My grandmother had a singer that had been converted to an electric machine too. The lever you have, which controls the speed of sewing, is actually meant to point downwards (and the machine therefore has to sit much closer to the edge of the table). The lever is controlled with your knee pushing to the right. Great exercise for your legs as it's exactly the muscles used help stabilise you and prevent falls as you age. This brought back such a wave of nostalgia to see the knee press controller and made me fondly remember and miss my grandmother. I think you've got a Singer 66 or similar there. From memory the thread path is slightly different from how you've described. It goes through the tension discs, then under the hook to the left. Then it goes through the thread uptake lever and wraps around to the left to clip into the little hook on the left hand side, then as you've described it goes through another hook and through the needle. I love vintage machines so much. Especially pulling them apart and cleaning them. Wonderful video. Thank you! I love all of your videos and am currently bingeing and saving them so I can re-watch. 😊 Very grateful for all of your work documenting great techniques.
Oh! I just bought a converted antique machine that sounds just like that- I’d never seen a knee lever before. My mom has a true blue treadle machine and I have a 1950s ish electric machine and we both have a modern machine but the knee lever was so cool and in such a cool cabinet I HAD to buy it 😂. Now I wanna give it another go to use!
I just inherited my mother in law’s 1970’s Husqvarna 2000 SL 6440 and am setting out on the adventure of learning how to use it. The explanation of tension was immensely helpful. I feel less intimidated and better equipped to problem solve any problem I’m encountering with my stitches. Thank you.
The singer 201k needle is threaded backwards right to left not left to right as normal modern machines and the flat part of the needle needs to be on the left hand side. It confused me forever when I first got mine. I have one as a hand crank and boy she flys fast making a quilt I’m too old school to covert to electric I prefer her hank crank ticking it’s so therapeutic
Appreciate your explanation on correcting thread tension as well as Bobbin tension. Very helpful
My grandmother had a singer that had been converted to an electric machine too. The lever you have, which controls the speed of sewing, is actually meant to point downwards (and the machine therefore has to sit much closer to the edge of the table). The lever is controlled with your knee pushing to the right. Great exercise for your legs as it's exactly the muscles used help stabilise you and prevent falls as you age.
This brought back such a wave of nostalgia to see the knee press controller and made me fondly remember and miss my grandmother.
I think you've got a Singer 66 or similar there. From memory the thread path is slightly different from how you've described. It goes through the tension discs, then under the hook to the left. Then it goes through the thread uptake lever and wraps around to the left to clip into the little hook on the left hand side, then as you've described it goes through another hook and through the needle.
I love vintage machines so much. Especially pulling them apart and cleaning them.
Wonderful video. Thank you! I love all of your videos and am currently bingeing and saving them so I can re-watch. 😊 Very grateful for all of your work documenting great techniques.
@@siobhancapell thanks for the explanation, super helpful!
Oh! I just bought a converted antique machine that sounds just like that- I’d never seen a knee lever before. My mom has a true blue treadle machine and I have a 1950s ish electric machine and we both have a modern machine but the knee lever was so cool and in such a cool cabinet I HAD to buy it 😂. Now I wanna give it another go to use!
Wow, I had no idea you could adjust the bottom thread tension as well. I guess I was lucky enough that my stiches looked good, so far 🤣
I just inherited my mother in law’s 1970’s Husqvarna 2000 SL 6440 and am setting out on the adventure of learning how to use it. The explanation of tension was immensely helpful. I feel less intimidated and better equipped to problem solve any problem I’m encountering with my stitches. Thank you.
Super helpful, thank you!
The singer 201k needle is threaded backwards right to left not left to right as normal modern machines and the flat part of the needle needs to be on the left hand side. It confused me forever when I first got mine. I have one as a hand crank and boy she flys fast making a quilt I’m too old school to covert to electric I prefer her hank crank ticking it’s so therapeutic
Most of the cheaper sewing machines nowadays have problems sewing more than one thin layer of fabric and so won't work with jeans for example.