Although I have successfully replaced the plastic base a few times, I think it was by accident that I got it back on without damage yesterday. Now I know exactly how to manage that ridiculous little piece of plastic. Thank you!
8:05 pm. I have a model 1914 kenmore....she's awesome still. It has 3 sets of extra attachments; design embroidery cams, a buttonhole attachment with templates for about 25 different buttonholes and a monogramming attachment c with templates for the letters, large a small. Bought in 1975 or 75....she@was about 750 dollars back then! Still using her. Thanks for your videos!
I'm glad to see that I did the correct thing when reseating the plastic base. That can really mess with you if you aren't aware of it. I really wonder how important it really is, especially with the long screw just inches to the left. Great series, informative and helpful. Thanks again for sharing.
Do you have a video that you can talk a bit of this machine. I can only recognize the typical black singer machine. I don't know how identify the vintage color singer machine. What's is a best to have?
I was using my 158. Yesterday and it was a little stiff, I oiled up the top but was lazy and didn’t take the bottom off. This video has encouraged me to get it done already! Thankyou.
I have 158-1680 I purchased recently in an auction. The machine is turning on but the hand wheel is stiff I tried everything using hair dryer to loosen up the old oil clean ing top to bottom but stiff is still there can you give suggest me something
Keep working !’ It will eventually free up and you will jump with joy. Try running blower dryer on components while you’re pressing pedal … gently or else you’ll burn up the motor. You will see it nudge, then a little more, then all of the sudden it’s running like a champ! Don’t give up!!
Hi, I hope you don't mind an unrelated to this video question. I have just watched your video on the Necchi BU Mira. I have been gifted one in a treadle cabinet so I presumed it was a treadle but all the videos etc seem to have them being electric. I don't have a foot and can't see where one would plug in if I did have it. Is it possible it is a treadle? I'm very confused atm. Thankyou.
No one could blame you for being confused to find a BU Mira in a treadle table. But there is an explanation. When Necchi and many other brands entered the N. American market, they wanted to take business away from the biggest player in sewing machines which was Singer. Given that many folks had invested in tables already, they resisted having to purchase another one and so many competing sewing machine producers would copy Singer's bed dimesions. Because Singer was always slow to change specs on machines that were in production for decades (a good thing for us today), the openings in Singer sewing tables remained the same for a long time. The dimensions Singer used began during the treadle era and continued into the "electric power era". So, it is possible for many (not all) machines with that same dimension to fit into Singer tables both treadle and non treadle. For machines that fit, they don't care if they are powered by a treadle belt or an electric motor belt. Since ZigZag was not offered during the treadle era, some folks were keen to use a treadle table with a machine that was introduced later; like the Mira for example. Other folks would keep the motor attached to their machine and take off the motor belt and use the treadle belt instead. So, this is why your machine is in that table and yes, it should sew just fine if set up with a treadle belt.
Thankyou for replying. The cabinet looks very 1940s- 50s to me not your typical Singer table. The treadle foot has no name on it., quite generic. I'm in Australia so who knows when it arrived here and was placed in the cabinet. My husband had a look and said it isn't motorised at all so maybe it was removed. I'm going to take it to my machine guy for a service see if I can get it running.
Although I have successfully replaced the plastic base a few times, I think it was by accident that I got it back on without damage yesterday. Now I know exactly how to manage that ridiculous little piece of plastic. Thank you!
8:05 pm. I have a model 1914 kenmore....she's awesome still. It has 3 sets of extra attachments; design embroidery cams, a buttonhole attachment with templates for about 25 different buttonholes and a monogramming attachment c with templates for the letters, large a small. Bought in 1975 or 75....she@was about 750 dollars back then! Still using her. Thanks for your videos!
I'm glad to see that I did the correct thing when reseating the plastic base. That can really mess with you if you aren't aware of it. I really wonder how important it really is, especially with the long screw just inches to the left. Great series, informative and helpful. Thanks again for sharing.
Thank you!
Lovely video! Thank you. I will most definitely refer to it the next time I have to take my machine apart.
Wonderful!
Do you have a video that you can talk a bit of this machine. I can only recognize the typical black singer machine. I don't know how identify the vintage color singer machine. What's is a best to have?
If you search under the Videos tab on this channel, you will find many videos on Kenmores and this series of model specifically.
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I was using my 158. Yesterday and it was a little stiff, I oiled up the top but was lazy and didn’t take the bottom off. This video has encouraged me to get it done already! Thankyou.
I have 158-1680 I purchased recently in an auction. The machine is turning on but the hand wheel is stiff I tried everything using hair dryer to loosen up the old oil clean ing top to bottom but stiff is still there can you give suggest me something
Keep working !’ It will eventually free up and you will jump with joy. Try running blower dryer on components while you’re pressing pedal … gently or else you’ll burn up the motor. You will see it nudge, then a little more, then all of the sudden it’s running like a champ! Don’t give up!!
Can I buy a base for a machine installed on a sewing table?
How to remove all steel metal bottom cover ?
Hi, I hope you don't mind an unrelated to this video question. I have just watched your video on the Necchi BU Mira. I have been gifted one in a treadle cabinet so I presumed it was a treadle but all the videos etc seem to have them being electric. I don't have a foot and can't see where one would plug in if I did have it. Is it possible it is a treadle? I'm very confused atm. Thankyou.
No one could blame you for being confused to find a BU Mira in a treadle table. But there is an explanation. When Necchi and many other brands entered the N. American market, they wanted to take business away from the biggest player in sewing machines which was Singer. Given that many folks had invested in tables already, they resisted having to purchase another one and so many competing sewing machine producers would copy Singer's bed dimesions. Because Singer was always slow to change specs on machines that were in production for decades (a good thing for us today), the openings in Singer sewing tables remained the same for a long time. The dimensions Singer used began during the treadle era and continued into the "electric power era". So, it is possible for many (not all) machines with that same dimension to fit into Singer tables both treadle and non treadle. For machines that fit, they don't care if they are powered by a treadle belt or an electric motor belt. Since ZigZag was not offered during the treadle era, some folks were keen to use a treadle table with a machine that was introduced later; like the Mira for example. Other folks would keep the motor attached to their machine and take off the motor belt and use the treadle belt instead. So, this is why your machine is in that table and yes, it should sew just fine if set up with a treadle belt.
Thankyou for replying. The cabinet looks very 1940s- 50s to me not your typical Singer table. The treadle foot has no name on it., quite generic. I'm in Australia so who knows when it arrived here and was placed in the cabinet. My husband had a look and said it isn't motorised at all so maybe it was removed. I'm going to take it to my machine guy for a service see if I can get it running.