I put one of the two needles from the drawer in and tried to get it to stitch. I failed, but one of my vintage sewing colleagues pointed out that transverse-shuttle machines (shuttle moves <--> left and right) need the long groove to the FRONT. Oh yeah! Can't wait to go back and try again.

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The needle clamp is pretty interesting. The needle goes through the piece to the left, which is then inserted in the needlebar and tightened by a wing-headed nut. It has a needle stop, so unlike my Singer 13/Medium, there is no messing about setting the needle height with a pin through the eye.

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I took photos of the Whitehill's attachment set (by Johnston Ruffler Co) yesterday and worked out how the needle clamp worked.

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