This machine had an E17 base fixture in it. That is the larger screw base common on sewing machine light fixtures. E12 is the smaller screw base and BA15D is the 2 pin base.
Thanks for the information on this sewing machine. Question: I have a similar machine but the bobbin winder does not spin freely, it's bound up. I tried putting oil in the pinhole but that didn't seem to help much. Is there a way to take that apart? Thanks.
There isn't an easy way to get it apart, but if it's moving it is easy to get it freed up. Take it off the machine and remove the rubber tire. It should just be held on with one screw (there may be a spring behind the screw). Once it's off the machine, put the shaft where the bobbin goes in a cordless drill. With the bobbin winder chucked up in the drill you can apply oil and penetrating fluid while you spin it with the drill. The spinning and oiling will wash all the old goop out of it until it spins freely again. If it's seized up completely, you can dip it in a pot of boiling water to heat it up. The water won't be hot enough to hurt the finish, but it will warm the whole piece up enough to help melt the goo inside. Then take the hot part and apply oil and penetrating fluid so it will draw that as it cools. A few heat, oil, cool cycles will usually free them up enough to spin with a drill and finish oiling it up until it spins freely again. Removing the tire keeps it from getting all oily and having to clean the oil off so it will turn the bobbin winder.
That worked. It took a bit to figure out how the spring assembly went back together and wasn't easy getting it placed where it belonged. The next hardest part was getting the clutch working correctly so it would free up the wheel to spin the bobbin loader without running the needle. Eventually it all went together. Thanks for the video, it was a great help!!!
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This machine had an E17 base fixture in it. That is the larger screw base common on sewing machine light fixtures. E12 is the smaller screw base and BA15D is the 2 pin base.
Thanks for the information on this sewing machine. Question: I have a similar machine but the bobbin winder does not spin freely, it's bound up. I tried putting oil in the pinhole but that didn't seem to help much. Is there a way to take that apart? Thanks.
There isn't an easy way to get it apart, but if it's moving it is easy to get it freed up. Take it off the machine and remove the rubber tire. It should just be held on with one screw (there may be a spring behind the screw). Once it's off the machine, put the shaft where the bobbin goes in a cordless drill. With the bobbin winder chucked up in the drill you can apply oil and penetrating fluid while you spin it with the drill. The spinning and oiling will wash all the old goop out of it until it spins freely again.
If it's seized up completely, you can dip it in a pot of boiling water to heat it up. The water won't be hot enough to hurt the finish, but it will warm the whole piece up enough to help melt the goo inside. Then take the hot part and apply oil and penetrating fluid so it will draw that as it cools. A few heat, oil, cool cycles will usually free them up enough to spin with a drill and finish oiling it up until it spins freely again.
Removing the tire keeps it from getting all oily and having to clean the oil off so it will turn the bobbin winder.
@@henrybangsberg2187 Thanks for the response. Good idea, I'll give it a try.
That worked. It took a bit to figure out how the spring assembly went back together and wasn't easy getting it placed where it belonged. The next hardest part was getting the clutch working correctly so it would free up the wheel to spin the bobbin loader without running the needle. Eventually it all went together. Thanks for the video, it was a great help!!!