A neighbour offered me one of these machines today and I jumped at the opportunity as I’m hoping to learn how to sew (having never used a sewing machine before). This video (and I’m sure the next ones too) is already really helpful so I know what to look for and what to expect. Thank you so much!
Beautiful videos, I recommend you keep showing us these wonderful SINGER machines because I love them! They are jewels of technique and engineering as well as being aesthetically wonderful ... When a person begins to use these machines for their creations, he falls in love with them more every day, because he discovers that those who designed and thought them, have not left nothing to chance but has thought of every little detail both technical and aesthetic, on how to meet users' needs as much as possible and how to facilitate sewing operations ... In fact, with these machines you sew very well, because you can see very well the needle area also, the oblique needle, allows excellent penetration of the latter into the fabric ... I love the magic coil, because you are not forced every time you have to rewind it, having to remove it from the hook and then insert it into the reel and remove the upper thread of the whole machine, perhaps while you are half of a seam or a job ... SINGER consider it the only real sewing machine in the world, is if mpre was the most sold, the most famous, the most reliable, the most advanced and is also the oldest. This company created unique machines that nobody could imitate, invented the world's first fully electronic sewing machine, the Futura 1000 and Athena 2000 in 1975! If SINGER had not existed, the other machines would not have existed as well, because when the other sewing machine companies were born, which were born later, the food was ready, SINGER having invented the first machines with the automatic transport of the brands already in 1851, while the other machine prototypes had to drag the fabric by hand every time the needle penetrated the latter .... The other companies have imitated SINGER even if they have not been able to imitate it completely ....
I’m glad I,m not the only one who wonders about who owned the machines I now have. I find looking at the wound bobbins really fascinating, they often have a multitude of colours wound on the same one unravelling them is like an archeological adventure.,often the colours are vibrant and I try to imagine what might have been sewn with them.
Hello. Once again, I succeded thanks to your videos. I took the motor off. Never thought that there would be two other screws hidden behind the first ones, at the very botton of the two holes. Thanks again. Pierre / Paris (not Texas).
We just acquired a 750 Model. We are novices and need help threading the machine and winding the bobbin. Your instructions that we have seen are very easy to follow and appreciated. Thank you
I just brought a 760 in Auckland, so this is much appreciated... Not sure if gears are split yet, and no power cord, but its in immaculate condition. Cheers buddy.
I can not thank you enough, I have a 760 that use to be my passed mothers pride and joy , and it was working poorly , so much so I thought it was for the heap, but thankfully I found you and amazingly was able to restore by following your great video , it was the very small motor part that needed changing and oiling , and it is running like new again. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom 🤗🇮🇪
Noise from my basting stitch mechanism was my problem even when it was not dialled for basting stitch. Funny last week I went in the car 85miles to buy another 760. The spanner needed to adjust the basting needle bard disengage is a bit of a pain to get to. I did reinforce the plastic bobbin winding cam that had started to split like yours, I used some soft wire and made something similar to a jubilee clip action. all the best John
I've just re-connected with my old 760. I parked it up because it wasn't stitching well. So I'm trying to rectify it now so thank you for these videos. The one problem mine has is the longest stitch length isn't very long and the tension dial can't deliver any kind of decent stitch above 3. Which of your videos would be best for this issue? Or can you offer some advice I love this mahcine. Thank you from S Wales UK
i know my Kenmore 158.17033 cost about a month's wages for a laborer backing 1974 when it was sold. it has the original Sears price tag, $395.00 on it. and that price wouldn't have included the accessories or table if one were purchased with it. most of these machines were purchased on in store credit systems from what an retired Sears salesman told me. They had options from $150ish to $$600ish in 1970s US dollars.
hi, I'm hoping this reaches you! first time sewing machine user here. I've just purchased a singer 760 and nearly immediately blocked the needle. I can't seem to figure out how to fix the spool, can you help?
