Singer machine

[trailblazer75]

Anyone know anything about this? I’m taking the dive and looking for a good starter that I won’t replace in a month like my first 250cc motorcycle.

Vintage Singer sewing machine table with foot pedal and accessories.

Deluxe zig zag machine “the golden” model 620

Includes:
2 user manuals
Fashion discs
Buttonholes
Various needles and thread

$125. Worth it?

 

[LeanMachine]

Not in my opinion. I wouldn't pay more than $50. Plenty of machines of that caliber out there that can be had for less than $50 or free.

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[trailblazer75]

This is good info! Thank you.


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[kenn1320]

I've been using a singer 20u33 and it works great. For most things saddle, I think zigzag isn't needed. Only thing mine is limiting on is foot height, which only comes into play when trying to jump over previously sewed material. A higher lift would reduce snags.

 

[BackSpasm]

I agree fully with @LeanMachine

 

[rich]

My Mom now passed and Wife are sewing nuts so I have learned a few things over the years. Singer machines like the one mentioned were good in their day but that was in the stone age compared to today. Like many companies Singer has changed hands over the years and even back in the day when they came out with new models parts for the old ones became hard to impossible to get. Most had plastic gears that wore out over time or just broke. Even with some of the newer high $$$ machines it is almost impossible to find someone that can actually fix them. My advice is before you purchase any used machine be sure and sew some with it before purchase because most have problems.

 

[bj139]

I think that Singer has plastic main gears which will break. I would look for all metal gears. You could take the top cover off and look if you can see it before buying.

 

[bj139]

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This might be a Japanese machine which are generally good.

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This one may be good. It has reverse.

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[trailblazer75]

I wound up going with this old beast of a white!

So far I like it. Tinkering with servicing today.

 

[rich]

The 1 out of the 5 sewing machines my wife has set up in her 12'x24' sewing room I built on to the house for her that she lets me use is a Pfaff tiptronic 1171. It is a few years old but it sews like a dream. I used to do Revolutionary War living history and I made all my clothing using this machine. I just finished up my Anderson style saddle Wednesday. I used size 16 universal needle with Gutermann upholstery thread 100% polyester and triple stitched everything. It even sewed through doubled 1" hollow core webbing attaching it to the seat belt 2" top strap webbing as lineman loops and moly like it was butter. The only time it balked was if you hit a spot where you had melted the ends of the webbing.

Can you believe that my Mom completely wore out one of those late 1940s early 50s Singer machines ( also a few more machines latter on). Those things were built like a tank. She made most of her, my sister and I and some of Dad's clothing. Not counting stuff for the house and others. Her routine on Saturday evening after supper was to take a bath and wash her hair. At about 7:30 P.M. while using the old long hose hair dryer she would lay out on the kitchen table her cloth and pattern and cut out a dress. Then set down beside that table where her machine was and sew up that dress and have it ready to wear to church the next morning before the 11 p.m. news came on TV. When I got married and my wife would go to make her a dress and it would take her 2 or 3 days I thought something was wrong with her. I did not realize just how talented my Mom was. She could look at someone and take news paper lay it down and cut out a pattern for what ever clothing was needed without taking a single measurement and when done it would fit like a glove.