New Home left hand take up lever
 

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I was surprised to find a take up lever on the back of the New Home. Oh well, as long as it works.

Way number 7 to skin a cat.

So there is nothing on the front (side facing you when sewing)?? Got a pic?

Umm- am I missing something? Isn't that a normal place for them to be? (at least on vintage machines)

BTW -that New Home is a badged machine made by Free. Right before New Home was bought out, they produced a rotary machine that is a Singer 15 clone. Their earlier rotary machine is quite different (and hard to find). The badged ones made by Free are very common, and in several different models.

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that pic is iding but here is another left armed NH of mine.

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that pic is iding but here is another left armed NH of mine.

ok 2 also a 3/4 vs
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leonf, I have a Free Westinghouse ALB that's more or less the same machine, except it has the "turtle" motor. Not sure if you're aware, they were made to take a shorter CC1221 needle, but you should be able to adjust the needlebar to take 15x1 needles. Neat machines, I don't know if they were all aluminum, but mine is, only weighs about 16 pounds, pretty impressive for that era.

Speaking if iding, where's the bobbin winder on that one?

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Thanks Rocsew.

leonf, on that machine with the dull bronze finish, is the bobbin winder on the motor shaft itself? I've seen some old Domestics like that, I think that arm on the back swings out to be the thread guide for the winder, and disengages the motor from the handwheel at the same time.