Thank you so much I am learning so many new tricks about my touch & Sew from you these Machines aren't as popular here in the United States and it's hard to find anyone that will work on them so I am working on my own thank you thank you there are two screws under the slide plate in the front one is for the bobbin case holder and the one I don't know what the one to the left of that is what does that do
Hi. Thabk you soon much for you clear and informative videos. I am ran into the issue of the bobbin holder coming out and now that I have your video I am quite confident I can have it back in place. One question.. I am not seeing where that area is rotating with or without the bobbin holder installed. Do you have any recommendation?
Thanks for the videos! Helped me get my bobbin working! I also have a 760, but with a cracked pattern gear. Wondering if you have any ideas on how to repair it? I could not find any replacements online. It's a grey gear (below the pattern wheels) with slightly angled teeth that mesh with the main drive shaft. The crack causes the pattern to be ignored when it hits that part of the gear, or even jam the machine.
Hopefully you can help. I picked up a sewing machine like this. The yellow and white gear that you found that was loose. Mine is completely missing. By chance do you know what that part is called. Or I think I seen in one of your videos you sold parts. Do you happen to have an extra I could purchase from you?
I saw your reply, and answered, but am told it has failed. Thank you for trying. Maybe it was rejected as spam (strange choice of words that, especially as it’s a fashionable food again!).
What type of capacitor does the motor of that machine use to have 2 different speeds? I have 1 but they removed the capacitors and now it doesn't have 2 speeds.
Hello your video helped me a lot with my machine but I have a new problem. In the minute 19:19 you put a piece into the machine and I cannot fix mine it moves all the time... Could you help me please?
Hi, I recently unearthed my 1970s Singer Stylist 760. Unfortunately, I don't (or can't find) the presser feet and can't seem to determine what shank type the machine has. Can you shed any light on this? I just want to purchase the basic presser feed and the plates. Thanks in advance.
Greetings from the UK, I have just got a 784 to keep me busy in lockdown and it has many of the problems you show in these videos. They're a great help to amateur machine fixers like me! On mine the belt tensioner has disintegrated and the bobbin winder bit is also cracked. Where do you source new ones from?
Hi all, I'm based in the Uk, and have a non working 760. I believe that the plastic camstack is broken. Is the machine repairable?I have all the original accessories and intruction books!
@@InStitches Thanks for the reply. My sister do not live nearby. She love the 726 and use it regularly, and its possibility to sew chain stitch for seam trials and use it to make one time zippers. I helped her by distance about 5 years ago. It seemed that a capacitor was blown near the motor (i was told afterwords). I instructed her to get help from a motor electric service shop, because I estimated, that they normally will know a bit more of electrical motors than a sewing machine shop. And they helped her well.
Excuse me but 760 looks Soviet Those dials makes it look ugly duckling and what one finds in a old 1950s nuclear silo Don’t get me wrong I still love it Great demo of this old girl.
I'm trying again... I can't find my comment anymore... I was sewing a heavy fabric and the needle broke. now, if I try to sew I can see that the needle is touching the lower part, near the bobin. It bends and it breaks every time. What do I need to do? Thanks.
Thank you for showing how to check the bobbin issue. My T&S model 758 machine won't wind the thread on bobbin instead it created a net in bobbin case. Should I replace a bobbin case or there are some other issue, please help.
What do you think about rubber feed dogs? Are they inferior to metal ones? I'm noob to sewing and got me an used but in good condition futura 1000 - it's about 80% same as these series - touch and sew, but I'm under impression that it needs too much guiding fabric by hand (for straight line stitching), especially when working closer to the edge of fabric.
I think the idea of the rubber feed dogs is a good one, especially to protect delicate fabrics. In my experience, if the feed dogs are quite worn, they seem to lose grip and I find they slip if the fabric is held back even slightly. I'm yet to try new reproduction feed dogs on one of my 700 series machines.
