Well-maintained vintage sewing machines are still in use today.
The New Home Sewing Machine Manufacturing Company sold machines from 1879 through 1955. The NLB model is a vintage electric sewing machine that has a round bobbin case and sews a straight stitch. The company sold the machines with a 20-year guarantee, no longer in effect. With proper care, however, the New Home NLB vintage sewing machine can still perform well, and sewers can use it and its original accessories for an array of projects. Vintage sewing machine companies can help locate parts for servicing the New Home NLB sewing machine and keep it running longer.
Instructions
1. Lift the lever on the backside of the machine to raise the presser foot.
2. Locate the disk hand wheel on the right side of the machine. Rotate it away from you to raise the take-up lever as high as possible. The take-up lever protrudes from the left rear of the machine and has a loop in the end.
3. Position a spool of thread on the spool pin nearer to the sewing mechanisms. Hold the spool loosely in place with your right hand.
4. Use your left hand to pull the end of the thread through the threading guide, a small slit in the upper left side of the machine.
5. Guide the thread down toward the two tension disks on the left side of the machine. Moving from front to back, pull the thread between, under and behind the tension disks.
6. Wind the thread up through the spring near the tension disks. Release the spool with your right hand.
7. Pass the thread from left to right through the hole on the take-up lever.
8. Draw the thread down through the face plate thread guide, a small loop on the left side of the machine.
9. Pass the thread through the needle bar thread guide, a hook on the mechanism holding the needle.
10. Thread the needle by passing the thread through the eye from left to right. Pull four or five inches of thread through the needle.
11. Hold the end of the thread with your left hand. Turn the hand wheel until the needle has moved down and returned up. Gently pull the thread to bring the bobbin thread out. Pull both threads behind the presser foot to prepare for sewing.
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