My son is looking to get into sewing machine repair as a business. There's demand for it up here. But search engines in 2025 are shite.

Does anyone know any good resources? Things like old manuals, online communities, forums, wikis, YouTube channels.

For example, he's got a 1928 Singer that's binding. He seems to have good instincts about what's wrong with it, but he's been unable to find a manual. He's got several others he's tinkering with, and wants understand them and become the go-to person in this area with all the knows.

I've directed him to archive.org but I suspect it might not be organized on this topic and it won't offer much community.

Any resources would be appreciated!

[Tagging him: @bamboy ]

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@corbden @bamboy I'm living in the small town Wittenberge, Germany. Once upon a time it had Europe's biggest Singer manufacturing site.

The local museum has a huge collection of old sewing machines. I guess they also have manuals for these - or at least might point you to where you might find them.

https://www.wittenberge.de/verzeichnis/visitenkarte.php?mandat=50287&ved=2ahUKEwiYhN2VwdmNAxViQ_EDHVMLJeYQgU96BAgSEAQ (website is only in German but with their email address. hopefully someone might also speak English at the museum. Countryside Germany that's rather rare.)

Wittenberge - Uhrenturm Wittenberge

Bad Wilsnacker Straße 48 (Tor 2)19322 WittenbergeTel: (03877) 405266E-Mail: ...