Old 11-10-2011, 10:40 AM
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Lostn51
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Originally Posted by cabbagepatchkid View Post
I have been following this New Home treadle machine, on Craigslist, and the price finally dropped to $50.00 so I put in a call about it. The man was even advertising free delivery and he dropped it off yesterday. He said that it had belonged to his grandmother and they had been using it as a piece of furniture.

It has an interesting decal on the bed of the machine. There is a greyhound type dog with the words "light running". I wonder what that meant? There is a bit of rust on some of the metal pieces that I'm hoping to get off but I'm not having much luck with the bobbin winder, which I have already tried polishing. There is some pitting and corrosion under the rust. Either way, it's a beauty and is now adorning the space under my kitchen window.
New Home took a lot less effort to run in a treadle than some of the other machines hence the "light running" in their advertizing. Plus they had a lot less moving parts to the machine vs the other manufacturers. The machine that you have has the nice and more hard to come by decals and they look really good, but be careful when you clean the machine because the the finish is crazing really bad. But that is a super machine to have in any collection even with the japan missing on the front of the bed!

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