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Thanks for the links! Liz
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E Ward <elizabethward4000@...>
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Re: Thanks for letting me join
Welcome to the digest Liz.? Other resources for old sewing machines include: http://www.ismacs.net ( http://www.ismacs.net ) (lots of free manuals and historical information) http://needlebar.org/
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Heresolong
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Re: Thanks for letting me join
Actually I see that there is information in the files. Thanks very much! [email protected]> wrote:
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E Ward <elizabethward4000@...>
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Thanks for letting me join
Hi all. I recently was given a German sewing machine that several people think is a copy of a Wheeler and Wilson #9. I would love to find a manual for it.Does anyone know where I could get a free
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elizabethward4000@...
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Are you Sugarland Rob?? wrote:
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Agatha Harkness
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I have a D8 earmarked for you... all but one of the glass feet... and a rebiildable bobbin winder
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Robert Collins
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I have heard of this adapter, and that it's rare. Saw a guy on YouTube with one. I was planning on find a local machinist to see if they're up to a trying to make something different. I have one for
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Agatha Harkness
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The Singer 9Ws are Wheeler & Wilson sewing machines with a domestic Singer sized bed. I own at least five of them plus several 9s and D9s, three 8s, 3 curved needle machines. Two of my D9s are hand
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Phyllis in Iowa
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I'd love an English one! If nothing else because it'd be different. I don't want 3 exact versions of the same machine, so knowing this I'll look more at the English ones that are available. Thank you!
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Tara Kimmell <tutcher@...>
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Hi I am in the UK the had cranked WW9 is different to the ones I have seen in the USA I guess you will be looking for the wild USA crank and not the neat small UK ones UK has a lot more hand crank
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John Harrison
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Hello everyone! I only sort of have a W&W. I have one of the infamous hybird Singer 9Ws (decals & other clues date it to 1909). Foot print of a Singer, pillar of a W&W, uses W&W feet and bobbins, &
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Agatha Harkness
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Roxy
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The dark bobbins fit perfectly.? Even using the old thread that came wound on the one I tried, the machine is stitching a fine seam.? (Love, love, love those W&W's.!
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Roxy
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The dark bobbins seem slightly bigger than the lighter one. Do they fit into the bobbin case of the W&W D-9? Sandra Haak [email protected]> wrote:
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Sandra Haak
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In the files section here, there's a pdf comparison of W&W bobbins that includes an Adler and a Jones Spool.? These dark metal bobbins have a different appearance although they seem identical in
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Roxy
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When Singer bought W&W in 1905 they continued either using the stock of bobbin on hand or made more as needed. However, after Singer ceased production of the 9w1 (a clone of the W&W D9) they altered
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Bill Wells <ronone69@...>
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Adler made some machines with.a.similar bobbin, but they are a smidge skinner.than a WW On Wed, Jun 7, 2023 at 12:08 PM, Roxy via groups.io<rgrinnell2010@...> wrote: Thank you.? I'm
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fountaam@...
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Thank you.? I'm definitely open to suggestions, ideas...and guesses. ? :-) It would be nice to know if Boye, Greist or any other company made compatible W&W bobbins, and what those may have looked
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Roxy
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Thanks. It was a guess based upon a small image. The bobbins could be those of someone else. [email protected]> wrote:
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Bill Wells <ronone69@...>
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I don't think those dark bobbins are for Whites unless there are White Rotary models that I don't know about, which is very possible.? Attached is a photo comparing a White Rotary bobbin to my dark
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Roxy
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