Introducing "Helen" a sweet little Swedish machine with a green kind of crinkle finish. I went to look at an old portable Singer in a wooden box with a key. The Singer was not to my taste, so the vendor offered me this one.
Serial Number C1016591
The bobbin winder.
The throatplate and needle bar.
This lever controls stitch length and reverse.
Accessories.
This machine required a good cleaning and oiling when I brought it home. It is very heavy and sews lovely precise straight stitches forward and reverse.
1951 is the year printed in the manual.
I love it. It is so much like my Singer 127 treadle, right down to the shuttle and bobbin (btw, found an ebay vendor with a good deal on the bobbins). Helen looks terrific and I bet she sews like a dream! Lane
ReplyDeleteTammy, I recently acquired a Nordic version of this machine and have no idea how to wind the bobbin! Help??? Also it seems to be running really fast and I have no idea how to control the speed.Would it be possible to get a copy of your manual? thanks, Karen Sewell
ReplyDeleteHello Karen, I'm sorry I no longer have that manual as it went with the machine in 2011 and I did not make an electronic copy. However how to wind the bobbin is the same as any other shuttle bobbin. I wrote about this on a treadle machine here
Deletehttp://tammyscraftemporium.blogspot.com/2011/09/bernard-stoewer-treadle-sewing-machine.html
there is a utube video here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4PhAT--SKM this manual is for a shuttle bobbin
http://needlebar.org/main/sident/1271283.pdf
hope this helps you out.