Every time I see one of those machines that are in terrible shape and then are cleaned up, I call my hubby in to look at them on my computer. I'm just hoping that he'll decide that he/we could do something like that to some old machines. I thin it'd be a good hobby for him to try doing, if he would. And if he got a machine cheaply and it didn't come out like he liked, at least he tried and isn't out a lot of money. He's never been a tinker on things, but I think that now that we are retired, he could really get in to something like this. What do you think? In the mean time, I'll keep showing him all of your success stories.