It is great to know that others have hung onto some of those older sewing machines, they have been great work horses and still work well. I am planning to have work done on my Grandmother's Machine so I can utilize it for free motion quilting. It is filled with dust from the dirt road that went by the side of her house, but it sews like a pro -- the foot pedal needs to be replaced and I understand that the newer pedals can be used. It also has some very great attachments --- there is a very neat pleater, the lacks of which I have never before seen, it works GREAT and I call it the contraption. The brand is Atlas and I looked on the net for this; info I found indicates that Atlas has something to do with some heavy duty tailoring. My grandmother never quilted on this, but she was a perfectionist in everything except housekeeping. Now that I am a grandmother and helping my daughter with her children, I understand that if I want to have a life other than cooking, laundry, cleaning house, I cannot maintain my home to the standards of my younger years -- but who cares --- I bet my granddaughter will not remember how much dust was on the top of the refrigerator when we were sewing on her quilts.