This experience has also taught me a lot about the different treadle bases and has helped me understand the difference between the different parts. That means I can always put the belt back on and plug in the machine and be able to run it off of a foot pedal instead. I only had to remove the belt and could leave the motor in place. The cool thing about this particular Stratavario machine is that I did not have to remove the motor. I set the machine in the cabinet, and then set up my treadle belt to get it working. I did make a few mistakes and dinged up the tabletop here and there, but overall I consider this a great success. While I know I wasn’t super fast in the video above, I sped up quickly as I gained more experience with how the saws worked. This worked much easier and faster than the American saws I was used to using. I used two Japanese-style pull saws to cut out the hole in the cabinet. I marked the design on the tabletop exactly and only cut out exactly what I needed to remove. Taking this template to the tabletop made everything much easier. Thanks to the template I created, it was a perfect fit! It took around 3 hours to cut out the hole to fit this new machine. I then drew the line around it to indicate where the machine’s outer edge was.
I cut the cardboard carefully so that it fit around the machine tightly and left at least a 1/2-inch lip to support the machine. Instead I used scrap cardboard to make a template of the base of the machine. Because the machine needed to sit on a lip on the table, I could have easily cut out too much. But as my dad pointed out, that was a really easy way to make mistakes. At first I was going to cut out the hole by measuring the machine carefully and transferring the marks to the table. The hardest part about cutting the tabletop was the fear of messing it up. Just by carefully checking the Ebay listing, I was able to see this Singer 15 Clone could be turned into a treadle machine and it was already sewing beautifully! Making a Template to Cut the Tabletop
This motor attaches to the back of the machine with a few screws. This motor can be easily removed with a few screws or it can be bypassed as you see in the photo so the machine is running on the treadle belt instead.
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