My sister came in from Mesa so yesterday we gave Mom's 1948 FW the spa treatment for her Christmas present. We replaced the old cord and the rubber boots on the bottom of the machine & foot control. The machine still needs parts for the bobbin winder. Mom never had that machine serviced - she just kept squeezing oil into it. She claims she never took the throat plate off and cleaned the feed dogs - they were pretty full of lint. The machine was a college graduation present from her parents - she used it to sew a silk wedding dress - it was made from a WWII surplus parachute. She hand smocked the front of the dress and it had 200 covered buttons and loops down the back and a very long train. She later used the dress to line 2 coats... LOL I'm going to attempt to see if a pic will load but don't everybody go holding their breath... nope - well, I tried. I can't for the life of me figure out which buttons to push to make it fit. Bummer.