Anyone injecting thread with one of these

[lugnut]

I did find a pouch in one of the drawers with a bunch of needles and what looks like a shuttle hook. I'll get the serial number off of it and use the links you provided

[Bubba]

I find using a treadle is quite enjoyable. I use my 106 year old treadle to do repairs on my kids clothes and I've also made several pillow cases and other small projects. I could use mine to make gear but I've just been too busy to make anything lately. If you get this up and running and you pick up the skill of using it, no reason to not use it to make some piece of gear if only for the satisfaction. Have fun!

[bkrgi]

I too rather enjoy using my Singer 127 Treadle machine ...simple but effective and will go through just about anything

[xxl_hanger]

"Three layers of this is nothing for this maschine"

... and he sewed this (three layers of nylon webbing) with the handwheel only!

Singer model 66-motor-upgrade
This is imo overkill for such a machine, but the motors he uses are not expensive and no bad solution when you know that everything fits perfectly together.

I got it for free on my Singer treadle machine, but I had a bit work with the motor bracket.

[Ramblinrev]

Interesting to note that treadles are still being made today for the "Plain Folk" sects as well as those living off the gird in places like Alaska to mention just the US markets. Old technology that stands the test of time never really disappears. Have fun with it.

[xxl_hanger]

I know. Germany is a place somewhere in Alaska and our Bundeskanzlerin is considered as an Indian chief like Sitting Bull. Old US technology never really disappears ... even in my computer i fear the worst !!!

This Singer "Red Eye" is very facinating. Perhaps the best I have ever seen:
Singer "Red Eye" sewing leather

"It has a (very) nice stitch"

[HammockBackpacker]

My mom has used a similar singer she found at the dump many many years ago. There is a very simple method for doing the reverse stitch. Stop the stitch with the needle still in the fabric, raise the foot, carefully spin the fabric 180 degrees (so you are sewing in the opposite direction), lower the foot, make your back stitch, and boom! All done. I watched my mom do that for years.

[squidbilly]

I have one of those! Too busy to clean it up and use it right now, but I do have and use another treadle. As a matter of fact I probably do 90% of my sewing on my Necchi treadle cabinet with a Supernova BF.

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[lugnut]

Squidbilly, yours looks to be in really good shape!

[Ramblinrev]

My mom has used a similar singer she found at the dump many many years ago. There is a very simple method for doing the reverse stitch. Stop the stitch with the needle still in the fabric, raise the foot, carefully spin the fabric 180 degrees (so you are sewing in the opposite direction), lower the foot, make your back stitch, and boom! All done. I watched my mom do that for years.

Try that reverse with a tarp in the machine doing a flat felled seam on the ridge. See my post above for a kinder, gentler method used by industrial stitchers for many decades. Spinning the fabric is fine for small projects but the slide nethod is easy, faster and less cumbersome with large projects.