@@InStitches Thanks I will risk getting a 720 case - BTW do you have info for the 760 camstack timing. My GUESS needle down, select the cam at the top of the stack, align the black mark with the follower, tighten the 2 grub screws on the bottom of the stack. TIA J
Take a look at my video that shows the repair - th-cam.com/video/nG205N6V14Q/w-d-xo.html - I can also supply the part. Email address in the description. Thanks.
Anything can be fixed as long as you can find the gear I usually don't mess with anything with plastic gears unless I can have someone get me the part one or two plastic gears are okay, having a bunch are not in my opinion, as far as when everything wears out
Is there locations on this machine or the Singer Student models where we need to use sewing lubricant (thicker grease) as opposed to oil? I watched a video a while ago (cant find it), that said there's a difference between locations for lubricant and those for oil. I thought lubricant was for the metal on metal gears? Not sure if this is the case for this machine. I have the student model, and it looks like this one, though bobbin case is slightly different.
Usually grease on a metal or bronze gear and or screw gears oil on other parts with holes in them that go to a bushing and there are a lot on the bottom and on top on the crankshaft use oil where oil is to be used
I have had a 760 for 50 years, given to me by a very generous boyfriend, whom I married, and l have never had the heart to say how much l hate this machine! It will only stitch cotton, and then only on a good day. The bobbin endlessly snarls up, as soon as l start stitching. Occasionally it will behave itself and run well, but today, helping my daughter out; stitching some stretchy fabric, and it has started all over again. My machine is now useless and despite my attempts to change the thread, needle and material l cannot get it to stitch. It snags up in a pile of mess underneath. My thought is that it is the spool, the infuriating spool, which undoes. I think it weakens and expands. I always wind by hand because l found that was the only way to I make it work. If anyone has any ideas please say. I even worked for Singer long ago and they were as mystified as me. It’s a one off.
Snarling underneath almost always indicates an upper tension problem. Or incorrect upper threading. Increase your upper tension - inspect and/or clean the upper tension unit and verify that you have the correct thread path. Hope this helps.
A neighbour offered me one of these machines today and I jumped at the opportunity as I’m hoping to learn how to sew (having never used a sewing machine before). This video (and I’m sure the next ones too) is already really helpful so I know what to look for and what to expect. Thank you so much!
I love those machines. It's so nice to see people taking care of the lovelies. Thanks for what you do.
Beautiful videos, I recommend you keep showing us these wonderful SINGER machines because I love them! They are jewels of technique and engineering as well as being aesthetically wonderful ... When a person begins to use these machines for their creations, he falls in love with them more every day, because he discovers that those who designed and thought them, have not left nothing to chance but has thought of every little detail both technical and aesthetic, on how to meet users' needs as much as possible and how to facilitate sewing operations ... In fact, with these machines you sew very well, because you can see very well the needle area also, the oblique needle, allows excellent penetration of the latter into the fabric ... I love the magic coil, because you are not forced every time you have to rewind it, having to remove it from the hook and then insert it into the reel and remove the upper thread of the whole machine, perhaps while you are half of a seam or a job ... SINGER consider it the only real sewing machine in the world, is if mpre was the most sold, the most famous, the most reliable, the most advanced and is also the oldest. This company created unique machines that nobody could imitate, invented the world's first fully electronic sewing machine, the Futura 1000 and Athena 2000 in 1975! If SINGER had not existed, the other machines would not have existed as well, because when the other sewing machine companies were born, which were born later, the food was ready, SINGER having invented the first machines with the automatic transport of the brands already in 1851, while the other machine prototypes had to drag the fabric by hand every time the needle penetrated the latter .... The other companies have imitated SINGER even if they have not been able to imitate it completely ....
Thanks for the comment.
I’m glad I,m not the only one who wonders about who owned the machines I now have. I find looking at the wound bobbins really fascinating, they often have a multitude of colours wound on the same one unravelling them is like an archeological adventure.,often the colours are vibrant and I try to imagine what might have been sewn with them.
