zeke Posted May 1, 2016 Report Share Posted May 1, 2016 Het kids. Zeke here. Today I spent a good part of the day working on two older sewing machine. One was a white 221 & the other a White Rotary 77. The 77 wasn't to hard to work on. Tension issues & oiling, then done. Now the singer 221 was a whole different story. I had to change out the needle bar and bushing. What a pain in the keyster. Ended up hammering out the bushing with the old needle bar since it was toast anyways. Started out using a hunk of wood to start the new bushing in place from below. Got to a point that all the wood was doing was splitting. Next phase. Channel locks and a very hard piece of plastic. From below I pressed the bushing in the rest of the way. That took about 55 minutes. For the next 4 hours I had to hone out the bushing to except the needle bar properly. I used a piece of rolled up 600 grit emery paper. Such fun I had. Good thing I had some music to listen to. I finally got the needle bar in & re-timed the machine. I found some scrap fabrics & started to sew. It's always nice when things work out at the end. I put it back in it's case and started to clean up. It's time for a Redds strawberry ale. Yum. Zeke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cegates Posted May 1, 2016 Report Share Posted May 1, 2016 Sounds like a great day in an odd sort of way. I am super jealous of your skills. How did you learn to do all that? Carol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RunningThreads Posted May 1, 2016 Report Share Posted May 1, 2016 Zeke Where did you find the bushing and needle bar? One of my customers has a black one with slop in the needle bar. I inquired at vintage singers and with Glenn Williams and couldn't find anyone to tell me if a bushing was even available. Nigel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeke Posted May 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2016 I'll have to dig that info up. I know I didn't throw it out. It's somewhere in my stuff. I do know i found him on eBay. And Carol, I guess I'm just good fixing things. Always have been. Once when I was about 5 my pop gave me his inoperable big Ben alarm clock to play with. When he returned from his flight back east I gave it back to him with 5 or 6 gears that didn't make it back in the clock. It worked and kept perfect for about another10 years. Who would have guessed, uh. Zeke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted July 5, 2016 Report Share Posted July 5, 2016 We bought a New Home, Memory Craft 7000, mainly for the custom built oak cabinet, which has the swing out and up shelf for the Serger. What a Honey. But for the Ruby, its the best machine I have. All the others are used machines.. when I bought them.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RitaR Posted July 5, 2016 Report Share Posted July 5, 2016 Nigel, check with ISMACs they often list pieces for these old machines, also with a serial # they can date most machines and tell you where they were made. A great site to keep up with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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