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Meet Betsy/ DIY Kestrel build

Good progress! Is your industrial machine a treadle (leather belt), an electric, or a hand wheel controlled manually run?
 
It’s an electric with leather belt and a large motor I will at some point upgrade to a servo motor for silent slow running function but for now it‘s fine
It’s a 96k 49 but I have been given a smaller version which I have serviced and got runningB90688AD-32EC-435C-8CBC-B51F1EDA971A.jpeg
Here’s the small machine
 
These old Singers are really works of art and built to last, not like these days where everything is built cheaply to be used a few times and thrown out. I recently bought a 15-91 which dates back to 1951 and very impressed with how it's built. Good luck with the 99k, she's a beaut!
What thread did you use on your saddle btw?
 
Thanks I used a terra 40 on a large spool with needles to match and the machine never missed a Beat
 
wayne r said:
Thanks I used a terra 40 on a large spool with needles to match and the machine never missed a Beat
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That is a nice 99K! And you have the reverse stitching function. You can get the missing slide plate on either Ebay (for a vintage one) or at shop.sew-classic.com (a new repro $5.99+ship). I am reserving several of these for my (5 young) granddaughters, and I find 99's very strong sewers.

I am not familiar with industrials in general, but reading up on Class 96 machines they appear to be beastly capable machines.
 
J3general said:
That is a nice 99K! And you have the reverse stitching function. You can get the missing slide plate on either Ebay (for a vintage one) or at shop.sew-classic.com (a new repro $5.99+ship). I am reserving several of these for my (5 young) granddaughters, and I find 99's very strong sewers.

I am not familiar with industrials in general, but reading up on Class 96 machines they appear to be beastly capable machines.
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I found one and installed it stripped down the machine and gave it a good clean, i had to get a new pin for the tensioner as it didn't work but now she sews lovely straight stitches, at first there was so much crud the machine wouldn't turn over but now she purrs well chuffed the 96 will do anything really it doesn't struggle with anything I even managed a pair of moccasins for stalking without issues
 
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