If you prefer to make wooden book ends you can.
Bookends kitchen shelf how to#
If you want to see how to reinstall the parts for the needle bar, watch the video! The hand wheel side is pretty easy to assemble. Now, you can start to put the rest of the metal pieces back onto the sewing machine body. They each get re-fastened with a set screw. Put each respective shaft piece back through the centre of the cut sewing machine sections. The cut piece in the first pic goes on the needle side of the machine.Īnd the one in the 2nd pic goes on the opposite side with the hand wheel. If you happen to cut the shaft just a bit too long, as long as it doesn’t extend longer than the cut, you can use a spade bit to drill out a divot in the wood plug. subtract more than the width of the wood plug you’ll make in the next section). When deciding where to cut the shaft, keep it shorter than each section of the sewing machine (i.e. Take all safety precautions and wear suitable eye protection etc when you do this. We used a dremel with a cutting wheel to cut each side of the shaft. To put all the pieces back onto the sewing machine so it looks like it still works, you will need to cut the shaft into two pieces. If you want make these bookends, you'll understand much better than I can explain it if you watch the video starting at the 5:31 timestamp to see how to remove the arm shaft on this 99 model! It will save you tons of time, aggravation and wear and tear on the hacksaw too. So it it was back to the drawing board to figure out how to remove it!Įvery sewing machine is a little different and we finally figured it out. And because it’s hardened steel, it will dull a number of blades and slow down the process immensely.Īfter 10 minutes of making no progress with the hacksaw, you can see that Hubs barely even nicked the shaft.
It looked easy enough so how hard could it be? Turns out, it’s very difficult to cut through. So we gave up on the shaft and decided to cut through it like we saw another blogger do on video. At first we tried vice grips but only managed to remove one screw. However, we had a difficult time figuring out how to remove it. It needs to be removed to saw through the cast iron body. The shaft running horizontally through the arm of the machine is what holds the hand wheel and needle assembly onto the machine. See in the second last picture how the silver Sharpie marking no longer lines up? The bolts can now be easily unscrewed later, as you see on the video!
Bookends kitchen shelf driver#
Now take a hammer and impact driver and smack it to break the bond of the paint. The silver marks show up against the black and will allow you to see when the bolt moves and is ready to unscrew. To judge if the bolts have loosened, before using the impact driver, use the silver Sharpie to run a line from the three bolts onto the bottom of the sewing machine right onto the base. Alternatively, you can work on a garage floor - but if you do this, remove the thread pin on top or it will likely get bent as you use the impact driver. To start, if you prefer to work upright, securely clamp the sewing machine upside down to a table. The impact driver’s design allows you to strike the end of the handle with a hammer or mallet to deliver sharp impacts that help loosen the fastener. To use a hand impact driver, you insert the appropriate bit into the holder, align it with the stuck fastener, and apply downward pressure with a hammer while simultaneously putting pressure on the direction you want the fastener to turn. In this case, the bolts can be difficult to remove on a vintage sewing machine because the whole machine is dipped in black Japanning paint, seeping into every nook and cranny and 'gluing' it together. It features a specialized bit holder that accepts screwdriver bits or hex bits, and a handle or grip for applying force. The hand impact driver operates using a combination of downward force and rotational torque (i.e there’s an inside gear that tries to turn it every time you hit it). An impact driver is a specialized tool (not to be confused with a screwdriver) that comes with a variety of bits for slotted and Phillips fasteners. Instead of drilling, use an hand impact driver. But here’s our trick for removing the bolts with no mess. Some makers drill them which sends sharp metal shavings flying. If you watch the video, you’ll see we practiced on another machine first to get our technique down. That’s so it will hold everything as we cut then we can remove the bolts after. However, after loosening them you'll leave them in place for the time being. It's a good idea to loosen the three bolts holding the base on before cutting the machine.
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