The Super Exciting News - Straight Leg Treadle is Back on the Active Roster!

A little over a week ago I teased that I had some exciting news.  Here it is.  YAY!

A Little Cleaning on the 15-30

I've been using the treadle pretty constantly.  It gave me a chance to really get annoyed with how dirty I'm leaving it.  Yesterday I decided that as a test of how I'm going to do the cleaning for the 66 I should do a pre-run with the 15-30.  Made sense at the time.

I didn't do a complete breakdown on it.  Just the bobbin area, the face plate, oil cover and bobbin winder were what I started with.  Here's the before picture of the parts I expected to see the biggest change in.

Addition to the quiver

So I use the machines to making camping gear. One problem I was running into was control at low speed, just a couple of stitches per second. With the 15-91 and 403 I tend to get a little heavy on the foot pedal after a few seconds and start racing. Well to fix that, today I picked up at 1915 treadle model 15. Sweet.

It took about 8 hours of work to chase away all the spiders that had moved in, give it a good cleaning and oiling.  Lots of rust on the working parts had to be worked off.  Yeah the rope-drive isn't period correct.  But why spend 20 bucks for a leather belt when 15 cents worth of Home Depot rope does the same trick.  No slips yet.  Sews solid, holds tension and stitch length perfect so far.