Singer Maintenance Manual
Posted By admin On 02.10.19
I have just been bitten by the sewing machine, which is shouldering through the chainsaws for attention. Since I sidelined my old Elna carina by stripping a gear, I have been reworking and using a thousand-pound Rikkkar portable, late sixties maybe, and a Jaguar Kenmore 1345. They are much cleaner that the saws, I must say.
Now I found a Singer 401a in a table, complete, in good condition. I looked on ebay and found this very manual for sale, paper photo copy, $12 +$3 shipping. So Thank You. Spending a dollar on a free machine is like a dillion percent increase in cost. I am a donald too but I go by Don. People used to use 3-in-1 oil, and other non-sewing machine oils to lubricate their machines.
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Over decades a sticky varnish will develop that gums up the mechanisms. If you take off the covers of your machine, the moving parts should be grey, silver or greasy black. If they are covered in a brown shellac-looking gunk, you have a varnish problem.
Patience, time, heat (blow dryer), and tri-flow lubricant (or other high-quality oil) applied to the sticky parts are your best cure. Apply oil, warm with the blow dryer, work the mechanisms, more oil, wait, repeat, repeat, repeat, etc. P atience is vital.
It may take several days to loosen up something that hasn’t moved in 30 years. Avoid the temptation to use strong solvents, or to take apart any of the finely-synchronized mechanisms, unless you are absolutely sure you know how to set the timing on your sewing machine again. Thank you Santa! I recently obtained a 401a from an Estate sale and it had been unused in a shed since 1968.
Rita, the prior owner, was apparently quite a smoker. My friend and I have been Rehabing this machine and stripping away the tar and nicotine stains with Hoppes no 9 gun cleaner- which, by the way, works like a DREAM without damaging any of the painted or metal surfaces in any way! When I saw it in their garage, it was covered with a layer of felted grime from years of disuse after being in a heavy smoker’s home. The inside had gummed up with old grease which had turned green.
After degreasing and re-lubing the inside it’s now running, whereas before it had not been able to turn any gears with power to the unit. I still need to take apart the tensioner and other adjustment parts on the machine to clean each metal part to remove the grime and tar. But now it’s running and I have a COMPLETE 401a with attachments and a Cabinet. I can’t wait to finish digging in to clean her up and eventually- SEW on it! But without this manual It would have been a lot of trial and error.
(mostly error I suspect.) I really really appreciate your posting these resources and hope to one day soon repay your kindness with a scanned touch and sew machine manual that came with an attachment set as a bonus part of the auction! EBay CAN sometimes be helpful! Now all I need is access to a scanner and my EVIL plan will be semi complete! Thanks very much for your efforts (uploaded manuals).
It does “CRACK ME UP” “FOR REAL”.TO SEE OTHER PEOPLE CHARGING MONEY FOR THE MANUAL,/DOWNLOAD/CONTENT!!! I MEAN FOR STARTERS, I DOUBT IT’S EVEN LEGAL TO DO THAT.IT’S MOST LIKELY COPYWRITTEN MATERIAL.OWNED BY SINGER!!! I’D BE CAREFUL IF I WERE ONE OF THEM “DING-DONG’S”!!! AND THEN, (HUH) I’M MEAN, THE SCUMBAGGY GREEDINESS OF THESE PEOPLE?!?!? IT MAKES ME SICK! I FOUND A FEW OTHER FREE D’LOADS FOR SINGER MODEL 401(A) ON THE NET TOO: USERS MANUAL, PATTERN CHARTS, PARTS LIST MANUAL, SO.THEY DEFINITELY ARE OUT THERE FOR FREE.
BUT.KUDOS FOR YOUR EFFORTS. Ah, a lucky find this site. I recently picked up a 1963 Singer 411g from Gumtree for £40. It ran quite well, just needing a clean and lube. Foolishly I decided to take the gear off which turns the rotating hook, to remove some trapped fluff and get the machine clean and lubed. I certainly got the machine nice and clean, shame the timing was all to pot once I reassembled it. This service manual looks just the thing so I can get her back in action again.
Singer Maintenance Manual
A local sewing machine shop would charge nearly £60 for a service, so I’d like to try using this service manual first Fingers crossed!!
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