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Progress with my Wheeler and Wilson No 1.

 

So after cleaning and polishing everything under the cloth plate the machine is much quieter but the sound that I hear now seems to be the needle as it goes through the cloth. I am thinking the needle is too old or not sharp enough. I checked and double checked to see if the needle was hitting anything else and it is not. The feed bar was the one making the noise yesterday and that is now fixed. I'll need to order more needles and see how that goes.

The other issue that I am having is the fabric sliding around under the pressure foot. As someone else said there is a way to make the presser foot apply more pressure but I need to take off the whole arm and then get the foot out and replace the spring with a stronger one. First I need to get that dang screw knob off the top to unscrew. I am afraid of breaking it. Thanks for the help. I'll keep on trying.

I am happy that it does form a good stitch and that I can at least do that for now. It's a great little machine and am having fun working on it.

Jorge
 

Hey Jorge. You mentioned that the feed bar was the thing making the noise. Out of curiosity,? on the far lefthand side of the feed bar there's a small pin that sticks down underneath. You'll see this when the cloth plate is off. Was there a spring on this pin going down to the frame of the sewing machine? This spring helps to push the feed bar back.? If the spring is missing,? the feed bar will surely flop around and cause a clatter.? Bill


On Sun, 10 May 2020 at 7:25 PM, JorgeInSF via groups.io
<jorgeinsf@...> wrote:
So after cleaning and polishing everything under the cloth plate the machine is much quieter but the sound that I hear now seems to be the needle as it goes through the cloth. I am thinking the needle is too old or not sharp enough. I checked and double checked to see if the needle was hitting anything else and it is not. The feed bar was the one making the noise yesterday and that is now fixed. I'll need to order more needles and see how that goes.

The other issue that I am having is the fabric sliding around under the pressure foot. As someone else said there is a way to make the presser foot apply more pressure but I need to take off the whole arm and then get the foot out and replace the spring with a stronger one. First I need to get that dang screw knob off the top to unscrew. I am afraid of breaking it. Thanks for the help. I'll keep on trying.

I am happy that it does form a good stitch and that I can at least do that for now. It's a great little machine and am having fun working on it.

Jorge

 

No it¡¯s there and in good condition. The feed bar was a bit dirty and not smooth so it was not moving back and forth very smoothly. Ordered some new needles and hopefully that will make the machine even more quiet. Thanks for checking.?


Jorge

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