Posted 3 years ago
judy_b.
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Hello,
I am in search of a SERVICE/REPAIR MANUAL that includes the 1915 White Family Rotary treadle sewing machine. (Not the Directions/ Instructions Booklets that originally came with the machine. I've already hunted down booklets #9, 10, & 11.)
A blow-up of how parts fit together or a schematic would suffice.
If you can help with ANY information I would be very grateful. Thank you.
Desperately,
JUNEAU, ALASKA
retiredmathteacher@yahoo.com
Hi, judy_b. :-)
Service/repair and illustrated parts breakdown manuals for a 1915 White Rotary, huh?
Have you tried this group?:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/VintageSewingMachines/
They have a member who maintains a large digital library of vintage sewing machine manuals:
https://www.stillstitching.com/2019/01/teena-lee-sorrell-vintage-sewing-machine-manuals.html
If they don't have something, they'll do their darnedest to try to find it.
I hope you find the manuals you need. Good luck. :-)
Hi again, judy_b.
You might never find service/repair/parts manuals for the White Family Rotary, but you might find somebody who can otherwise help you with your machine.
This one is new to me, but it's somebody who restored a 1913 White Family Rotary:
https://www.naomida.com/play/stuff/portfolio/1913-white-rotary-treadle-sewing-machine-restoration/
There are a lot of people out there with extensive experience with vintage sewing machines (the folks at the quiltingboard and victoriansweatshop sites come to mind), and rather than try to link all of them individually, I'm just going to give you my collection of vintage sewing machine links (it's a work in progress):
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/stories/285089-vintage-sewing-machine-help
Hello,
Thank you for your 2 comments. I will be following up on them.
I did not want to bore others with details but you may appreciate my desperation. As I will be moving from Juneau to the bush in the next 6 months or so I will not have access to email/phone for several months afterward. Therefore, I won't be able to request assistance if I encounter a problem (thus my desire for a 'paper copy'.)
You've given me some promising new leads.
judy_b., You're welcome. :-)
Wow, you won't even have email or phone access? That is some serious isolation. >8-0
I'm going to try to pick up the pace by singling out a couple of the resources from my vintage sewing machine help post.
I was going to recommend particularly Wayne Schmidt, because he seems to be an all around wizard, but I read yesterday that he's temporarily disabled his email, because he's busy doing an overhaul on his website. :-(
Steven Heeter of the victoriansweatshop seems to be another all around wizard, but you'd need to join that forum to interface with him:
https://www.victoriansweatshop.com/register/register
There may well be wizards at the Facebook vintage sewing machine group, but unfortunately that group is a 'black box' to me, because I don't have a Facebook account, let alone access to that particular group.
Almost one hundred percent of what I know about that Facebook group is based on a couple of very detailed blog posts the business behind stillstitching dot com did about it.
But now that I've mentioned it, albeit indirectly, stillstitching seems to be an excellent resource.
Ordinarily, I try to stay away from recommending for-profit businesses except for parts procurement.
However, this one I will recommend, because they did a blog post in which they had a picture of all the parts, very neatly laid out, of a completely disassembled Wheeler & Wilson No. 9.
They may well have completely restored a White Family Rotary at some point, but just haven't detailed the process in a blog post.
To contact them:
https://www.stillstitching.com/p/contact.html
Good luck. :-)