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Hi everyone. I hope all of you are well during these troubeling times.
I wanted to ask if anyone could point me in the right direction regarding how to restore standard singer sewing machine motors (BT series). I have no experience with the rewiring process and want to study up before I decide to purchase an electric machine. If there any other forums that would be of help Id love to know about them. Thank you and take care everyone? -- Anthony from N. California |
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avs wrote:
> I wanted to ask if anyone could point me in the right direction regarding > how to restore standard singer sewing machine motors (BT series). I have > no experience with the rewiring process and want to study up before I > decide to purchase an electric machine. If there any other forums that > would be of help Id love to know about them. I can't guarantee you'll find an answer to exactly what you need, but the VSS forum has quite a few posts, on motor repair/restoration. And of course there's always youtube: surely several people have done motor overhaul videos. (Haven't looked myself.) paul =---------------------- paul fox, pgf@... (arlington, ma, where it's 42.3 degrees) |
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We use our old machines and the electric ones I kept the motor and pedal as is for the ones that looked in bad condition and? I bought a modern motor with an electronic control (some Ebay listings say electronic control but they are still resistor carbon disks )This way I can keep the original as is with all the brittle wiring and duff capacitors. Capacitors can be just removed if you do not mind upsetting the radio frequency uses. On one machine the duff capacitors caused the machine to start on it own, that was why the previous owner sold the 201K. Note these old machines do not have an EARTH so if you trap a wire the whole machine can be LIVE and in the UK that is 240V some o the reason for this something called double insulation In the 1980s I used to design Gas fires / tumble driers Earthed - Cooker Hoods "no earth" it is interesting to find out why.? Oil will damage the? I do have the skills and experience to repair motors but prefer to leave them as is if they do not function however I have used the correct low melting point motor grease and while running the machine the use of gentle heat with a hair drier would get the wicks working again ( I did read that some motors can use OIL ? ) the trick is with lubrication "more is not better" Here are a few links I have kept hope they help COMPARISON Singer Featherweight 221 Motor & Gear Lubricant Upgrading motor and lighting on a vintage Singer Sewing Machine Funny story at my Mother-in-LAWs house I was leaning on the sink and I touched the microwave and had a tingle, volt meter said 75v and this was the case for all the sockets apart from the cooker socket. I guessed what it was "floating ground/earth" What someone had done was add electrics to an outside building and in the 1960s fuse box they connected three earth wires into a connector but did not connect to the real earth connection, hence floating and a bit dangerous in a kitchen. ?? all the best John On Sat, 27 Mar 2021 at 22:16, avs <anthonysalazarjr@...> wrote: Hi everyone. I hope all of you are well during these troubeling times. |
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