Singer Sewing Machine 500 Repair Manual
DescriptionSinger 500 Sewing Machine Service Manual 518, 538, 513, 514, 533.Examples include:. Timing rotating hook.
Needle bar height and location. Adjusting the cam stack.
Setting thread clearances. Checking needle position. Adjusting belt tension. Setting presser foot at correct height. Wiring diagram. Setting feed dog height.
Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Factory Authorized Service Manual for SINGER 500 500a 503 503a Sewing Machines at the best. A sewing machine repair tech will have the skills, tools, and access to repair parts. Until you have the machine checked by someone who really understands electricity, please do not run the machine - any user runs a very real risk of injury from the speeding needle and presser foot, or from an electrical shock.
Eliminating end play. Remove and replace control panel. Fault analysis chart. Much more!78 pages of great information.Covers Models: 518, 538, 513, 514, 533 Stylist.Great diagrams!
For repairs, there is no substitute for a specific machine’s Service Manual (and parts list). These are the instructions for engineers who might have to dismantle the entire machine.
Well-written service manuals (Singer’s are a good example) usually don’t require any previous knowledge of the machine and explain it in such a way that anyone could learn it as they go along.Failing a Service Manual, the next stage down is an Adjuster’s (and User’s) Manual, which contains enough information to help keep a machine ‘timed’, at least, and set the correct needle the right way round etc. Many such manuals are available for free download from manufacturers. Failing an Adjuster’s Manual, an exploded Parts Diagram will at least show what should be where.There is no one book that will teach the repair of every machine. One model directory that lists all the industrial machines available in the sixties in a vast Excel-type spreadsheet, gives only one line per machine – and still runs to 500 pages!
Singer produced hundreds of domestic models and over a thousand (slightly) different industrials.Mending sewing machines IS within the capabilities of most people. So is putting them in the car and taking them to the menders. Most of the repair books will help decide when to take which route.
Let's dance sodka b 2014 oficjalny teledysk nowo mp4. Basic Sewing Machine RepairAuthor:K. KalmakoffPublisher:South Pacific Appropriate Technology Foundation (SPATF), P.O.
Box 6937, Boroko, Papua New Guinea.Format:Paperback. & microfiche.Date:March, 1979 (1st Edition)Pages:63Very clear, concise and comprehensive maintenance and repair instructions aimed at sewers in Papua New Guinea, where parts shops are rarer that hens’ dentists (“How to make a tension release pin from a nail” etc.). Information delightfully divided between “some machines” (Singer 15) and “other machines” (66/201), but plenty of “if your parts look like this, do this”. Illustrations drawn from Singer and Janome manuals.
Remarkably thorough. Care and Adjustment of the Sewing MachineAuthor:F.B. Wright and Harold Clough (originally, Professor Byron B. Robb)Publisher:New York State College of Agriculture (Cornell University). Cornell Extension Bulletin 815Format:PaperbackDate:Revised 1956Pages:63Cover shows a woman confidently adjusting her Featherweight. Simple maintenance for American machines from 1890-1930s.
Seems to be an expanded update of ‘Sewing Machines – Cleaning and Adjusting’ (see below), including a useful interchangeable needle list and how to sharpen needles. The Complete Guide to Treadle Sewing MachinesAuthor:Reuben O. DoylePublisher:Privately publishedFormat:11” x 8”, B&W illustrations, sold by online downloadPages:85Care, maintenance and use of treadle machines, with generic information pertinent to a wide range of models (including hand-wound).
Sound, clear advice on basic tension setting, oiling, timing the shuttle etc. – and a good chapter on the ruffler. See also: “Sewing Machine Repair For The Home Sewer!” & 'Serger Repair for the Home Sewer' by the same author. The Complete Handbook of Sewing Machine RepairAuthor:Howard HutchisonPublisher:Tab Books, Blue Ridge Summit, P.A.Format:PaperbackDate:1980Pages:308Essentially for modern machines.
