Vintage children's sewing machines
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]292713[/ATTACH]Here is my little jewel! We got her all oiled up - cleaned out a bunch of very large sized thread from around the hand wheel and she stitches a perfect stitch!
Nancy
Nancy
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I have been fiddling with the tension, just the screw part, and when I do about a two inch chain all but one look nice. Just a tiny little loop. I did not think to oil that! Silly me. I did (I hope), every where else. Are those two disc things supposed to be facing the same way? That's how they were when I cleaned them...
#25
Grayhare, I have the same machine, compleat but with green on the decals where yours is red. My DMIL got it as a child in the 1920's. I love it.
MisDixie
MisDixie
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I don't remember about the tension discs...I don't have one here right now to check, maybe someone with a machine on hand can look and tell you. Just my experience with fixing these up, I don't think they should be "spooned"...it won't hurt anything to take them off and put them back to back, then try sewing with it...most tension discs that I have seen are back to back..smooth surface touching smooth surface...they have to be this way so the thread won't bind or snag...it is the tightening of the spring that creates pressure on the 2 discs, so there is tension on the thread, but if they are spooned it just doesn't sound correct to me. Donna
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Nancy
#30
Anyone have an idea how I can get a manual or a copy of one for the 1922 model k-20?? Putting together a folio for my DS, who has Mom's k-20..been looking all over the net as well as ISMAC..but not finding one..
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