Originally Posted by vintagemotif
It was interesting reading the ads, some are asking a lot of money for sad looking machines. There are some interesting machines in your area, lucky you. Did you pick up that Crinkle machine that the guy said he was going to throw away?
My DH picked it up, and he paid a whooping $8 for the machine! It is a 1931 White Rotary Electric Crinkle Embossed Black machine. It is actually very interesting looking. I wish I could turn it into a hand crank, but the hand wheel is not spoked. The guy took a sledge hammer to the cabinet after they got the machine so jammed up that it would not turn at all. My DH took the hook, race thingy off and took out a -- had to be about 17 -- weight thread jammed in there. Now it turns very nice, but with the cabinet wrecked we have no way to run the machine. It seems they run on some kind of cable with a knee control -- all part of the cabinet that we didn't get.
Nancy