As every vintage sewing machine hunter knows, a lot of times you lot purchase a machine together with the seller insists you lot convey the cabinet it's mounted in, because they only desire it out of their garage. The outset few times that's fun--hey, gratis desk!--but shortly you lot receive got to a greater extent than cabinets than you lot know what to practice with.
If you lot receive got a Singer that's been wired for cabinet use, it volition receive got a "single lead" ability cable alongside only i laid upward of wires going into the concluding plug. Here's the i from my latest acquisition:
As you lot tin see, this one's inwards pathetic sort together with needs to last tossed. The wiring insulation looks similar it dates to the Eisenhower direction together with you lot tin encounter bare metal. But earlier nosotros acquire rid of it, we're going to "harvest" the Singer concluding plug, then that subsequently nosotros tin easily--and inexpensively--make ourselves a novel ability cable.
This here's the concluding plug. It's got ii screws asset it together together with is super-easy to acquire apart.
A Brownells flake #150-4 fits the screw perfectly. (Click here if you lot demand to acquire well-nigh screwdriver bits.)
As you lot loosen the screws, last aware that the lilliputian nut on the other side may autumn out of the bottom.
So practice it over a towel or carpeting scrap, then that the nut doesn't autumn out together with bounce onto the floor, causing you lot to acquire downward on your hands together with knees alongside a flashlight trying to abide by the darn thing. (Yes, that's what happened to me the outset time.)
Once you've got the screws removed, the ii halves come upward apart together with you lot encounter this:
Looks intimidating but it's not. All it is is ii wires going into ii lilliputian brass connectors. There's a 3rd brass connecter inwards the center, but this volition last empty for a cabinet-wiring configuration.
The brass connectors only popular correct out.
Then you lot tin only unscrew the knurled brass ring, revealing the wiring wrapped unopen to the threaded part.
That wiring pops correct off.
Then, practice yourself a favor together with screw the knurled brass band dorsum onto the connecter earlier you lot lose it. Next, cutting the wiring exterior of the concluding plug together with force the remaining wiring through the plug to take away it.
I'm truly going to relieve this cut-off fight of wiring, then that later, when nosotros supersede it inwards a time to come entry, nosotros tin re-create the knot they used to concur it inwards there.
After you've removed the wiring, seat all 3 brass connectors dorsum into the plug body.
Then only screw everything dorsum together for safekeeping.
What Not to Do: As you lot outset laid about turning the screws, plow them like shooting fish in a barrel to last certain they're entering the nut at the proper angle. The outset fourth dimension I did this I was inwards a hurry to acquire it dorsum together together with accidentally forced the screw inwards at a slight angle. This stripped the terminate of the screw together with ruined the threads within of the nut, rendering both parts useless. So fifty-fifty though this is a uncomplicated lilliputian physical care for for a uncomplicated lilliputian part, convey your fourth dimension alongside it. What I've works life inwards sewing machine repair is that patience is everything; those times that I've rushed something is ever when I harm a piece of occupation or strip a screw.
To plow this into a new, working ability cord, you lot tin gild the cables alongside a molded plug correct hither from Jenny at Sew-Classic, my favorite sewing machine parts supplier. It's solely $3.29, versus the $8.69 you'd pay for the molded plug, cable together with concluding plug. (She too stocks those right here, yesteryear the way.) Not a huge toll difference, but if you lot gild only the cables together with wire it into the concluding plug yourself, you lot acquire the satisfaction of keeping i to a greater extent than slice out of the garbage together with dorsum into service. Plus the master copy Singer concluding plugs receive got that keen "S" on them.
Just ii to a greater extent than things:
One, what I've been referring to hither equally the "terminal plug" is called, inwards Singer's master copy manuals, the "3 pivot terminal, woman someone half," only FYI.
Two, I typically drib my bad wiring off at a local recycling middle rather than throwing them inwards the trash. An electronics recycler volition convey the fourth dimension to harvest the metallic inwards the wiring together with plow it into something useful. If you lot receive got a Best Buy nigh you, they receive got onetime electronics together with wiring for recycling gratis of charge.
