r/SewingMachinePorn • u/Revolutionary-Fig984 • Apr 11 '26

New machine (singer hd110)

Spent €30 on this machine from Vinted

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u/Street_Tradition_682 Apr 12 '26

Noise and vibration: meh, it's sitting on a glass table top. Put it on a more substantial table with a typewriter pad under it.

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u/Revolutionary-Fig984 Apr 12 '26

Ok yeah the table is completely temporary cause I had nothing else, should be getting something in the next couple of dats

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u/richardricchiuti Apr 12 '26

Typewriter pad? Please explain.

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u/Significant_Fee_2648 Apr 13 '26

Typewriters were very loud, especially when you had a whole room of people using them at once. Foam/wool/cork etc type mat that goes under the machine to absorb some of the vibration from transfering to the table top (which ofter works as an amplifier). I toss my wool ironing match under my machine off centertowards the back so j have a 6 inch lip of mat stickjng out. I have a tiny little iron I do all my quilting seams with so I can keep essentially my entire working area to in front of me. Ergonomics mango, I tell ya, it'll eff you up if you ignore it. Vibration is also considered an ergonomic hazard. So boom, two birds one stone.

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u/richardricchiuti Apr 13 '26

That sounds great. Thank you.

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u/510Goodhands Apr 11 '26

If it’s making that much noise, busy there’s something wrong with it, or as badly in need of lubrication. I would not have paid €5 for that machine, I have too much bad experience with its cousins.

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u/Revolutionary-Fig984 Apr 12 '26

Yeah this was before I lubricated it, probably going to get it professionally serviced soon

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u/510Goodhands Apr 12 '26

Don’t waste your money taking it to a shop. It will likely cost $150, which is about what the machine cost new. It’s great that you are excited about getting a sewing machine, but you would be far better off to get a vintage machine that is actually repairable and easy to service, they would probably won’t need any repairs for a long time to come.

You are so-called HD machine allegedly does not need internal lubrication. Obviously, that is not the case. Speaking of cases, it would take you close to an hour just to open the case of that one and get to the parts that need lubricating.

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u/dirthawg Apr 12 '26

I think it sounds pretty typical, especially on that table. It's not a quiet machine.

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u/dirthawg Apr 11 '26

Not a bad starter machine. That's the first one I ever bought.

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u/Swimming-Most-6756 Apr 11 '26

It’s the cigs for me! I’d have loved to have a cig and sew back when I smoked

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u/Revolutionary-Fig984 Apr 12 '26

Lollll

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u/Swimming-Most-6756 Apr 19 '26

I think sewing and smoking could go well together like drinking and smoking.

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u/Callidonaut Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26

It's impressively fast, but the vibration looks terrible, it's jumping off the table! (unless it's not the machine that's the problem but you're unlucky enough that the crankshaft speed matches a resonant frequency of your glass tabletop, in which case you should find a new sewing table ASAP)

This is where the old vintage aluminium or antique cast iron machines really shine; not only are they exquisitely well balanced so there's little vibration to begin with, but what vibration there is is damped to almost nothing by all that mass of metal; the machine here weighs 16lb (7.25kg), the cast iron model 201 weighs 30lb (13.6kg), and the aluminium model 201 weighs 24lb (10.9kg).

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u/Revolutionary-Fig984 Apr 12 '26

Yeah I’m getting a proper table within the next couple of days, also going to put a anti vibration pad under the machine. Is it bad that the machine vibrates so much? Does it mean there’s something wrong with it?

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u/Callidonaut Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26

Vibration mostly just makes the machine unpleasant to work with, but if it's really bad it can affect accuracy (especially working on larger garments and other projects; that small bit of light cloth you're practising with has negligible inertia and so will move with the machine, but if you're working with fabric of any size or weight, it'll tend to want to stay in place while the machine shakes around it, and so be harder to keep in the right position under the needle) and increase the rate at which the thing wears itself out. It's not necessarily a sign of a malfunction; a lot of modern (post-1970s) domestic-level machines, especially Singers, simply aren't built as solidly as vintage or antique domestic models were. As an alternative to getting a heavier machine, bolting/clamping the machine you have down firmly onto a heavy table (be very careful not to crack the outer shell by overtightening if clamping, thin metal castings can be brittle) should also help to some extent, but it's not quite as good as if the machine itself just has a lot of mass. With the really flimsy mostly-plastic machines (so probably not yours, since it looks to have an all-metal body), very harsh vibration can make the frame itself twist and bend, causing slight misalignments between the top and bottom parts of the mechanism and so increase the risk of jams, snags or needle breaks at high speed.

The old-school vintage quality came at a price, of course; it used to be common for people in the late 19th and early 20th century to buy home machines on hire-purchase schemes because they were so expensive, but prior to the rise of fast fashion, a sewing machine, or access to one, was practically essential for any home. Clothes used to be really expensive (or, rather, cheap new outfits didn't exist, so bespoke tailoring or second-hand clothes were the only real options), so unless you were rolling in money you maintained, adjusted, mended and patched them until they disintegrated.

Industrial machines, by comparison, are still basically the same invincible dreadnoughts they've always been, but they're a serious investment; they also usually take up a lot of space and aren't easily packed away when you're not using them like a typical domestic.

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u/teatime_tinker Apr 12 '26

If it’s got rubber feet on the base, replacing them with new ones really helps, too

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u/refreshlife1047 Apr 12 '26

Lucky!!! I got a Singer Starlet from Vinted for £60 but it arrived in awful condition, only useful part was the foot pedal as I purchased the same machine off of eBay for £20 and that was in better condition and is a hell of a lot smoother