Oh, probably one of the best comments I've had so far. You totally get it. Thanks.
thank you so much. these videos were a big big help!
please never delete them :)
Hello. Once again, I succeded thanks to your videos. I took the motor off. Never thought that there would be two other screws hidden behind the first ones, at the very botton of the two holes. Thanks again. Pierre / Paris (not Texas).
We just acquired a 750 Model. We are novices and need help threading the machine and winding the bobbin. Your instructions that we have seen are very easy to follow and appreciated.
Thank you
I'm please it helped. Thanks.
That’s the super tricky part especially without an owners manual- I picked up one today 760- for $8.99. I am happy to see this video.
Just been given one of these, pretty dirty and never saw these type of bobbins before x
I just brought a 760 in Auckland, so this is much appreciated... Not sure if gears are split yet, and no power cord, but its in immaculate condition. Cheers buddy.
I can not thank you enough, I have a 760 that use to be my passed mothers pride and joy , and it was working poorly , so much so I thought it was for the heap, but thankfully I found you and amazingly was able to restore by following your great video , it was the very small motor part that needed changing and oiling , and it is running like new again. Thank you so much for sharing your wisdom 🤗🇮🇪
Thanks. It's great to hear another machine was saved from the rubbish heap.
Noise from my basting stitch mechanism was my problem even when it was not dialled for basting stitch.
Funny last week I went in the car 85miles to buy another 760.
The spanner needed to adjust the basting needle bard disengage is a bit of a pain to get to.
I did reinforce the plastic bobbin winding cam that had started to split like yours, I used some soft wire and made something similar to a jubilee clip action.
all the best
John
I've just re-connected with my old 760. I parked it up because it wasn't stitching well. So I'm trying to rectify it now so thank you for these videos. The one problem mine has is the longest stitch length isn't very long and the tension dial can't deliver any kind of decent stitch above 3. Which of your videos would be best for this issue? Or can you offer some advice I love this mahcine. Thank you from S Wales UK
I wish singer would make the 760 model again, or tell where you can buy one in good condition.
i know my Kenmore 158.17033 cost about a month's wages for a laborer backing 1974 when it was sold. it has the original Sears price tag, $395.00 on it. and that price wouldn't have included the accessories or table if one were purchased with it. most of these machines were purchased on in store credit systems from what an retired Sears salesman told me. They had options from $150ish to $$600ish in 1970s US dollars.
hi, I'm hoping this reaches you! first time sewing machine user here. I've just purchased a singer 760 and nearly immediately blocked the needle. I can't seem to figure out how to fix the spool, can you help?
Thank you so much I am learning so many new tricks about my touch & Sew from you these Machines aren't as popular here in the United States and it's hard to find anyone that will work on them so I am working on my own thank you thank you there are two screws under the slide plate in the front one is for the bobbin case holder and the one I don't know what the one to the left of that is what does that do
Thanks for your kind comment. The left screw is the mounting screw for the slide plate guide.
@@InStitches ok that makes sense just got a 758 up and working again it's a great thing to do while we are staying home thanks and stay safe
@@dianabradley8349 Thanks. You too.
Hi. Thabk you soon much for you clear and informative videos. I am ran into the issue of the bobbin holder coming out and now that I have your video I am quite confident I can have it back in place. One question.. I am not seeing where that area is rotating with or without the bobbin holder installed. Do you have any recommendation?
Thanks for the videos! Helped me get my bobbin working! I also have a 760, but with a cracked pattern gear. Wondering if you have any ideas on how to repair it? I could not find any replacements online. It's a grey gear (below the pattern wheels) with slightly angled teeth that mesh with the main drive shaft. The crack causes the pattern to be ignored when it hits that part of the gear, or even jam the machine.
I am planning on doing a video on this subject.
Hopefully you can help. I picked up a sewing machine like this. The yellow and white gear that you found that was loose. Mine is completely missing. By chance do you know what that part is called. Or I think I seen in one of your videos you sold parts. Do you happen to have an extra I could purchase from you?
