A really nice person on the wefixit Yahoo group, Bob Cavenagh, has been incredibly helpful in obtaining information to put together a tabletop / stand configuration for the Consew 225. Among several vendors he recommended for ideas, Westchester Sewing Machine Co., out of New York, had most of the parts that I needed. So today I ordered the missing steel drawer, table pin, hinge hooks and plates and a three spool thread stand. Hopefully, they will come quickly and I can get this puppy working.

In the meantime, while I wait, I’ve glued up the 2 birch ply boards today and will begin the cutouts tommorrow. For a template, I used a scrap of packing styrofoam, cut out the tracing of the deepest portions of the base:

Into this, I set the machine on top, pressed really hard, and got an impression of the underside of the lip around the edges and those partial cutouts on each corner.
This is the resulting wax paper template (just for viewing):

The resulting dimensions are:

From the plywood, I will entirely remove an opening of 18″ wide and 6 1/4″ high.

To form a lip on the remaining edges, I will cut a template from masonite which measures: 19″ wide x 7″ high + the needed diameter of the base of my router.
The front edge lip (going into the remaining wood across the surface of the wood) will come in 3/8″
The left edge lip will come in 1/2″
The back edge lip will come in 1/2″
The right edge lip will come in 1/4″

Think rectangle inside of a rectangle with those being the reveals.

I’ll then attach a router, using the masonite as a guide, and route the inside lip edges to be at a depth of about 1/8″ except at the corners which will be oval shapes that sit a little higher – making them at a depth of about 1/16″. I was thinking at that point, I could cut 4 pieces of felt and glue those down at those corners, or 4 pieces of rubber (maybe the flannelized rubber I have will work for that) … this will just take some putzing around, I’m sure.

So, that is my plan for the week ahead.

If anyone else needs a template, I’ve scanned in what I’ve got so far from the wax paper.

Important:
This template has not been tested yet. I’ll make a note back here if it works out or doesn’t. So don’t go cutting out a hole yet, folks!

Just make sure when it prints you end up with those same dimensions mentioned above, as scanners and printers can often reprint to the size they like, not actual. One last note, the pins are spaced 13 3/8″ on center, with the left pin centering at 3″ in from the left side.

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