Mine can be run by hand when the power goes out. Not super-fast, but certainly better than needle and thread by candlelight.
“Mine can be run by hand when the power goes out.”
I learned to sew on a treadle Singer my Mom had. She made all my clothes until I went to college. One summer before graduating from high school, I took a Singer sewing course at their store and made a dress. I bought a Singer electric set in a French turned leg desk in about 1976 and made some of my clothes.
That fancy desk is about six steps from the chair I’m in now with the Singer inside. Just looking at the desk, wouldn’t know the machine is in there. I don’t know if it can be run by hand if power is out. I have the book for it, need to look at that.
In 1976, I would have never thought I needed to know if it would function by hand if necessary. Life was good in the 1970s-80s. No thought of the US crashing - no thought of a Marxist Muslim being president.