Please make.a video on how to change cams for different design patterns in 760/790 model
How do I center the needle? Do you have any video to solve it?
I saw your reply, and answered, but am told it has failed. Thank you for trying. Maybe it was rejected as spam (strange choice of words that, especially as it’s a fashionable food again!).
Every time I use mine the needle snaps off and I don't know why, or it just won't sew
How do we fill the thread on the thread reel, sewing machine 771
What type of capacitor does the motor of that machine use to have 2 different speeds? I have 1 but they removed the capacitors and now it doesn't have 2 speeds.
Hello your video helped me a lot with my machine but I have a new problem. In the minute 19:19 you put a piece into the machine and I cannot fix mine it moves all the time... Could you help me please?
please how to replace the belt of the singer sewing machine 760
Hi, I recently unearthed my 1970s Singer Stylist 760. Unfortunately, I don't (or can't find) the presser feet and can't seem to determine what shank type the machine has. Can you shed any light on this? I just want to purchase the basic presser feed and the plates. Thanks in advance.
My needle on this machine won't go up and down please help!
Do you have a video where I can see how to fix my machine is not getting the threat under and is the bobbin is jumping out
I have him too !
Do you have the papers of the machine maybe for me ?
Greetings from the UK, I have just got a 784 to keep me busy in lockdown and it has many of the problems you show in these videos. They're a great help to amateur machine fixers like me!
On mine the belt tensioner has disintegrated and the bobbin winder bit is also cracked. Where do you source new ones from?
Hi. I replied to your direct email. Thanks.
Hola quiero saber donde encuentro refacciones para este modelo necesito el engranaje
what size is the reel of the singer 760 sewing machine. Help me please, thank you
Hi all,
I'm based in the Uk, and have a non working 760. I believe that the plastic camstack is broken. Is the machine repairable?I have all the original accessories and intruction books!
Maybe this video could help? - th-cam.com/video/nG205N6V14Q/w-d-xo.html
Thank you very much for this detailed video. My sister got a Singer 726. Do the machine vary significantly from the Singer 760 you show here?
Thanks. Not many variations except the top thread tensioner is different and the feed dogs are metal on the 726 (from memory).
@@InStitches Thanks for the reply. My sister do not live nearby. She love the 726 and use it regularly, and its possibility to sew chain stitch for seam trials and use it to make one time zippers. I helped her by distance about 5 years ago. It seemed that a capacitor was blown near the motor (i was told afterwords). I instructed her to get help from a motor electric service shop, because I estimated, that they normally will know a bit more of electrical motors than a sewing machine shop. And they helped her well.
Excuse me but 760 looks Soviet Those dials makes it look ugly duckling and what one finds in a old 1950s nuclear silo Don’t get me wrong I still love it Great demo of this old girl.
Hello, please tell me is it possible for this sewing machine to work without a disc holder? Thanks for the answer.
Hi. I think it can be but it takes a little work to make it reliable. I have been planning on doing a video on this subject. Thanks.
I'm trying again... I can't find my comment anymore... I was sewing a heavy fabric and the needle broke. now, if I try to sew I can see that the needle is touching the lower part, near the bobin. It bends and it breaks every time. What do I need to do? Thanks.
Hi, it sounds like the timing is out or needle bar is too low, maybe there's a broken gear, something like that. Thanks.
@@InStitches Canyou show us how to set the timing?
Thank you for showing how to check the bobbin issue. My T&S model 758 machine won't wind the thread on bobbin instead it created a net in bobbin case. Should I replace a bobbin case or there are some other issue, please help.
Try a new bobbin first. Thanks.
Thank you. I will try it.
I was given a Singer 760 machine, but the gears are damaged. Do you sell spare parts, or can you help with repairs? I live in Strasbourg.
I sell parts and you can contact me via my email address which is in the description. Thanks.
@@InStitches Where is your email, where can I contact about ordering parts?🤷♀️
@@lizasharieva2179 Go to my web site in the video description and the email address is on my site. Thanks.
