Put a New Heart in Your Featherweight
Is your Featherweight struggling? Her motor has worked faithfully for decades, but a vintage Featherweight is like a car with 200,000 miles on it. And you couldn't buy rewound motors anywhere… until now.
Meet the Featherweight Tru-Wound Motor: an original Singer motor, rewound with new copper—so your Featherweight runs like new again. Tested and ready to install.
The Hardest-Working Part You've Never Seen
Why a rewound motor? Because here's the thing about Featherweight motors: tucked inside your machine's little black housing is the armature: the core of the motor, wrapped in fine copper wire. This is the part that wears out. Decades of diligent sewing is hard on that copper wire!
The enamel that insulates the wire grows brittle, heat wears it down, and the motor gives up a little power at a time. Then one day you press the pedal to the floor, and your Featherweight noticeably struggles to keep up. It's not your technique—it's just tired old copper.
Give Your Featherweight Another Century
No more making do with a weary motor. No settling for a non-original replacement, either. When you buy the Tru-Wound motor, you're buying an original Singer motor that we've rewound ourselves. We stripped every inch of old copper wire off the armature, and wound new copper wire by hand, coil by coil. Then we balanced the motor (even the factory line didn't do this consistently) and tested it on a real Featherweight. Just listen to her hum!
Winding a Featherweight motor is something of a lost art. The knowledge died with the people who once did it in Singer's own factories, and it took us the better part of ten years to work it out again. To this day, we're the only Featherweight shop that rewinds motors.
- Motor
- An original Singer Featherweight motor, in its original housing
- Winding
- Armature stripped to bare steel, rewound by hand with new copper wire, then balanced
- Voltage
- 110 volts, for standard US outlets
- Fits
- Singer Featherweight 221 and 222. Also a good way to replace a 220-volt motor on a Featherweight that came from the UK.
- Tested
- Run on a real Featherweight before it ships
- What you get
- Your Tru-Wound motor, rewound in its original Singer housing and ready to install.
- Price
- $274.95
Back to Sewing in Two Steps
Order Your Motor
Your Tru-Wound motor ships from Idaho, tested and ready to install.
Swap It In
Once you take out your old motor, you know how to put the new one in. Just reverse the simple steps!
Hurry! Because we wind every motor by hand, stock is very limited. Get yours now before they're gone!
by The Featherweight Shop
Tru-Wound Featherweight Motor
Is your Featherweight struggling? A vintage Featherweight is like a car with 200,000 miles on it. Tucked inside the motor's little black housing is the armature, wrapped in fine copper wire, and decades of diligent sewing are hard on that wire. The motor gives up a little power at a time, until one day you press the pedal to the floor and your Featherweight noticeably struggles to keep up. It's not your technique—it's just tired old copper.
Tru-Wound means truly rewound. No more making do with a weary motor, and no settling for a non-original replacement. The Tru-Wound motor is an original Singer motor that we've rewound ourselves: every inch of old copper wire stripped off the armature, new copper wire wound by hand, coil by coil, then balanced and tested on a real Featherweight. Winding a Featherweight motor is something of a lost art. It took us the better part of ten years to work it out again, and we're the only Featherweight shop that rewinds motors.
Back to sewing in two steps
- Order your motor. It ships from Idaho, tested and ready to install.
- Swap it in. Once you take out your old motor, you know how to put the new one in. Just reverse the simple steps! Our step-by-step motor removal guide and video tutorial walk you through it.
Give your Featherweight another century. Because we wind every motor by hand, stock is very limited. Get yours now before they're gone!
What's included
- One Tru-Wound Featherweight motor, rewound in its original Singer housing
Model fit
- Singer Featherweight 221 and 222
- A good replacement for the 220-volt motor on a Featherweight that came from the UK
Specs
- Voltage: 110 volts, for standard US outlets
- Winding: armature stripped to bare steel, rewound by hand with new copper wire, then balanced
- Tested: run on a real Featherweight before it ships from Idaho
Prefer to read it? Motor removal, step by step. Once your old motor is out, reverse the steps to put your Tru-Wound motor in.
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