An awesome piece of kit...that will also sow through fingers!!! I can remember my Nan and Grandad BOTH telling tales of how they had to un hook themselves from the needle and remove the thread from their fingers...they were a different breed to folks today, looked after 20+ kids during WW2 plus 2 of their own, grew their veg and kept chickens , were local air raid wardens and worked in a brass foundry until they retired...I can remember my Grandad altering my first "off the peg" suit for me so it fit real nice, he was local billiards champion for years and also made great biscuits, Nan would shark anyone at cards and was a great darts player...and all in a small terraced house right in the middle of the industrial Midlands which was levelled partly by Hitler then totally wiped off the map by "progress" and is now a 3 lane highway.
Beautiful piece of machinery and history, Mr. Wheeler. You did a real nice job caring for and restoring it. :) I get somewhat emotional when I see old machinery all shined up and ready to work; for some reason farm implements in particular.🤓 My grandmother from NORDAK worked for Singer sales and was also an amazing seamstress. She once won a contest for a Singer sewing machine sales contest and won a DIAMOND ring! That was back in the 50’s when corporations really valued employees and had good incentives. She also made my mother’s wedding dress which in turn became MY wedding dress with a few alterations and personal touches my best friend (also a master seamstress) made.
You never cease to amaze me with the stuff you have, purchase...my grandmother had a slightly later version she inherited from her mother. Sat in one of the bedrooms at grandma's my first 20 some years of life. Not stored there, but set up and ready to use when needed. Grandma could make that machine sing.
@@tracylynnw Ya know who else did that? Beer tap makers. They used their own bastard thread sizes so parts could not be swapped with other brands or off the shelf components.
@@eboneezeradams1821 what bastards huh? At least with Singer machines, they are common as muck, not that hard to find identical machines out there, they were made in the hundreds of thousands in batches at a time
@@tracylynnw True. But to to clarify the term....in machine shop parlance, when a thread is custom, i.e. non-standard, it is referred to as a bastard size. For instance, if you had a half inch diameter bolt, the standard TPI (threads per inch) would be 13 for a coarse thread and written as 1/2-13, and fine thread would be 20 (1/2-20) or 28 (1/2-28) and there are microscope threads also used in optics but I digress. Now say I make my own custom tap that is 1/2" diameter and cuts 25 TPI (1/2-25). If I sell you a product utilizing holes tapped to that size and bolts to match, if you lose one of those bolts you are up the creek unless you can make the custom bolt yourself so you wouldn't have much choice other than buying another from me. That's the way it used to be. With the advent of CNC machining though, you can make any kind of crazy thread you want and almost effortlessly. At any rate, that is what is meant by the term _'bastard size'._ One other place the term 'bastard' is used in a shop is in regard to metal cutting files. Usually, the cutting pattern on a file is criss-cross, but if the pattern only goes one way it is referred to as a _bastard file._ I remember years ago the first time one of the older gents in the shop said _'Hand me that coarse bastard'._ I thought he was joking. Nope, that's what it's called. :-)
You brought back the memories of my Grand Mother. She owned a Singer machine, which I reckon older than 1987. Both my Grand Mom and the Singer were inseparable. I always tend to visualize her with this machine. Thank you. :)
My mam used to have a portable hand operated singer which was built as a box and you took the top off to use it. There are a lot safer and easy than an electric one plus you can go backwards if you need to when your learning. I've got a e f Riley dining/snooker table from 1911 which is as good as it was when it was made that I really need to make some space to set it up.
That’s a thing of beauty I’ve never seen one like that with the arm on top, I used to play with my mothers when I was a kid and we did live in a cabin then too, she removed the needle after my older brother impaled his finger so I was safe, he was always doing stupid things lol, we had a big Singers factory in Clydebank, massive affair built those things from scratch, forged on site etc, had its own train station( still there) it employed so many people, there’s a brilliant documentary about it I should remember more but I think the fact they’re bombproof & the introduction of electric machines maybe led to them going bust? They don’t make things like they used to including the people that made em.
Great find. I inherited and restored a Singer made in the 1920’s - no plastic (a bit of Bakelite), internal parts machine stamped w/part numbers. Singer serial # key - co posts PDFs of original owner’s manual (a real hoot in that English syntax was distinct and there were references to kerosine lubricant.) Possible w/serial number to look up date and place of manufacture.
"No this is not turning into the leather working channel so chill out" - thankfully I heard that just before I took a sip of my coffee. I might start learning to produce clothing too but hope people in the community would have tailoring skills to trade with. I feel local resilience is the future.
Nothing cooler than century old stuff. I have a book made in 1902 and a Hamilton watch from 1910 that still works! Thats all I got. Super cool content man. Never know what to expect from your videos!
My old Dad picked up an old singer sewing machine for clothes and fixed it up. It was pretty rough. I obtained another shuttle bobbin machine years later. It's old too but European not Singer! Your machine is a Cadillac!!!
Lovely piece of steel. If it's not broken don't fix it? Any modern machine is basically bells and whistles hung on this century old principles. You get to tune and service it too you lucky man!
