Sewing machine series: SIMANCO 32666

This is the first in a series of photos of the sewing machine attachments I have acquired to go with my 1950 hand-cranked Singer 99K sewing machine.

The 99K has a low shank; in theory, any screw-on foot that fits a straight low shank machine should fit (in the USA, slant shank machines were popular; here in the UK, the straight shank machine was popular). In practice, the position of the needle might not match the hole or gap in the foot.

I thought I'd start by showing the foot that actually came with the machine. It is the standard presser foot, which is SIMANCO (SInger MANufacturing COmpany) part number 32666. Each part, whether attachment or part of the machine itself, seems to be etched with the word SIMANCO and its part number (not shown in these pictures).

Like all screw-on feet, it is attached to the ankle by screwing a thumbscrew through the slot on the upright part of the foot, which I hope is clear in the pictures. The horizontal parts are toes. This foot has a big toe and a little toe.

[Often, on sites like eBay, sellers, who are unfamiliar with sewing machine feet, photograph them from the side, so that all you see is the thumbscrew slot with no detail of the toes. The important thing to show is the toes because this tells you at a glance which foot it is.]

The standard presser foot presses the material onto the feed dogs, which move the material away from the user, to create a plain straight stitch. The feed dogs are the jagged parts under the foot. They move the amount set by the stitch length control.

The stitch length control on the 99K is a subject for another post.