Should I consider this OK, and move onto the other issues in my sewing room?Ĥ. This morning, I rotated the horizontal shaft 180 degrees, and the needle is fully down, just before the boat arrives. (It was late, I shouldn't have been working on it.) I discovered that the needle was fully down about the time that the rear of the shuttle was passing go. Last night I was cleaning and oiling, etc, and when I noticed that the feed dogs weren't moving (and the shuttle wasn't transversing), I investigated and found the "differential" separated.Īt the time, I just loosened the set screws on the horizontal shaft, and slid it to the left to engage the vertical shaft.
The big but fixed issue that leads to a question: Timing. I reassembled, and believe it to be right, but I'm hoping someone can confirm.ģ. The second issue I introduced: Then I pulled this takeup lever, I neglected to notice which position the spring was in. I think that this will only fit one way, but my question was: is it possible that I could have it 180 degrees from correct? Or do I need to stop worrying? Basically, can it be on the back swing instead of the fore swing if I installed the needlebar wrong, or is it even possible?Ģ. First problem I introduced: While disassembling the face plate to clean and oil, I managed to have the needle bar drop out, and so didn't see where it was sitting on the erm. In the meantime, I may have introduced 2 small problems, and found one really big one, that one's fixed but related to a question.ġ. so I got the machine home last night, cleaned it up, and oiled it. I can find so little information online for it, and it's a little foreign to me. Mine has the cutest little 'tick, tick, tick' sound when I hand crank it.I'm so sorry for the deluge of questions. I hope you can get a lot of enjoyment out of your machine. I'm thinking mine is from the late 1800's to early 1900's, maybe 1890 from what I saw of one on the net that they dated as 1890. Maybe if I spoke German and could go on some German sites, I could find out more about my machine. I am unable to find much about mine either. I'm thinking that the metal rectangle with all the numbers is something about what needle to use with what weight thread, but could be wrong. It doesn't have a hand crank as far as I can see. I'm guessing that yours was a treadle machine. It looks like yours was in a cabinet of some kind with the hinges on the back side of the machine. Mine is in a wooden base and has the top to match. Does yours have the tension on the front of the machine? Do you have a shuttle and shuttle bobbin with it? The shuttle bobbin winder looks like mine does, rather than the pictures of the Singer 12's that I have seen. Your machine looks a lot like my Gritzner hand crank machine that I got last month. Joyce, I'm very happy for your getting the machine. Any further info you folks might have would be greatly appreciated. When I did a Google search I found a number of items in Russian listing similar machines for sale in Rubles! - This is about as far as I've been able to get. There is another silver plate by the bobbin winder that has "QLT 339" at the top followed by a chart of numbers (Nos.
The seller also gave me a case top that she said went with the machine but I don't think it is from a sewing machine (maybe an olde typewriter?). There are chips of mother of pearl inlaid into the bed of the machine that circle the gold deals. Eventually Kohler established his own company.
This says that Kohler, along with Dietrich and Winselmann, started a sewing machine company in 1871 at Altenburg, Germany. It is very similar to the Tryer model on this page: If I shine a light on the arm I can barely read "Emil Forst?, Luben" (maybe Forstry). The only number I find is below the bobbin winder and is 609249. There is a silver plate that reads "Kohler Maschine, Bestes, Deutsches Fabrikat". I picked up this little half size machine today and am trying to identify it.