The Singer Sewhandy Model 20: History, Maintenance, and Troubleshooting

Singer first officially ventured into the toy sewing machine industry in 1910, providing a supreme quality standard for the growing industry and dominating it for the majority of the century. In this video, we'll be looking into the evolution of the Singer Model 20 and Singer Sewhandy, as well as common problems, maintenance, packaging, and my three machines.

Singer's popularization of children's sewing machines led to many off-brand toys using a similar chain stitch mechanism to be produced, one of the more popular ones being Tee-Gee Metal Industries' Junior Miss machine. Though information online is scarce, I own a machine that came with most of the original packaging, so we'll also be looking at that.

CORRECTIONS:
The lead machine that I mentioned in the video isn’t actually made of lead, it’s instead the brand name of the machine. Thanks to Dawn Miller for the correction!

SOURCES:
Model 20: https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/to...
https://ismacs.net/singer_sewing_mach...
https://sewalot.com/singer%20toy%20mo...

Model 24: https://sewalot.com/singer%2024.htm
https://www.singersewinginfo.co.uk/24
http://www.needlebar.org/main/singer2...

IMAGE CREDITS: https://pastebin.com/7y0hZgRu

Some of the songs in this video were composed and recorded by my friend Carter! He has a channel with lots of really interesting music content, including covers, improv, and song analysis and composition. Go say hi:    / @carterlam  

0:00 - Introduction
1:36 - Early Children's Machines (Singer Model 24)
2:29 - Brief Overview of the Model 20
3:00 - Mechanics and Parts
4:21 - Singer Model 20
5:15 - Knockoffs
5:56 - Singer Sewhandy 20-10
8:48 - Later Iterations and Legacy
9:37 - Commonly Missing Parts
13:03 - Helpful Things to Have
15:10 - Maintenance
17:13 - Troubleshooting
19:18 - Broken Model 20
22:47 - Functional Model 20
23:42 - Model 20-10 and Packaging
28:01 - Junior Miss Machine
35:40 - Conclusion

well this was a lot of work. feel free to sub.