Singer "Merritt" Line Any Good?

Posted by Candide on January 1, 2007, 9:46 pm

Have seen vintage Singer Merritt sewing machines and sergers about, all
seem made in Japan. Was this line any good?

Candide

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Posted by Martha Fulmer on January 1, 2007, 10:34 pm

I have been using a Merritt serger for about 12 years and have never had any
trouble with it. I think the Merritt line was kind of plain vanilla as in
no bells and whistles but of decent quality.

Martha
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Posted by Sharon Hays on January 2, 2007, 8:23 am

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I agree. I've had mine for 16 years. Love it. Still does a marvelous job
with everything. Right now, it's been relegated to "semi-retirement" since
I got my Viking. But I still pull it out for different things. Last time I
had a project where I needed both single needle sewing and double needle
sewing, I set it up with the double needle. It does a gorgeous job with a
double needle. It's not fancy by any stretch of the imagination. However,
it has certainly led a workhorse kind of life with me, and done just
beautifully. (and I like mechanical sewing machines way more than
computerized anyway)

Sharon

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Posted by me on January 2, 2007, 9:55 am

I had one of these, which I received new new back in the 1980s as a
gift. It is a real workhorse, made of metal not plastic. My Meritt
was made in Brazil. I had it put in a treadle table last year and
gave it to a friend who has a eco-friendly home "off-the-grid" (she
has very little electric - wind & solar with battery back up).

She just loves it, drop in bobbin, lots of decorative cams, etc.

It is not very exotic, but it is a very solid machine.

me

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Posted by AK&DStrohl on January 2, 2007, 8:43 pm

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Well, at the end of the 80's it was all plastic. I bought a long desired,
totally out of reach Viking #1 last summer. I'm pleased as punch with it.

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She must have a different model. Mine was very basic. Maybe 6 stitch
patterns and a "manual" buttonhole. Meaning it had four different parts of
the buttonhole on different positions on the dial that I had to change for
every part of the buttonhole. I still had to go over the stitches twice
carefully adjusting things to get a solid stitch.

Mine had no decorative cams at all.
It is still sitting by the door. I want to give it to my church's school
for classes my DH wants to sell it at a yard sale.

IMVHO, I would not buy it again.
AK in PA

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