1934 Singer Featherweight - Putting it back together - This is how I like to relax...
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- Опубликовано: 27 май 2023
- This is my process for fully reassembling a Featherweight for restoration. I reinstall the feed connecting rod, feed fork and both rock shafts as well. At the end I enjoy sewing my own little project. I hope you enjoy this video as much as I did making it!
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Look below for links to most of the products you will need to restore a machine:
Shop the Singer Featherweight Shop for some supplies you need: singer-featherweight.com/?aff=57
I sell grease wicks for your Featherweight on my site! Here is where you can find them: sewingmachinerehab.com/shop/o...
List of supplies and links:
Various sized flat head screw drivers such as...
Chapman screwdrivers Kit No. 9600: amzn.to/47R4n7N
Craftsman Ratcheting Offset Screwdriver: amzn.to/3Ehii9o
Penetrating oil, I love Aerokroil by Kano: amzn.to/3R1a25h
Lily White Sewing Machine Oil: amzn.to/3Ej1O0F
Sew-Retro Sewing Machine Grease: singer-featherweight.com/prod...
91% Isopropyl Alcohol: amzn.to/45tO7rv
Zymol Cleaner Wax: amzn.to/3P05c5o
Krud Kutter: amzn.to/3Ek2inh
Krud Kutter - The Must for Rust: amzn.to/3R2lKfR
Regular Cotton Swabs: amzn.to/3YW22nS
Pointy Cotton Swabs: amzn.to/3ECINXn
Old cotton t-shirts cut into pieces or other rags
Blue shop towels: amzn.to/45yO2D6
Sandwich bags (to keep parts together)
New Bed cushions for your Featherweight:singer-featherweight.com/prod...
New Featherweight Drip Pad: singer-featherweight.com/prod...
New LED lightbulb for your Featherweight: singer-featherweight.com/prod...
New belt for your Featherweight: singer-featherweight.com/prod...
New electronic style foot control: amzn.to/45tsNCH Feeler gauge: amzn.to/3YZJbbq
Thread tension meter: singer-featherweight.com/prod...
Tweezers: amzn.to/45Os7r7
Several small artist paint brushes and a 1" chip brush (you can buy on Amazon but they are cheaper at stores like Walmart and Harbor Freight)
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As a videographer and video editor as well as a sewing machine enthusiast, I really appreciate the quality of your videos. Avoid auto-focus in the future, and you will have perfected them.
Thank you for the kind words! Yes, that auto focus. I am working on learning a new camera...a Sony ZV-E10. I just don't like how the colors are coming out in manual mode. I believe the video you commented on was shot on an iPhone pro. I have a long way to go with my camera skills but it's my goal to improve them to the best of my ability!
As someone with many years of video expierence behind him, one of my first thoughts was how nice the video and lighting was.
I just finished watching the disassembly and now it’s 1:07am and I should be asleep but watching you do this is just so incredibly satisfying. I wish I was mechanically gifted like this
All I can say is that I learned over many machines. Now I can do it in my sleep but in the beginning it was daunting!
An awesome video Jen, definitely one of your best!
Thank you Bob. Loved using the screw starters!
This vídeo makes me want to have a smart TV. (I can't believe you sold this 1934 RARE machine.)
Hi! I sold it in hopes that I would come across another one at some point. It just makes me happy to know that it is being used and not sitting on a shelf somewhere. These machines are better if they are worked, not collecting dust. Since this video I have had the opportunity to work on an even earlier Featherweight! So much fun!
I just love your videos so much, thank you for sharing your knowledge and encouraging us to carry on with our own Featherweight machines (take them out of the case, giving them a good cleaning and use them).
I am so glad the videos are able to help, I really believe most everyone is capable of servicing their machines. It is good to get to know how they work because then when a little problem pops up you are able to trouble shoot on your own. That is a great feeling! Thank you so much for watching and for your kind words!
Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and process. It was worth it all to see the lovely end result and the beautiful stitches.
