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Sewing, Vintage machine, repair restore.
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The beautiful machine with Mother of pearl decoration has been testing my patience, first problem was rust, lots of rust on mechanism including inside the head, the shuttle took hours of careful polishing to fix. I wanted to sew, fitted a DBX1 needle,
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Sewing, Sewing Machine Repair.
This morning I was able to save a sewing machine from a recycling/destruction
center.
It would have been a sad loss.
A Quelle labelled Super Nützstich 314, I think made in Japan by Toyota ca 1970 ??. Mostly metal construction
Cleaned then oiled copiously.
The drive re
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Vintage Sewing, Repair a Riccar 528 Automatic
Purchased defective, Cleaned Lubricated.
Needed a replacement hook drive gear.
Hook assembly, jamming,, stripped, cleaned. Lost a tiny spring, made a replacement.
Replaced the motor with one from another Riccar, it ran very rough.
The MB540 PU Drive be
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Vintage sewing machine repair.
Update. The machine sews again
An important detail common to many sewing machines.
On the no name vintage machine the drive roller was hard to free up, warmth and oil plus an overnight wait helped.
I cleaned and de rusted the rest of the head and mechanism using hot
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The beautiful machine with Mother of pearl decoration has been testing my patience, first problem was rust, lots of rust on mechanism including inside the head, the shuttle took hours of careful polishing to fix. I wanted to sew, f…
Hermes Versand. VORSICHT.
Ich war dumm genug ein komputer mit Hermes zu Versenden.
Steht zeit 04.06 was vermütlich Verlören/Geklaut Heißt.
I was offered the antique work of art below, the owner wants 450 Euro and pick up, no haggling.
That is around 525 usd.
What a Dreamer, such machines are usually for free and the taker often a scrap dealer.
More pictures in the ad.
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Sewing Machine Repair.
A Riccar was for spares or repair. 10 Euro. I risked it for spares.
This one is being stripped for usable parts as non repairable.
The machines have a string and clip timing belt between top and bottom shaft.
First …
Sewing, Sewing machine Purchase,Repair
Please check carefully for cracked gears
common on older Riccar and Bernina
Smaller gear, hook drive Riccar.
Larger gear, pattern disks drive Bernina
Vertical gear cracked is also common.
Decent Parts…
Vintage sewing machine repair.
Update. The machine sews again
An important detail common to many sewing machines.
On the no name vintage machine the drive roller was hard to free up, warmth and oil plus an overnight wait helped.
I cleane…
Vintage Sewing Machine Repair Restoration
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The top of the machine, maker unknown, it was an OEM model for a dealer or distributor and never got a logo.
The badge is neutral.
Apart from a few paint chips and a missing piece of mother …
Vintage Sewing Machine Repair Restoration
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On the surface what looked like a very nice old sewing machine, then I tried to turn it, solid seized. Looked underneath rust everywhere, took off the rear cover more rust. Took off the hand…
Sewing Vintage sewing Machine repair.
A Winselman Titan 3/4 size transverse shuttle machine.
Manufacture of Winselman machines was started in the town of Altenberg
Germany by Gustav Winselmann in 1892,
Production finished in 1927.
The ma…
Sewing, Sewing Machine Repair.
This morning I was able to save a sewing machine from a recycling/destruction
center.
It would have been a sad loss.
A Quelle labelled Super Nützstich 314, I think made in Japan by Toyota ca 1970 ??. Mostly m…
Vintage Sewing, Repair a Riccar 528 Automatic
Purchased defective, Cleaned Lubricated.
Needed a replacement hook drive gear.
Hook assembly, jamming,, stripped, cleaned. Lost a tiny spring, made a replacement.
Replaced the motor with one …
Sewing, Vintage 1969 Riccar 528 Automatic. A Japanese made machine.
The machine has some paint chips, the plastic motor cover is yellowed. A job for Peroxyd on a sunny day.
The 528 can do a lot of fancy patterns due to having stepped cam…
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