It sat in our garage, alone, forgotten for several months. One day my daughter and I hauled it into the house just to make room in the garage. I knew nothing nor really cared much for sewing machines. I Never used one and they seemed mysterious and complicated as well.
For fun, I tried to move the hand wheel and nothing moved......that was it! The ancient iron beast sucked me in. I just had to figure out why it's frozen up. I polished it a bit, tinkered, studied it and began to be impressed by the beauty and engineering of this old lady. I removed the "head" (the machine part,) from the oak table, and carried the hernia maker to my workbench. Slowly I began to "reverse-engineer" the apparatus, and slowly began to unravel the mystery of the sewing machine. Like all my tinker projects, I quickly became obsessed with it. I just had to bring it back to life. I discovered broken old parts that are surely unobtainable in these high tech times we live in. But behold....the power of EBAY!! Searching Ebay turned up everything I need to bring the 66 back to full operation. I spent many ours of fun and frustration working on this machine, and it brought such a sense of satisfaction when it started to clickety clack again, good as new like the day it was manufactured. The Singer not only looks great, it also does a fantastic job of sewing. My daughter prefers foot power to electric, she claims that it's much easier to control the speed. I wouldn't know, I'm no seamstress, just a Tinkerer.
The SINGER "66 REDEYE" sewing machine
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