"Industrial Strength" Sewing Machines? - maybe not

That's actually a fairly good guide. There has been a lot of abuse of the term "Industrial Strength" sewing machine.

Not sure what the writer considers my Singer 111W155, but I'd call it "better than average for sewing heavy things".

Steve

That's a true industrial machine, built for upholstery and other heavy work. The type this warning essay is aimed at is the normal Singer Type

Your machine is indeed an industrial compound feed walking foot machine

I'm constantly amazed at the prices people pay for these things. They get left at kerb sides, taken to the dump, Freecycled, and gien to me for nothing! I can also pick them up for a fiver in junk shops...

Him and his band of idiot disciples...

Is he related to the ones who call every 99 and Spartan a "featherweight"? Love the ones who list a GE travel iron and call it a "featherweight" iron, too! Plus any set of Singer low shank attachments are "Featherweight" attachments!

Between the Featherweights and the Industrial Strength models, they've got the market cornered!

I hope so. I paid the outrageous price of $250 with the base and everything.

Steve

Yup, that crew! ;)

I'm just waiting to see a 99 described as an 'industrial strengeth Featherweight'! :D :D

You probably got a good deal. A recon head alone can go for twice that.

ROFL!!!! When that happens, we should pop open a bottle of bubbly and toast the insanity of it all!

That would be a fair price assuming it did not need a tremendous amount of reconditioning. A dealer might ask $500-$600.00 for one gone over.

So far, just had to adjust some of the tensioners and get a couple of new bobbins. Downloaded the manual. They're pretty simple.

Steve

Simple until something goes wrong anyway

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Am always gobsmacked by what sellers call "Industrial Strength" on eBay and other places.

Vintage machines by Elna, Pfaff, Kenmore, Janome and the like are all most always billed as "all metal parts.... industrial strength", and so forth.

Only slightly less irritating are those selling what are true industrial machines, but do not disclose if the machine is head only. For those that know about these things this is not a problem, but sadly too many naïf spend good money on a machine, only to have it arrive and find out it needs to be mounted on a table and requires a motor.

OTHO, if someone would mis-label a vintage Singer hemstitch machine so one could nab it at a decent price, I'd be much obliged! *LOL*

And then I have a guy who is a genius on lots of sewing machines. So, it's still simple.

Steve

Thank you