What do you think about rubber feed dogs? Are they inferior to metal ones? I'm noob to sewing and got me an used but in good condition futura 1000 - it's about 80% same as these series - touch and sew, but I'm under impression that it needs too much guiding fabric by hand (for straight line stitching), especially when working closer to the edge of fabric.
I think the idea of the rubber feed dogs is a good one, especially to protect delicate fabrics. In my experience, if the feed dogs are quite worn, they seem to lose grip and I find they slip if the fabric is held back even slightly. I'm yet to try new reproduction feed dogs on one of my 700 series machines.
Will a 720 case fit on a 740/760 or is it a different size, I have a 760, I wanted it for the chainstitch since I could not get a Singer 631
TIA
John
I think the cases are interchangeable. Thanks.
@@InStitches Thanks I will risk getting a 720 case - BTW do you have info for the 760 camstack timing.
My GUESS needle down, select the cam at the top of the stack, align the black mark with the follower, tighten the 2 grub screws on the bottom of the stack.
TIA
J
@@jdhtyler That could work. As long as the needle bar describes a near perfect parabola when on zig zag, that should be fine. Thanks.
I got this machine, having trouble not sewing. Problems with Gears, they told me can't fix it no spears parts. Not convinced can't be fix
Take a look at my video that shows the repair - th-cam.com/video/nG205N6V14Q/w-d-xo.html - I can also supply the part. Email address in the description. Thanks.
Anything can be fixed as long as you can find the gear I usually don't mess with anything with plastic gears unless I can have someone get me the part one or two plastic gears are okay, having a bunch are not in my opinion, as far as when everything wears out
Hola donde puedo conseguir las bobinas.de la maquina
Is there locations on this machine or the Singer Student models where we need to use sewing lubricant (thicker grease) as opposed to oil?
I watched a video a while ago (cant find it), that said there's a difference between locations for lubricant and those for oil. I thought lubricant was for the metal on metal gears? Not sure if this is the case for this machine. I have the student model, and it looks like this one, though bobbin case is slightly different.
Don't put oil on a plastic or nylon gear or Grease. Other parts you can still buy Singer sewing machine oil from Amazon
Usually grease on a metal or bronze gear and or screw gears oil on other parts with holes in them that go to a bushing and there are a lot on the bottom and on top on the crankshaft use oil where oil is to be used
Como se ase para llenar la bonina
Especially on a nylon gear
Comment faire la canette
What oil are you using
Standard sewing machine oil.
Good afternoon,can you tell me who or where I can buy a bobine case for my 600e
You could try this site www.vintagesingerparts.com
In Stitches thank you very much.
Do you know where I can buy a 766in good condition. Do you have a phone number for further questions.
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Hi my machine singer touch & see 758 its out the time can you make a video to that plis tankyou i live in mexico my inglisg nou good sorry
I think I show it this video. th-cam.com/video/yMAl176fP-E/w-d-xo.html
I have had a 760 for 50 years, given to me by a very generous boyfriend, whom
I married, and l have never had the heart to say how much l hate this machine! It will only stitch cotton, and then only on a good day. The bobbin endlessly snarls up, as soon as l start stitching. Occasionally it will behave itself and run well, but today, helping my daughter out; stitching some stretchy fabric, and it has started all over again. My machine is now useless and despite my attempts to change the thread, needle and material l cannot get it to stitch. It snags up in a pile of mess underneath. My thought is that it is the spool, the infuriating spool, which undoes. I think it weakens and expands. I always wind by hand because l found that was the only way to I make it work. If anyone has any ideas please say. I even worked for Singer long ago and they were as mystified as me. It’s a one off.
Maybe a service would help?
That's why that series of machines has been nicknamed the "sew and throw" ! LOL!!
Snarling underneath almost always indicates an upper tension problem. Or incorrect upper threading. Increase your upper tension - inspect and/or clean the upper tension unit and verify that you have the correct thread path. Hope this helps.
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