If it has sentimental value, why would you sell it? I have a few items that have sentimental value to them and I wouldn't sell them for a million dollars!!!

It can be done but it would cost a lot of time.

I'd bet real money that they stop looking for a restorer when they find out what a restorer will cost...especially on one that looks like that. Unless that one came to Oregon in the Conestoga wagon with great grandma I don't see how it'd ever be worth the cost.
Or am I not seeing something here?

EDIT: Person of low integrity could take a good machine - repaint it using matching decals - swap the number plate - let it sit on the shelf for a month and then call it done for $400.

We should each send them a bid. LOL How much is 10 or 12 hours worth???

Wouldn't there need to be a significant amount of expensive plating work that needs to be done?

yup - could run them some money... must have sentimental value.......

and the worst part is that they are INDUSTRIAL irons.... grrrrrrr

Aw darn Steve - I though that was an interesting art piece till you pointed that out...now...double Grrr...I could use those :-(

Steve, Thanks to your thread I noticed that. This ad has been coming and going for at least a year. But in theory the irons could be removed and and the "art" could use a different base. The irons will only become scarcer as time goes on, so in a way, is s/he preserving them for posterity?

I never liked that name either, but at the end of the day, I wasn't even close to being born when they named it. Not my call. ;) If it was, I would also have said a 15-90 and a 15-91 and a 201-2 and a 201-3 should have different enough names that people wouldn't mix them up.

There's an ad on kijiji here. It shows up every few months. It's a photo of a machine cabinet crammed into a very full closet (someone -might- have a shoe problem...) I emailed her once to ask what the machine was. She said she'd dig it out and email me back with a photo. I never heard from her again, but she's posted it 3 times since. I give up. I hope this machine doesn't suffer the same fate (too lazy to sell it)

Naw,.. I have too many projects at the moment. Someone else can and probably have to free up the stitch selectors. Or they can bring it to me, and I'll do it, but know that the machine will be gone when I'm done with it. ;)

What a creative way to ruin a set of irons!!