We've started cleaning her up. It looks like she's going to be a beauty! You should see all the dirt that's coming off. Whew! I love seeing shiny silver or black gleaming through through the dirt! :mrgreen: I'm cleaning little parts and shining up the cabinet while DH is working on the machine itself. So far, the cabinet's finish isn't as icky as I thought. It's solid as a rock structurally, but the finish looked pretty bad until I started working on it. Unless I run across a surprise, I don't think it'll really even "need" refinishing. Yay! And so far, we've only found one small bad place in the paint on the sewing machine. DH wants to repaint it (he's an industrial painter and is a total perfectionist about it, so any bad spot bothers him), but I'm not sure how we'd replace the labels.
Instead of ordering the parts, I went another route. I found a deal on an identical machine on eBay ... one that's complete, has been recently rewired and is supposed to be in good working order ... so I snagged it up. It only costed a little more than the parts would have been buying them separately. It's supposed to be here on Wednesday. I figure we can borrow its power cord once DH gets the wiring redone on my Mammaw's machine, and see if hers works and/or what else it needs. And in the meantime, I'll have a working machine that I can sew on and get used to. :mrgreen:
I'm going to need a name for her. Hmmm. I've never named any of my other machines, but I think my Mammaw's will deserve one. :-) Her name was Mildred, but I'm not a big fan of that name (sorry, Mammaw and any other Mildreds that might be out there!). :oops: I'll have to think on it. :-)