consew_226_day_one

I bought an old consew 226. sort of a "semi-project". not sure what year it is; maybe later I can find out from the serial number. it's a "wick-oiler", not one of the new-fangled pressure-lube ones. both the head and the motor were made in japan

the seller demonstrated it: seems to sew OK: starts, stops, feeds, turns, all that. and WAY fast, "scarey fast" matter of fact. but when you stop sewing, lift the presser foot, and try to "drag the work out" rearward (or leftward) the upper thread breaks before you can cut it.

doesn't seem like that's caused by a too-tightly set tensioner, because it sews OK and the stitches look good, top and bottom. anybody know what else could cause it? seller -claimed- there's a tiny crosspin missing in the upper-mid area of the tensioner, where the tiny disks with the spring squeeze together, though I can't confirm the missing pin, seeing as I have NO "exploded" (or other types of parts) drawings for this machine, no repair manual, and no owners manual (other than some bizarre and seemingly *very* abbreviated owners manual pdf I found online seemingly covering this machine AND THREE OTHER consew models)

anybody know what the differences are between a 226 and a 226-R1?

is the spring-wrapped black vertical rod on the left side of this image supposed to be dead straight where it goes through the base? mine's slightly bent where it "glides through" the baseplate casting. this (knee-activated) rod thing lifts the presser foot...and I think there's probably a part MISSING on my machine, too: when I got it, the bottom of this same linkage rod was just like it's pictured here, but the upper end of the 'bottom interconnecting linkage assembly' that touches it, has a 'roller lifter'-looking thing on thre end of it, like it is in the bottom left of this image. since the interconnecting bar 'sweeps across in a sort of arc' when the knee lift pad is pressed, it doesn't seem like enough 'contact area', so I'm guessing a part is missing...is it?

I may not've paid close enough attention when I removed the head from the stand, either: is the big black wheel on the bobbin winder supposed to be powered by a seperate small (possibly round, leather) belt, running to the handwheel? or is the bobbin winder 'ordinarily' powered by having its larger black wheel ride the outside surface of the vee-belt? judging from it's bone-dry look, it looks like the bobbin winder's *never* been oiled...

right. and I read this machine (and many others, eg the juki LU-563, etc etc) are all clones of the singer 111W. so, does that mean the parts are interchangeable? if they are, are just some of them, or all of them? like say the tensioner assembly? or tensioner assembly single components? and what about screws? I'm guessing since the singer was made in USA, it uses conventional national course and NF machine screw threadings, for the most part, anyway. and my consew was made in Japan, and, so far, anyway, it seems the threadings are metric...so, maybe everything *except* threaded fasteners interchage? or?

on another note entirely, I have a huge collection of tools, hardware, shop equipment, and machine-related items I'd like to peddle. all located gainesville FL. all items exactly as pictured :-). nearly all of it is listed in alphabetical order on this page - just click any item listed there to see *images* of the (or those) thing. I'll also swap my stuff for stuff on my wants list. offers invited, questions answered, let's talk, shoot me an e-mail :-)

for additional thrills, you can watch my fabulous consew 226 movie on youtube, too

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