It dismisses treadles in an introductory paragraph and everything else pre-1960 in the following two pages. Then it’s onto a limited range of zigzag models (New Home, Brother, White & Pfaff).
If these machines are what you’re after, then the service and repair information is excellent, with plenty of clear illustrations. The Complete Sewing Machine HandbookAuthor:Karen E. KunkelPublisher:Sterling Publishing Co.
(Cassell plc in UK)Format:Paperback, hardback. ColourDate:1997 (hardback)Pages:160ppISBN:0-8069-0848-3For owners – and prospective owners - of modern machines and a good ‘next step up’ from the instruction manual. Good advice throughout for sewers, explaining the capabilities and operation of the latest models - decorative zigzag stitching, darning, embroidery, etc. And a fresh approach to explaining those attachments.
Compound Feed Walking Foot Machines, Maintenance-Repair-TroubleshootingAuthor:Werner Schwartz (Technical DirectorPublisher:Consew (Consolidated Sewing Machine Corp., N.Y. & Miami)Format:11” x 8”, B&W illustrations, online download (no charge)Date:1985Pages:36Specific to Consew industrial machines but will help identify walking foot and sewing problems generally. Impressive trouble-shooting section and a chapter on servicing clutch motors, common to many industrials. Included as typical of some of the excellent publications, helpfully posted online by diligent manufacturers. Google and ye shall find. How to Refurbish Sewing Machines, A step-by-step guide for Singer models 66, 99, 15K & 201Publisher:Tools For Self-Reliance, Netley Marsh, Southampton, Hampshire, SO40 7GY.Format:A4, online download. B/W photos.Date:2006Pages:78A stunningly good repair manual.
Tools for Self-Reliance is a charity that sends, amongst other things, sustainable sewing machines (common Singers) to the third world. They need donated machines to work and have produced these instructions, downloadable free online, to help generous members of the public service their donations. Extremely thorough and profusely illustrated with CLEAR photos of virtually every moving part, plus tensions, timings, case refurbishment, etc. How to Repair Your Own Sewing MachineAuthor:Bert RobertshawPublisher:194, Lytham Rd, S.S. Blackpool, England.Format:8½” x 6”, paperback, B&W illustrationsCopyright Date:2003, Sew-Sales (Reprint). 1911.Pages:36Clearly written by an Old Sewing Machine Guy as his cloth-capped picture reassuringly confirms on the cover.
A short but informative book - originally written in the early twentieth century - that quickly explains the workings of domestic machines by shuttle type (transverse, vibrating, oscillating and rotary) - even a passage on the Class 29 bootpatcher - with sufficient information to get most machines back in time/tension etc. The modern reprint has clear line drawings and a troubleshooting section: ‘50 difficulties and their remedies’; plus a few pages from old Bert’s original catalogue for nostalgia value. Basic, but a good place to start.
In print (2010). Repairing Sewing Machines – a complete guide (and setting up a repair business)Author:Not declaredPublisher:Not declaredFormat:11½” x 8”. B&W line drawingsPages:218Included because it’s readily available on a certain auction site. A hotchpotch of good but randomly presented maintenance instruction, interspersed with advice on setting up a repair business (which includes the suggestion that, having set up said repair business “any repair that involves replacing parts should be entrusted to a repair agent”). Pretty much all the necessary adjustments seem to be there but it’s up to the reader to translate the generic information to the specifics of their machine. Includes a chapter on blind-stitch machines but a good third of the book is simplistic advice on starting a home business (sample dot-matrix flyers?) and equipping a sewing room. Robinson’s Sewing Machine Service ManualAuthor:Lee RobinsonPublisher:Value House, 349A Whitehorse Rd.
Croydon, England. (some editions: Walla Walla, Washington, U.S.A.)Format:9” x 6½” (approx.), Paperback, reinforced with card by public library.Date:1958 (6th printing 1972)Pages:137 (140pp in some editions), plus index.Dewey:681-7677A thorough, concise and copiously illustrated (B&W line drawings) analysis of the principal domestic machine types; from the vibrating shuttle (Singer VS2, 27 etc.) onwards. Comprehensive instructions for the diagnosis, dismantling and repair of pre-1958 machines.
