Treadle belt for old machine?

Try here: they'll post to Germany, I'm sure.

Google is your friend.

Steve

My sewing-machine repair shop has a bunch of treadle belts hanging on the pegboard behind the cash register.

Joy Beeson

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:03:12 -0000, with neither quill nor qualm, jodi quickly quoth:

Take pictures of your machine and its serial number tag, then print them out on paper. Take the copies and the old belt down to a sewing machine repair shop and say "Gimme der replacement, por favor." He won't understand a word of the Anglo/Deutch/Spanish sentence, but it should give him a laugh while he finds your belt.

-- Every day above ground is a Good Day(tm). -----------

you can make one from rubber hose--check pet stores for air pump tubing

i really envy your threadle machine--sew perfect a work of art

hth peter

-----------

In the USA, sewing machine dealers still stock treadle belts, and you can also find them online on Ebay and probably other places as well.

You can also buy them here in the UK. There are several places on the net that do them. I got my last one from here Helen Howes: >

Anywhere you can find leather, you can get a leather treadle belt, either already made with staple at the end, or cut to order. But sometimes something is needed right away, and there's no time to buy a "regular" belt. In those cases, the tubing can substitute, as can a number of thin rope-like lengths. All that is required is the length, the circumference, and a certain amount of adhesion - not that it should stick to the metal, just that it should not slip like Teflon.

Vegans use treadles without leather.

...

Just read this, what do they do with the belt which came with their machine?

Mary

When you find a treadle machine, the belt is usually old and brittle, or missing altogether.

Joy Beeson

And it needs rescuing from someone who wants to turn it into a marble-topped table!

As my mama used to say, truer words were never!

Beware the Treadleonia Liberation Front!

We know where you are... ;)

And I know where you are.......your address must be around here somewhere.....what *is* all this stuff in this desk drawer, anyway, and how did it all get here.....