bignan 1935

It does not have bullet shape piece so feed dogs don't drop. I can just cover them or set stitch on 0. the need;e goes flat side to right and threads left to right.Of all the machines I have its the first like this ut it sews a good stitch

miriam

You can set your stitch length to 0 and cover it if you like. Usually there is a feed drop on the Japanese machines. The one in the picture has the button on the base below the stitch length lever - push the button and see what happens. A lot of times when you buy a machine that is frozen up.

J Miller

Not all clones have the knob on the bed with the bullet shaped piece to drop the dogs, some of them have a threaded knob on the rods and linkage underneath like this Commodore.

Here's a pic of the top:
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The underside:
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Just above and to the right of the bobbin drive you can see the slotted knob of the feed
dog dropping thumb screw. Turning it back and forth lowers and raises the feed dogs.
Most of the machine I have with this type of FD dropper came to me seized up. Lots of
cleaning and Tri-Flow later they work good.

Joe