My Mother had one of those in the House I grew up in. Sadly, it was lost in a Housefire along with Her collection of Oil Lamps. She had around 200 of them.
check out the durability of it: th-cam.com/video/RXIRbazT2Rs/w-d-xo.html this guy hooked it up to a 440 volt motor til either broke. Only the hand crank broke off from the centrifugal force but i'm sure they can upgrade it so grandma can sew at lighting speeds with no issue.
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An awesome piece of kit...that will also sow through fingers!!! I can remember my Nan and Grandad BOTH telling tales of how they had to un hook themselves from the needle and remove the thread from their fingers...they were a different breed to folks today, looked after 20+ kids during WW2 plus 2 of their own, grew their veg and kept chickens , were local air raid wardens and worked in a brass foundry until they retired...I can remember my Grandad altering my first "off the peg" suit for me so it fit real nice, he was local billiards champion for years and also made great biscuits, Nan would shark anyone at cards and was a great darts player...and all in a small terraced house right in the middle of the industrial Midlands which was levelled partly by Hitler then totally wiped off the map by "progress" and is now a 3 lane highway.
Beautiful piece of machinery and history, Mr. Wheeler. You did a real nice job caring for and restoring it. :)
I get somewhat emotional when I see old machinery all shined up and ready to work; for some reason farm implements in particular.🤓
My grandmother from NORDAK worked for Singer sales and was also an amazing seamstress. She once won a contest for a Singer sewing machine sales contest and won a DIAMOND ring! That was back in the 50’s when corporations really valued employees and had good incentives. She also made my mother’s wedding dress which in turn became MY wedding dress with a few alterations and personal touches my best friend (also a master seamstress) made.
good skills are golden
My mom had a singer like that for fabrics. It had the same set up but in a wood cabinet. That is a awesome machine Ken
You never cease to amaze me with the stuff you have, purchase...my grandmother had a slightly later version she inherited from her mother. Sat in one of the bedrooms at grandma's my first 20 some years of life. Not stored there, but set up and ready to use when needed. Grandma could make that machine sing.
At one time, Singer was buying up the old machines and destroying them. Apparently they lasted too long and it was stifling sales of newer machines.
sounds about right !
Yep, they also calibrated the screws so that they could fit Singer machines only, no possibility of swapping them with other machines at that time
@@tracylynnw Ya know who else did that? Beer tap makers. They used their own bastard thread sizes so parts could not be swapped with other brands or off the shelf components.
@@eboneezeradams1821 what bastards huh? At least with Singer machines, they are common as muck, not that hard to find identical machines out there, they were made in the hundreds of thousands in batches at a time
@@tracylynnw True. But to to clarify the term....in machine shop parlance, when a thread is custom, i.e. non-standard, it is referred to as a bastard size. For instance, if you had a half inch diameter bolt, the standard TPI (threads per inch) would be 13 for a coarse thread and written as 1/2-13, and fine thread would be 20 (1/2-20) or 28 (1/2-28) and there are microscope threads also used in optics but I digress. Now say I make my own custom tap that is 1/2" diameter and cuts 25 TPI (1/2-25). If I sell you a product utilizing holes tapped to that size and bolts to match, if you lose one of those bolts you are up the creek unless you can make the custom bolt yourself so you wouldn't have much choice other than buying another from me. That's the way it used to be. With the advent of CNC machining though, you can make any kind of crazy thread you want and almost effortlessly. At any rate, that is what is meant by the term _'bastard size'._ One other place the term 'bastard' is used in a shop is in regard to metal cutting files. Usually, the cutting pattern on a file is criss-cross, but if the pattern only goes one way it is referred to as a _bastard file._ I remember years ago the first time one of the older gents in the shop said _'Hand me that coarse bastard'._ I thought he was joking. Nope, that's what it's called. :-)
You brought back the memories of my Grand Mother. She owned a Singer machine, which I reckon older than 1987. Both my Grand Mom and the Singer were inseparable. I always tend to visualize her with this machine. Thank you. :)
My bad. I read it as 1987 instead of 1897. Sorry about that. :)
My mam used to have a portable hand operated singer which was built as a box and you took the top off to use it. There are a lot safer and easy than an electric one plus you can go backwards if you need to when your learning.
I've got a e f Riley dining/snooker table from 1911 which is as good as it was when it was made that I really need to make some space to set it up.
That’s a thing of beauty I’ve never seen one like that with the arm on top, I used to play with my mothers when I was a kid and we did live in a cabin then too, she removed the needle after my older brother impaled his finger so I was safe, he was always doing stupid things lol, we had a big Singers factory in Clydebank, massive affair built those things from scratch, forged on site etc, had its own train station( still there) it employed so many people, there’s a brilliant documentary about it I should remember more but I think the fact they’re bombproof & the introduction of electric machines maybe led to them going bust? They don’t make things like they used to including the people that made em.
What a find Ken, that is a piece of golden history :) "Built to last" is an understatement!
Great find. I inherited and restored a Singer made in the 1920’s - no plastic (a bit of Bakelite), internal parts machine stamped w/part numbers. Singer serial # key - co posts PDFs of original owner’s manual (a real hoot in that English syntax was distinct and there were references to kerosine lubricant.) Possible w/serial number to look up date and place of manufacture.
