Welcome
Thanks for welcoming me to the group! My husband & I live in Cornwall PA. We collect old sewing machines - treadles, handcranks, old electrics - and finally acquired a Wheeler & Wilson #9 treadle in
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Katharine Retherford
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#3712
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Re: Introduction
Your last one you mentioned is your best one too! Mary In California 9W7 bagel bobbin
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MB Freeman
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#3711
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Re: Pollack & Schmidt la silencieuuse won't pick up the lower thread
The upper tension on all family machines, except for a few very early ones, is applied by a wheel or pulley tension rather than disc tension. On a disc ension, such as Singer, the thread is pulled
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Miller Fulks
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Re: Pollack & Schmidt la silencieuuse won't pick up the lower thread
thank you Miller, yesterday I? was so sleepy: I read instructions many times,? always one learns something.? ?sometime? one produces new doubts. for example I learned the number of needles, I
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viavillecinque .
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#3709
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Re: Introduction
Hi & welcome to you both; I got into lod sewing machines also through my Wife's quilting, but not near so early in life. In fact I was 67 years old & retired when I started. I too became infatuated
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Miller Fulks
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Re: Introduction
good morning!? I'm here from a few weeks
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viavillecinque .
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Introduction
Hi, all. My name is Marty and I am delighted, at Miller's suggestion, to join this group of Wheeler and Wilson sewing machine enthousiasts. I live in South Louisiana and my wife has been quilting
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Marinus Quist
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#3706
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Re: Pollack & Schmidt la silencieuuse won't pick up the lower thread
Hi; Here are a couple of copies of manuals for the W&W curved needle machines from different points in time. Both show how to set the needle & place the bobbin in the correct orientation & to thread
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Miller Fulks
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#3705
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Pollack & Schmidt la silencieuuse won't pick up the lower thread
do you know this machine.? it seems it is a german, european, clone of a wheeler and wilson 3 that is very rare in italy.? circa 1880, 82, it seems to me. I found that in a flea market, no
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viavillecinque .
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#3704
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Re: D9
Go on ¡°ismacs.net¡± or .com? They have a beautiful copy.
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Diana Burrow <mygranna@...>
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#3703
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Re: D9
Thank you for this information on the difference between a 9 and and D9. I don¡¯t have a manual yet and haven¡¯t had much time to work on this machine. Hopefully, after the holidays, I'll have a
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Kathy Liv
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Re: Date of Scientific American article?
Thank you so much, Steve!? I'm a great x 3 niece of Allen Wilson, and have been having a great time digging into all I can find out about him and W & W on the internet.? I appreciate your research.
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Helen DeFoe <hjdefoe@...>
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Re: Date of Scientific American article?
I guess I am not posting that... The upload button is disabled. Here is where I uploaded it to my forum site.
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sgheeter@...
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#3700
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Re: Date of Scientific American article?
May 3rd, 1879 I will upload the entire scan now.
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sgheeter@...
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#3699
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Re: D9
Hi Kathy; If the serial number you gave is complete you have a #9 & not a -9. All D-9 machines have a 7 digit SN beginning with a 2. You only show 6 digits in your number & it begins with a 1. Further
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Miller Fulks
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#3698
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Re: D9
I finally have been able to make out the number on the needle plate - or whatever is the correct name for this part of the machine. 142410.? Looks like this part will need an Evaporust bath to reveal
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Kathy Liv
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#3697
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Re: D9
Hello, ? We have a D9 here but it's a hand crank with a wooden case.? We also have two no 8 hand cranks with cases.? The wood splits after 100 years plus.? we rebuilt and I backed the "wrong side"
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Michael Kendall
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#3696
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Re: D9
While I would have preferred a drop in cabinet, I wonder if this machine is an older Wheeler and Wilson, made before drop in cabinets were added to their production line. Or maybe the coffin top
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Kathy Liv
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#3695
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Re: D9
When I brought my Wheeler and Wilson D-9 home I took all sorts of tools to take it out of the cabinet. Then I discovered a release lever and easily removed the head. Mine is a drop in so that the
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Carol Weaver
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#3694
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Re: Date of Scientific American article?
Thank you, Paul!? I'll contact him on his forum if I don't hear from him soon. -- Helen DeFoe
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Helen DeFoe <hjdefoe@...>
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