You are so welcome! I truly enjoyed every minute of it!
Bravo ! Quelle maîtrise ! C'est un plaisir de vous voir travailler, merci pour cette vidéo ❤
Merci!
Jen - wow, just wow. What a beautiful video and a wonderful restoration of an early featherweight. You bring the whole package to this work, but most of all I relate to the passion and ethic you bring to the process. I’m so glad you are able to share these with those of us who appreciate what you do.
Thank you Bill! Glad you liked, I know your standards! Hope you are well and have lots of Featherweights to work on!
Amazing production as always. I watched this after another day working in the OR (theatre UK) to relax; watching you relax after being in the OR as a patient. I hope you heal back to function as fast as your Featherweights do in your hands.
Thank you! I am doing great, hope you are appreciated in the OR, that’s quite a job!
I am so happy your channel popped up in my recommended feed! I love how you explain procedures. The only other channel I had found has really declined in actual Feather Weight content and is mostly the host checking her computer to view comments in the chat area. Then saying hi to every single person watching and talking about the weather in their state and on and on…. so to find you and how well you explain things is so wonderful. I have learned so much from you after watching only a few videos. Please recuperate safely and quickly. I appreciate the knowledge you are sharing.
Thank you! I am planning my next series which will be on the Singer 99. There will be more Featherweight content as well, I am just catching up on customers machines since I had to take a little down time. I love sharing how to’s on these fabulous machines. :)
Thumb up and congratz. You deserve another UK Made 222K. 🤭
Thanks! Love a great 222K, they are definitely little unicorns though, hard to find!
Thank you Jen - this was just beautiful to watch and sooooo satisfying. You obviously know these things like the back of your (very nice) own hands. I had no idea you'd had surgery, it looks like recovery is going well. I hope whatever it was needed for is all tickety-boo and right as rain in no time. :-)
Hello! I am so glad you liked it, I thought of you when I was making it because I think you said you would like to see it back together and sewing. I am doing really well, just had to deal with something and I am glad it is over! Won't ever have to deal with it again! :)
Your series of videos have given me the confidence to disassemble, clean, and reassemble a featherweight I recently bought. The only part that really seems intimidating to me is the electrical stuff, especially the lead sheath on the lighting wires. The sheath on my machine is extremely oxidized a pure white and I am super nervous about getting lead poisoning. Also, the fear of getting the wires nestled back correctly is nerve wracking lol. Thank you so much for making these videos. Your style of presentation and your voice are so clear and reassuring. I love that you show in detail when a specific part needs to be oriented in a particular way, it is so helpful.
Hi! I am so glad you found them helpful! The wiring can be intimidating for sure and if you are not comfortable replacing wiring then I would suggest finding someone who can do it for you. Wear gloves when you touch the lead sheath and even a mask if it makes you feel more comfortable. When I am working with the sheath I usually do it over shop towels that I can crumple up and throw away. As far as getting everything back in, it really is trial and error. It may take you a few tries to get it all to fit back the way it was but it can be done! Let me know if you have any questions!
I have done household electrical work like installing new lighting fixtures and replacing receptacles, so I am not worried in that sense. I think its the fear of working in such a tight space and getting everything back the way it belongs. I have ordered a respirator and goggles (I know, seems like overkill). I'll let you know how it goes! Thank you for your support!
What a great video. I have loved all your featherweight videos. They have given me the confidence to work on my and clean up up. I would love to see what your process is for cleaning and polishing all the parts. Thnaks
You are so welcome! I am working on a cleaning video at the moment. :)
Amazing rebuild. Thank you.
Beautiful!!!
Thank you!!
Amazing and fantastic
Thanks a lot 😊
Sensei, all the best for a speedy recovery and healing. Thank you for sharing this video with us. I love to watch your videos over and over. You're giving me more confidence to delve in deeper with these magnificent little machines. 🦋🙏🏽
Thank you! Would love to see some of the machines you finish!
