It's usually the simple stuff.

I love my Singer 201-1. I love to treadle. Lately the treadle has been clanking. I think the original wooden pitman is failing.  At one point Steven had crafted a beautiful wooden pitman for another treadle stand I rescued. I'm hoping he can do the same again. The clanking is driving me nuts. (See here)

Me: Do you remember making that pitman rod for me years ago?

S: Yes, I do. What happened to it?
Me: It went with the treadle stand when I sold that machine. I think I need a new one for my stand in the studio

S: Well, let's take a look.

Which meant that we both went downstairs and I got on my belly behind the stand to look at the pitman rod. There isn't much room behind the treadle stand. I store stuff back there. Extension cord wires hang down. I'm old and stiff. But I managed.

Me: See? There's a small screw, maybe I can tighten it .
Steve: No, I can't see. 

It was awkward reaching the screw but I persisted (yes, my name is Elizabeth) and so did the clanking.

Steve: It looks like there is play side to side. Pop out that cotter pin and see if it will take another washer. 

I do so, it wouldn't. But now I see that the clanking is coming from the pedal itself. I see a screw holding the pedal to the irons. 

Nope that one is not loose. 

Yep. That one is. 

Problem solved. (Wow look at all that thread.)

 

And now I remember tightening that very same screw some years ago when we lived in New York. Sheesh.

Progress on OBW Six. I need more light and a better camera. 

 

And now I remember the time I had to tighten that very same screw about ten years ago when we were still living in NY. Who knows, maybe I even wrote a post about it. 

Look at all of that thread on that rug under that treadle.