Older models with a transverse shuttle, or producing a chain stitch, are not covered. Chapters also on S.M. Motors/controllers; relevant tools; equipping and adapting a repair workbench - with a built-in treadle! Sewing Machinery.
A Practical Manual of the Sewing MachineAuthor:J.W. Urquhart, C.E.Publisher:Crosby Lockwood & Co., LondonFormat:6½” x 4½”, B&W illustrations.Copyright Date:1881Number of Pages:172“The aim of the Author in preparing this little treatise was to confine himself within the limits of such a production as might be read with advantage by that numerous portion of the community engaged in selling and adjusting sewing machines, as well as by the general public interested in stitching mechanism.” And this practical Victorian volume does exactly what’s engraved so modestly on the tin. Repair and maintenance details for Howe, Singer, Wilcox & Gibbs, Wheeler & Wilson (models 1-8!), Grover & Baker, Little Wanzer & Weir machines prior to 1881. An excellent and elegant read. Probably no longer affordable except, perhaps, by Isaac Singer’s heirs. Sewing MachinesAuthor:Rosamond C. CookePublisher:Manual Arts Press, Peoria, IllinoisFormat:8” x 5½”, hardback, B&W line drawingsDate:1922Pages:140“Every girl is the potential customer of some sewing machine company, and a knowledge of every standard make of machine should be a part of her general information.” A high school textbook, designed to teach the underlying principles and construction of the sewing machine and help teachers to “operate any machine quickly and easily”.
Well-illustrated, comprehensive explanations of many American machines of the period and basic sewing instruction. Chapter on chain-stitch machines and their attachments. Makes covered: Davis, Domestic, Eldridge, National, New Home, Standard, Singer, White, Willcox & Gibbs, Rotary and Greist attachments.
Sewing Machine Reference for Singer Sewing MachinesAuthor:Charlene PhilipsPublisher:The SewboxFormat:CD ($12), download ($8)Date:2008Pages:88A comprehensive cross-referenced listing of Singer attachments and Fashion Aids, cross-referenced to the machines they once accompanied. Includes details of (nearly) all the extra attachments, Fashion Aids, puzzle boxes, oil cans, literature, furniture and loads more. Plenty of crisp photography and neat snippets of model information. Currently in print (2010). Sincere’s Sewing Machine Service BookAuthor:William Ewers (with H.W. Baylor and H.H. Kenaga)Publisher:Sincere Press, Phoenix, ArizonaFormat:11” x 8½”, hardbackDate:1968 1st Ed., 1970 2nd Ed., 1971 3rd Ed., 1974 4th Ed.Pages:209 (1971), 219 (1974)ISBN:0-912534-05-2 (Library of Congress 79-2683)A comprehensive guide to domestic machine maintenance, thoroughly Illustrated with B&W line art, photos, exploded parts diagrams etc., etc.
Featured machines: Singer 15, 66, 127, 128, 201, 221. White Rotary, New Home, Sears, Wards, Western Auto, White. Pfaff 130, 230 360, Riccar, Viking (Husqvarna), Adler & Elna zigzags (plus Necchi straight stitch in the 1974 edition). Many Japanese models. Excellent book, but pricey. Sincere’s Zigzag Sewing Machine Service BookAuthor:William Ewers (with H.W.
Baylor and H.H. Kenaga)Publisher:Sincere Press, Phoenix, Arizona.
U.S.A.Format:10 ½” x 8”. B&W.Date:1970Pages:176ISBN:0-912534-05-2 (Library of Congress 79-2683)Pretty much everything you need to service a wide variety of American and Japanese, post-WW2, domestic zigzag machines. Copious illustrations and directions but, as genuine copies currently fetch more than the cost of a professional overhaul, DIY may prove a false economy. ISMACS is an organization totally independent of all sewing-machine manufacturers, past or present and is not affiliated with any of the companies mentioned in these pages.
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