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Article Sixteen
"Birthdate Featherweights and Our Girls"
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"Birthdate Featherweights and Our Girls"
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Nova's Featherweight Repair Class
August 25, 26 & 27, 2021
This is a professional level workshop designed for those wanting to repair Singer Featherweights for the public in their area. It is a hands-on, three day workshop. All aspects of normal repair will be addressed including:
- diagnosing issues
- motor belt changing
- tension assembly - all three styles
- bobbin case repair
- motor cleaning and armature polishing
- rewiring the electrical receptacle
- rewiring the foot controller- both "button" styles and clam shell style
- foot controller adjustments
- rewiring the original Singer bakelite "S" plug
- replacing a light fixture
- replacing a light switch
- rewiring "white" machines that are hard wired
- skipped stitches
- machine timing
- extreme cases (i.e. submerged machines, etc.)
Also covered in the workshop will be good business practices in dealing with machines belonging to others.
Lunch will be provided all three days.
This is intended to be a "hands on" workshop because greater learning and retention is achieved through the student's participation. You will need to bring a machine to work on. You will be opening the motor, rewiring, etc. Keep in mind you will be learning / practicing - there is a possibility something could go wrong and the machine not function at the end of the workshop. Auditors are welcome, but the same fees will apply.
There is limited seating for this workshop. This will be a small class.
There is a REQUIRED tool kit (tool kit fee) that Nova will provide. There is also a SUPPLY LIST. Click here to download the Supply List.
This workshop is intended to be a general knowledge workshop and not intended to address any specific machine's issues that is brought to the workshop.
Also included in the registration fee will be one year of your listing on Nova's Featherweight Repair Directory page (other conditions being met).
SPECIAL NOTE:
Nova's Featherweight Maintenance Workshop (taken within the past 6 years) is a prerequisite for this workshop. There will be NO exceptions.
If you choose to register for this workshop and you have not had Nova's Featherweight Maintenance Workshop (maintenance workshops from other sources DO NOT count!) within the past 6 years, you will forfeit your entire registration fee. NO EXCEPTIONS!
Why? Nova is regularly told that Nova's Featherweight Maintenance Workshop is more inclusive than "the other guys" three day workshop. It will be important that everyone begins on the same page for the Repair Workshop. Nova will not have time to re-address all the information provided in Nova's Featherweight Maintenance Workshop.
Nova's standard Refund Policy will apply in all other cases. Read it below.
Location:
La Quinta Inn and Suites
1620 Rotan Rd, Mt Pleasant, TX 75455
Time:
9 AM - 5 PM all three days
Refund Policy for Workshop Seats
Her policy is that a 50% refund will be given up to one month prior to the class, with no refund after that. No 'credit' for a future class can be given due to the complexities that arise with contracts, scheduling, waiting lists, etc.
Switching dates, for any reason, will incur a 25% fee due to the difficulty in restoring seat availability, rosters, etc.
Prerequisite for THIS WORKSHOP is Nova's Featherweight Maintenance Workshop within the past six years (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, or 2021). If you have NOT had Nova's Featherweight Maintenance Workshop within the past six years, and you register anyway, you will forfeit your ENTIRE registration fee. NO EXCEPTIONS!!!!
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