{"id":2286,"date":"2012-10-01T13:40:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T03:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scheong.wordpress.com\/?p=2286"},"modified":"2012-10-01T13:40:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T03:40:26","slug":"return-of-the-singer-128-sewing-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.throughouthistory.com\/?p=2286","title":{"rendered":"Return of the Singer 128 Sewing Machine!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Eeeek!!<\/p>\n

It’s alright. Don’t panic…It’s just a sewing-machine.<\/p>\n

A while back, I wrote this article<\/a> about a Singer 128 handcrank sewing-machine that I bought in London for a song.<\/p>\n

Well, the machine arrived home today, and I spent the last few hours cleaning it, oiling it and lubricating it. It sews, it runs, it works!<\/p>\n

And I even found a replacement slide-plate for it. This is before:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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And this is After:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Ain’t it purdy?<\/p>\n

The eagle-eyed among you will notice that the two slide-plates do not match…<\/p>\n

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I could purchase an ORIGINAL Singer 28-series slide-plate. I could even buy a brand-new reproduction one. But I found that one in a box of sewing-machine nicknacks which I purchased for the heady price of $10 at the flea-market. One piece out of probably a hundred attachments, nuts, bolts, springs, feet and god knows what else…it cost me probably one cent!<\/p>\n

Not bad!<\/p>\n

Going against my own advice in my sewing-machine posts, I actually went ahead with my needle-nosed tweezers and ripped out the old, red felt wick which, as you’ll recall, is inside every bobbin-mechanism, to stop friction and abrasion, and to keep the mechanism lubricated.<\/p>\n

I did this for two reasons:<\/p>\n

1. The old felt was completely TRASHED!<\/p>\n

2. It’s very easy to replace the felt wick on old Singer 28-series machines like this.<\/p>\n

All you need is a TEENSY scrap of fabric, or some cotton wool. Roll it into a little ball or sausage, and then just stuff it into the hole where the felt wick goes. You may need to use your needle-nose tweezers or a chopstick or something, to shove it down the hole properly, but it’s not that hard.<\/p>\n

So long as the replacement wick (made out of whatever material it was you chose) is sufficiently absorbent, you can replace the old one with no problems at all!<\/p>\n

The only thing I need to do now, is to buy a new case-lid for it. If I can find one anywhere!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Eeeek!! It’s alright. Don’t panic…It’s just a sewing-machine. A while back, I wrote this article about a Singer 128 handcrank sewing-machine that I bought in London for a song. Well, the machine arrived home today, and I spent the last few hours cleaning it, oiling it and lubricating it. It sews, it runs, it works! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antique-vintage-sewing-machines"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72J5O-AS","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.throughouthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.throughouthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.throughouthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.throughouthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.throughouthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.throughouthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.throughouthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.throughouthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.throughouthistory.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}