![]() ![]() You can find the hand crank and spoked wheel after market attachments on eBay and other places on the internet. You can find the Pink Atlas Sewing machine on, eBay and other places. It won't sew otherwise as there are gears and things on the underneath side that need to have empty space to work freely. If you do buy one of the antique sewing machines BE SURE you have a wooden base for the hand crank model or, in the case of a treadle sewing machine, a treadle sewing machine table for it. I believe this machine is a treadle sewing machine. If you don't want to go to the trouble of converting an existing mechanical sewing machine, (this won't work for the computerized models obviously, because there is no way to select your stitch without electricity nor can you change the stitch length or needle position, among other settings), is to just buy one of the beautiful antique treadle or hand crank sewing machines such as this Singer 66 model or "Red Eye" shown below without its table. ![]() I should have put a piece of fabric in there first -duh! Anyhow, the wheel turned smoothly and didn't seem to catch on anything at all! I was later able to remove the matted threads nest I had created below the needle plate or in the bobbin area. Even though the motor is internal in the New Home SS-2015 - I'll just see about that! My first experiment was to turn the hand crank wheel on the right side when the power was completely off. ![]()
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