Tuesday 10 September 2013

How to Unlock Sewing Machine Drawers

Maria asked: ... How do you unlock your side drawers on your machine?


My drawers have a central lock between the two drawers on either side (mine is a 5 drawer model, the middle flip down drawer does not lock)

The key looks very simple and flat - replacement keys are available to buy on ebay, some are more decorative. (also; there are different key shapes, some are triangular, I can only advise on my model which is a 15K, 5 drawer model made in Clydebank 1923)


The little flat key goes in vertically, turns counter-clockwise by 90º to lock.


To unlock it would go in horizontally and turn 90º clockwise

The same goes for locking the lid. There is a little hole on the right of the lid. To lock you put the key in vertically and turn 90º anti-clockwise.


 As you can see in this photo, a little hook comes up to catch the upper leaf of the table.



I never lock my machine, I personally don't see the point. I guess you might want to keep young kids away from sewing needles (or some kind of military secrets) in the drawers. But the un-lockable mechanism below is much more lethal in my opinion. 

Anyways, I hope that helps.

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Update: Maria managed to get her drawers unlocked and found her original manual, what a find! You can find the free downloads of manuals for 15K, 28K, 66K and 99K on this website other manuals are available on that site for a fee.

3 comments :

  1. very many thanks, a wonderful website for a fascinating subject, my girl is a 1937 201K treadle, she is still sprightly.

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  2. very many thanks, a wonderful website for a fascinating subject, my girl is a 1937 201K treadle, she is still sprightly.

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  3. Thanks for the advise, I also read somewhere that if you don't have a key, you can use a small flat screwdriver. However, for my 1908 66K singer that didn't work, I peered in the whole and mine are scare, so I found a small star screwdriver and thankfully that did the trick!. I bought the machine without having seen it as the top was locked, I didn't have the patience to wait to find a fitting key! https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10154361209615001.1073741830.891165000&type=1&l=4b269ce04a

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