I have a domestic hand crank Singer sewing machine made in 1899. Still works great with a dab of oil here n there.
"No this is not turning into the leather working channel so chill out" - thankfully I heard that just before I took a sip of my coffee. I might start learning to produce clothing too but hope people in the community would have tailoring skills to trade with. I feel local resilience is the future.
KitchenAid Model H Stand Mixers are still running from 1919, but that Singer is an amazing piece of machinery.
Ii've been using mine for forty-five years. It sews everything-thin, thick, fur, canvas, leather. Shoe repair men nickname this baby ' a patcher.'
Nothing cooler than century old stuff. I have a book made in 1902 and a Hamilton watch from 1910 that still works! Thats all I got.
Super cool content man. Never know what to expect from your videos!
I liked how it sounds/sounded when you flung that heavy flywheel thing!
shes a hard mechanical beast :)
My old Dad picked up an old singer sewing machine for clothes and fixed it up. It was pretty rough. I obtained another shuttle bobbin machine years later. It's old too but European not Singer! Your machine is a Cadillac!!!
It’s beautiful! Congratulations on a great find! I am seriously jealous!
Thanks so much!
Complete with bobbin winder too! Very nice Ken. Worth it's weight in gold.
“The leather working channel” 🤣 I like the break from the heavier issues you speak on. Fascinating. Old typewriters are way cool too!!
That is an awesome unicorn that you have there! My wife wants one of those to set next to her hand cranked one.
Awesome tool. I own many useable antiques. Your lucky to have that Ken. Nice find !
Wow!!! Very interesting, and historical. Thanks for sharing. 👍🏼
I remember seeing one of those in my grandfather's shoe maker shop when I was a kid back in the 60's.
Old sewing machines work, like old cameras. No computers
Cool dude .........................cool machinka .............awesome Sewing
So what is the next Leather Sewing Project ???? Hope to see the Vid .....
Awesome machine! All the old singer machines are worth their weight in gold. (Most fools would rather have the gold. Lol. )
It's beautiful! So good it works.1897! Ha!
yeah, 1897!!!
In Melbourne, Australia; have seen a few of these albeit 1920s 1930s models, they are quite the life in art piece.
1897 That makes it just a little bit older than you then Ken.
Always baffled me how sewing machines work, quite an amazing invention.
agreeeeeed
Lovely piece of steel.
If it's not broken don't fix it?
Any modern machine is basically bells and whistles hung on this century old principles.
You get to tune and service it too you lucky man!
My Mother had one of those in the House I grew up in. Sadly, it was lost in a Housefire along with Her collection of Oil Lamps.
She had around 200 of them.
They don’t build things to last like they use to
Uauuuuuuu! Singer! Where is the platinum?
Thanks Ken. What a thing!
Beauty Ken! But.... what would you do with two of those? One for the house & one for the cabin?
i desperately want TWO !!!!!!!!!!!!
@@KenTheoriaApophasis Ok! Just making sure I didn't miss something. Can be a bit absent minded. :-)
Oh man, I saw singer and I thought You were gonna sing👳♂️👍I do have an 1897 and 1880 penny. That's pretty neat buddy
Whoa,that’s a beauty,you lucky git
They don't make them like they used to, literally.
a frind is ortho. cobbler hier in germany. He has 2 of these "Reparaturnähmaschienen" and he love them
This might be the first time you showed your bare foot. Nice sewing machine.
Your a 10 10 +++ Ken thank You for You.
Sheer quality. When stuff was made to last.
You can purchase new water slide decals for that machine, they sell them on eBay.
ohhhh rerrrry. ?
Theoria Apophasis yeppers, so you can make it all shiny and new 😁
Work of art.
Beautiful 😻
We watched a program, the main factory was in Clydebank, Scotland. I believe there may have been other factories around the world though.
Right on !
I bet the women running those machines had some burly calf muscles .
I’m almost willing to bet men were choosing wives in those days based on their calf muscles alone for their stitching power abilities . 🤣💪🧵
check out the durability of it: th-cam.com/video/RXIRbazT2Rs/w-d-xo.html this guy hooked it up to a 440 volt motor til either broke. Only the hand crank broke off from the centrifugal force but i'm sure they can upgrade it so grandma can sew at lighting speeds with no issue.
Ken you are the man
Hahaha!!! I have one of those!! It’s so good for leather!!
What a wonderful investment! Smart money brother!
Bro I was hoping you would make a video about it!
1897? How old are you mister?
Where can I find one like this? How much do these sell for?
That is awesome!
HI Ken, Did u see Tony's latest video, he rates XT4 the miss of the year, what a joke & the over-heating R5 the king of the yr !!!!
hes a fool
They dam sure dont make them like that any more!!! Lol
Do you plan to touch up the paint? (logos)
nahhhh
Future proof
Love it!
Red mercury inside?
Wow, nice!
Amazing!
Well loved pace of workman shift , they are like having a thiered hand , lovely to drive!!!!!ll
U should work for the government and look for aliens lifeforms plz
Amazing.
Nifty!
cool!
Love it!