Hello, Singer Featherweight 160 $ is good deal?
02-12-2014, 02:41 PM
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Hola Marta...
Guess what...I just got a Centennial FW too! It arrived today and I'm so excited! I didn't know it was a Centennial when I bought it, so that was a nice surprise. It's a 1951 and it has the same, striated plate like yours, not the scrolled one. You definitely got a fabulous deal on yours. Mine is beautiful except for one serious flaw. It appears that it may have been in a flood and the paint is peeling away from the lower edge of the base. I'll post pix when I can. I paid almost exactly the same price as you did, about $161 and I didn't get a case, or accessories with it, so I really think that you made out! Yeah!
I'm going to hop over to Skip/Glenn's thread about redoing the painted surface on sewing machines. I think that I can fix mine to look pretty good with some advice and patience. Good luck with your new treasure!
~Cindy
Guess what...I just got a Centennial FW too! It arrived today and I'm so excited! I didn't know it was a Centennial when I bought it, so that was a nice surprise. It's a 1951 and it has the same, striated plate like yours, not the scrolled one. You definitely got a fabulous deal on yours. Mine is beautiful except for one serious flaw. It appears that it may have been in a flood and the paint is peeling away from the lower edge of the base. I'll post pix when I can. I paid almost exactly the same price as you did, about $161 and I didn't get a case, or accessories with it, so I really think that you made out! Yeah!
I'm going to hop over to Skip/Glenn's thread about redoing the painted surface on sewing machines. I think that I can fix mine to look pretty good with some advice and patience. Good luck with your new treasure!
~Cindy
02-13-2014, 12:29 AM
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Originally Posted by tropit
Hola Marta...
Guess what...I just got a Centennial FW too! It arrived today and I'm so excited! I didn't know it was a Centennial when I bought it, so that was a nice surprise. It's a 1951 and it has the same, striated plate like yours, not the scrolled one. You definitely got a fabulous deal on yours. Mine is beautiful except for one serious flaw. It appears that it may have been in a flood and the paint is peeling away from the lower edge of the base. I'll post pix when I can. I paid almost exactly the same price as you did, about $161 and I didn't get a case, or accessories with it, so I really think that you made out! Yeah!
I'm going to hop over to Skip/Glenn's thread about redoing the painted surface on sewing machines. I think that I can fix mine to look pretty good with some advice and patience. Good luck with your new treasure!
~Cindy
Guess what...I just got a Centennial FW too! It arrived today and I'm so excited! I didn't know it was a Centennial when I bought it, so that was a nice surprise. It's a 1951 and it has the same, striated plate like yours, not the scrolled one. You definitely got a fabulous deal on yours. Mine is beautiful except for one serious flaw. It appears that it may have been in a flood and the paint is peeling away from the lower edge of the base. I'll post pix when I can. I paid almost exactly the same price as you did, about $161 and I didn't get a case, or accessories with it, so I really think that you made out! Yeah!
I'm going to hop over to Skip/Glenn's thread about redoing the painted surface on sewing machines. I think that I can fix mine to look pretty good with some advice and patience. Good luck with your new treasure!
~Cindy
I'm very interested in follow any advice about restoration, clean and service of the FW, because mine has flaws too, the Singer Manufac... back decal is barely visible and the paint has some damage and heavy scratchs I think they were due because the tension conversor (125 to 220 V) rested beside the machine unprotected.
.Cindy we'll take care of ours "babies" beautifully!!!
02-13-2014, 03:32 AM
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Originally Posted by ArchaicArcane
I don't think that site is correct. In my experience, the striated plate replaced the floral....
Of course, there’s no way of knowing if they all had their original face plates when I got them, but I believe that they did.
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