Originally Posted by mountain deb
The flip side to this is the knknown factor. Two years ago, I bought an old viking machine at an auction. Took it in to have it cleaned and checked. I was told the sad news, it would have cost me $250 or more for parts and labor to have it up and running. It went to the sewing machine graveyard at his store for parts.
Too bad. I took mine in and was told $350 to fix it. Or I could trade it in. hmm. Took and walked out. 3 years later I came across the yahoo group for vintage Vikings . It was my buttonholer knob that froze up. They helped me fix it and its working again. Then I got into vintage machines and haven't used it. lol I was using the old Singers and a Household machine I found in a thrift store. Viking still works. Just no room for it anymore.