Originally Posted by
krista
It doesn't come with the cabinet. She uses the wheel by hand. Thanks.
If the machine is in a cabinet that you run the machine with a foot pedal it's a treadle. If you operate the machine with a knob attached to the handwheel, it's a handcrank. (bit of trivia, the only difference between a 66-1 and a 66-3 is that the 66-1 is in a treadle cabinet, the 66-3 is "portable" and is a handcrank.) If the machine is in a cabinet, and she's only selling the machine head, you're going to need a base of some kind.
None of us answered one of your first questions... the 66's are wonderful machines for piecing, whether it's treadle or handcrank. Glenn FMQs with his 66 treadle. I think that to actually quilt with a handcrank would be difficult, I haven't tried it with mine.