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Posted by Judith Umbria on December 23, 2006, 2:45 pm
froggie lover wrote:
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> Hi , iam one of those attatched at the hip with their sewing machine
> girls. i married a french guy and now i live here in france. my sewing
> machine came with me , it is a few ( maybe 5 years old) non-electronic
> singer scholastic machine. i need some help figuring out what i need
> to convert the electricity, the mister at the singer store here in town
> was saying i need to convert the cycles? do i really, he didn't
> actually see my machine ? i have seen next to nothing online except 2
> people saying A) they never had a problem with using an transformer
> B) they always had a problem using an
> transformer
> please take pity on me someone and if you have any info to add to the
> only 2 pieces of info i could find please add it , thank you so much
Listen to him. If you don't change the cycles, the motor will burn
out. Many things can do with just the voltage change, but nothing with
brushes will last.
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Posted by Anna Sheridan on January 14, 2007, 7:34 am
i need some help figuring out what i need
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> to convert the electricity, the mister at the singer store here in town
> was saying i need to convert the cycles?
I went through something similar when I 'imported' an American husband here
to Australia. I had an old old Singer sewing machine that I loved, but was
falling to pieces. When my hubby came over he brought with him all his
belongings, and these included his mother's old sewing machine built into a
lovely table! And it was the same model as mine, only hardly ever used. But
of course I could not use it here in Australia without a transformer. But
what I did I removed the motor from my old machine and put it into his. And
it worked! So if you are used to your machine perhaps you can buy the same
model somewhere in a junk shop - all you need is a motor, and have it
swapped.
We had some equipment running on transformers, and these transformers were
always buzzing and overheating, I was constantly worried about that.
Anna
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Posted by Pogonip on January 14, 2007, 3:28 pm
Anna Sheridan wrote:
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> i need some help figuring out what i need
>
>>to convert the electricity, the mister at the singer store here in town
>>was saying i need to convert the cycles?
>
> I went through something similar when I 'imported' an American husband here
> to Australia. I had an old old Singer sewing machine that I loved, but was
> falling to pieces. When my hubby came over he brought with him all his
> belongings, and these included his mother's old sewing machine built into a
> lovely table! And it was the same model as mine, only hardly ever used. But
> of course I could not use it here in Australia without a transformer. But
> what I did I removed the motor from my old machine and put it into his. And
> it worked! So if you are used to your machine perhaps you can buy the same
> model somewhere in a junk shop - all you need is a motor, and have it
> swapped.
>
> We had some equipment running on transformers, and these transformers were
> always buzzing and overheating, I was constantly worried about that.
>
> Anna
>
>
If the motor is external, such as with the Singer 128, 129, 15 (except
-91), 66, 115, 221 - you can swap out the motor. If the motor is
internal, such as with the 15-91, 101, 201, 301, 401, etc., you can't.
As many people will tell you, when they started putting the motors
inside the machine housing, they created problems for us in later years,
since the motors stopped being available, and you can't just pop any
motor into the space.
--
Joanne
stitches @ singerlady.reno.nv.us.earth.milky-way.com
http://members.tripod.com/~bernardschopen/
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Posted by Kate XXXXXX on January 14, 2007, 6:08 pm
Pogonip wrote:
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> Anna Sheridan wrote:
>
>> i need some help figuring out what i need
>>> to convert the electricity, the mister at the singer store here in town
>>> was saying i need to convert the cycles?
>> I went through something similar when I 'imported' an American husband
>> here to Australia. I had an old old Singer sewing machine that I
>> loved, but was falling to pieces. When my hubby came over he brought
>> with him all his belongings, and these included his mother's old
>> sewing machine built into a lovely table! And it was the same model as
>> mine, only hardly ever used. But of course I could not use it here in
>> Australia without a transformer. But what I did I removed the motor
>> from my old machine and put it into his. And it worked! So if you are
>> used to your machine perhaps you can buy the same model somewhere in a
>> junk shop - all you need is a motor, and have it swapped.
>> We had some equipment running on transformers, and these transformers
>> were always buzzing and overheating, I was constantly worried about that.
>> Anna
> If the motor is external, such as with the Singer 128, 129, 15 (except
> -91), 66, 115, 221 - you can swap out the motor. If the motor is
> internal, such as with the 15-91, 101, 201, 301, 401, etc., you can't.
>
> As many people will tell you, when they started putting the motors
> inside the machine housing, they created problems for us in later years,
> since the motors stopped being available, and you can't just pop any
> motor into the space.
>
Look carefully inside the motor housing, especially on earlier models:
you will sometimes find that they are the exact same motor as used in
the external housing but not in the pretty case! Well, not that those
external motors were pretty, exactly...
--
Kate XXXXXX R.C.T.Q Madame Chef des Trolls
Lady Catherine, Wardrobe Mistress of the Chocolate Buttons
http://www.katedicey.co.uk
Click on Kate's Pages and explore!
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> girls. i married a french guy and now i live here in france. my sewing
> machine came with me , it is a few ( maybe 5 years old) non-electronic
> singer scholastic machine. i need some help figuring out what i need
> to convert the electricity, the mister at the singer store here in town
> was saying i need to convert the cycles? do i really, he didn't
> actually see my machine ? i have seen next to nothing online except 2
> people saying A) they never had a problem with using an transformer
> B) they always had a problem using an
> transformer
> please take pity on me someone and if you have any info to add to the
> only 2 pieces of info i could find please add it , thank you so much