Tension Units - Face Plates and Internal Bigguns
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Upper Thread Tension Units
Take-Up Springs
Bottom or Bobbin Winder Tension Units
Tension Unit Parts
Springs are particularly hard-to-get. These have a take-up spring unless it says otherwise. Treat yours with respect, they (mostly) don't make all of them now...
In no particular order....
Page dressed-down soundly and in progress with renewal April 2021
Complete Face Plates with Tension Units
TU494 Jones; £10
TU500 Blue Jones; £8.50
TU281 Plain Singer 15, filthy but sound; £8
TU334 Helvetia; £12.50
TU333 Wheeler and Wilson 9; £20
TU026 Singer 15; £10
TU031 Blackside (wartime) Singer 15; £10
Black-side parts are quite common; in the years after the Second World war, chrome and nickel for plating were in very short supply, so black parts were made..
Some machines have an odd mix of parts, as the factories never wasted what was in the "bins"
TU198 German TS; £12
TU498 New Home 125 with back plate; £10
TU199 Harris 2H, with bits; £20
TU286 Old Singer 15, very thick; £10
TU284 Harris 15 clone; £10
TU329 Early Singer 15, very pretty and hugely solid; £12.50
TU033 Vesta TS, very good; £15
Internal Bigguns
TU501 Victoria; £8
TU497 Brother PS31; £10
TU499 New Home 657a; £10
TU336 E and R Classic, good; £10
TU496 Necchi Lydia 544 with bits; £10
TU503 Toyota RS2000; £6
TU282 Viking 6370; £10
TU277 New Home Memorycraft 6000 with lots of bits; £10
TU280 Toyota EX490; £8
TU326 Home Dream, with bits; £8
TU502 Bush DF3024; £10
TU285 Jones VX520; £10
TU253 from modern Chinese-made machine; £7.50
Oddities
TU328 Perhaps industrial, definitely tension units, on 220mm long hexagonal bars, new; £7.50 each
Helen Howes
Helen Howes Sewing Machines
1 Castell Farm Cottages, Thurlton Road, Raveningham, Norfolk NR14 6NY. UK
07914 676182
Email me here - helen@helenhowes-sewingmachines.co.uk
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