Taralynn, here is another QB link for you http://www.quiltingboard.com/vintage...e-t207416.html . We are even interested in the undersides!

I love the clones. Yesterday a man brought back an old black clone he bought from me 5 months ago. He was having trouble. It wouldn't sew through his stuff. Well, it was some kind of treated awning material. I messed with it awhile. He had the presser foot pressure off, the feed dogs were sort of dropped and he had messed up the tension, top and bottom and needle in backwards. I got it all set up and he spied a hand crank I had setting there and we popped it on the clone. Oh my - hot rodding with that. He ended up buying the hand crank set up. (Now I want one on a clone, too.) It was like getting some real horse power going through the heavy stuff - I got it through a few layers of denim and then we got the awning material out - I suggested that he get a bigger needle but the machine went through just fine.

I just finished cleaning out fuzz and I think food from my Universal machine, now am ready to oil and grease. But don't really know where to grease. Should I use just oil on everything but motor. Or is there places that need grease? And it is a JA23 with a Matsushit motor(whatever that means), made in Japan.

You grease gears - I haven't seen any gears on a 15. You oil places that move.

O, ok. Thanks.

Gorgeous & Sleek
 

I'm really new and hope I'm doing this correctly,,, Singer 15 is gorgeous and clone sleek-at least in my opinion :). Singer 15 & parlor cabinet 31 arrived home this past Monday. I brought home my clone this morning.

both are very pretty machines. You got the pictures better than I do!

WOW! Two beautiful machines. Even the dog is mesmerized!
~G~

White Rotary 659. Made by Juki, and utilizes a rotary thread pickup system.

Works, but needs a power cord/foot controller, a part for the bobbin winder, and maybe a bottom lamp shield.

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Stitchy
 

Meet Stitchy the Stitchmaster. I found him at a thrift store, with a Singer button footpedal. He did not work in the standard old-time wooden "portable" box, because the oscillating hook would hit the bottom of the box as it swung side to side. Plus his cord was frayed with bare wire showing! Today we put him in the cabinet from a different thrift store. Did I mention I replaced the button footpedal with a different Singer footpedal, oh dear, that was from a THIRD thrift store! Who wants to go shopping with me?