any suggestions? I am not familiar with the Kenmore machines!

Nancy

When I work on one I find... the first thing I do is tear it down and clean old dead oil out of any moving part with kerosene - careful of anything plastic, belts, wires & motors - OLD DEAD OIL is probably a lot of the problem - don't force anything to move until you do that - any rust? Go over it as many times as it takes. Then reassemble and new SEWING MACHINE oil only. I don't know if that machine has any plastic parts but always look and see if they are broken and be careful when cleaning them. Are the belts ok?

Yep, did all that! I actually spent 2.5 hours last night at our monthly Girls Night Out cleaning thread out of a FW that would not sew! It had probably 12 inches of thread wrapped in and around the hook/race! I didn't get to spend as much time as I had hoped on my new Kenmore, but I did take it apart and clean and oil it. I always do that first. The machine is not rusty anywhere. After soaking the wheel/clutch with oil all morning, my DH finally got the clutch to turn -- it was just screwed on so tight he was afraid he'd break it by forcing the clutch! Now he has the machine taken apart trying to figure out why it won't do the zag part of the zig! He said someone has messed with the machine - he got it finally to sewed in the middle position, which will be nice as I want the grandkids to be able to use this machine because it has a reverse, but it still won't zig zag. Still working on the machine! I don't give up easily on a machine!~

Nancy