Congrats on your recovery from your surgery! What an awesome view of 'All the clean parts'! Wow, this is advanced restoration, Buddy! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Jebb!
@@SewingMachineRehab You"re welcome!
I just got my 1947 working with perfect stitches,your tutorial taught me even more on my Featherweight.
Thank you!!
I am so glad! Great job!
Jenn, such a great presentation. Praying for a full recovery from your surgery. Love the background music, clear instruction and the videography is excellent.
Thank you Larry! I think I am almost 100% thanks to an awesome Father and a great husband. Hope you are well too!
Thank you that was a great video. Such care and attention to each part of the rebuild. Wishing you a speedy recovery.
Thank you so much!
Back in the day, such pins were so-called "taper pins", almost always, and these did, indeed press OUT from the back, and press IN from the front. Always.
FWIW, taper pins are available at most ACE Hardware stores. Plus, of course, McMaster-Carr.
Indeed, there are taper pin reamers available, which can be employed to repair a taper pin bore, should it become damaged.
Thank you for all of that great info! Wasn’t sure if I could get the size I needed if I ever had to replace one. Hopefully I don’t!
Fantastic job!!! Five stars restoration!!!
How do you get that shiny shine of the internal metal parts of the machine?
Is amazing!!!
Thanks for sharing
Hi! Thank you! After cleaning the parts I use fine sandpaper on any that are not chrome plated to shine them up further. The chrome parts are a little different. It’s wonderful if they are already in great shape but if they need a little buffing I find that you can use one of the nail buffers that are made to shine up the natural nail. They are gentle enough to not scratch and polish up and minor imperfections. It works for me but I would just try it in an inconspicuous place first to see if it would work for you. Hope that helps!
Hi Jen, fantastic video. Did you pull the rock shaft and feed lifting rock shaft completely apart to clean them or did you leave them as you can see them in this video and the previous one and just pop them in the ultrasonic and scrub?
I would also love to know how you removed the handwheel collar and the parts within the arm for proper cleaning 🤩
Thank you for generously sharing your wealth of knowledge!
Hello! In my Featherweight restoration series I do not remove the rock shafts as it is a little more heavy duty work and may not be for everyone. For these two videos I did remove them and I always do when I restore machines for my customers or when I am going to offer them for sale. Further disassembly of both of the shafts makes for even more adjustments upon reassembly so I do that on a case by case basis. I don't think it is always necessary. I try to clean them in the ultrasonic and then dry them very quickly, flush them with alcohol that helps the drying process and then add oil to all the moving parts right away. So far I have had success with that approach. Removing the collar is also on a case by case basis, I have removed every gear and shaft on some machines. It all depends how far you want or need to go and how comfortable you are with reassembly and getting all the settings right again. Long answer but that really is how it goes!
@@SewingMachineRehab thank you for your response. It was very helpful!
How on earth do you remember where everything goes. Every time I take my cars apart, especially the engines, I have parts left over. The funny thing is, they still go, but I'm sure that won't work with my singers.
Ps. just wondering whether or not it would be a good idea to give bearing surfaces and moving parts a light smear of an auto antiwear additive as you reassemble?
I remember the first machine I took apart, a Singer 404. All the parts were overwhelming. I still keep them separate and grouped together as I work with them but the more you do, the more you remember what you should have and where it goes. I couldn't answer about the auto anti-wear...my first instinct is to say not to use it. I think if you wipe them down and and a light smear of the grease you are going to be using that is the best option. Some additives can be bad for the parts over time. Just my opinion though. Good luck!
Did you make a video of the rewiring part of this build? I'd be very interested.
Hi! I did not. That will be a future video at some point though. My friend Bob Fowler does have some videos of a Featherweight rewire on his channel: www.youtube.com/@BobFowlerWorkshop/featured
@@SewingMachineRehab thank you very much
Will this machine be for sale??
Hi! Yes it will, hopefully within the next week or so. I am replacing the handle on the case and doing a few other things before I list it. If you are interested in the machine you can reach me at jen@sewingmachinerehab.com