Singer Model 457 Needle Bar

bevel gear

the needle

reconnect the

i guess you broke even , someone paid you $12 to take the machine away and you blew your profits buying a $12 bevel gear ;) (joke)

There is not much to that needle bar. My guess is you swung the needle bar so far to one side that the slide pin that links the needle bar to the horizontal shaft slipped out of its slide bushing and just needs to be reinserted.

There is a clamp on the needle bar (about 1/2 way up/down either end) with a set screw in it. The clamp allows one to adjust the needle bar height it also doubles as the slide pin which is a shiny pin sticking out the side toward machine. This slide pin will have a hole /bushing it slides into which connects to an arm that connects to the horizontal shaft.

If none of that made sense you will want a parts chart, servce manual or a working 457 reference machine :)

hth robb

Not sure why you took all that apart. The gear is replaced by taking the shaft out the bottom. There is a parts chart on the Singer site