Originally Posted by
redmadder
Those repos may look like the original but it ends there. I paid $300 8 years ago. It never was right. It rattled and strained, couldn't adjust the tension. The tension assembly actually fell off. Maybe they can make the parts but they can't train the technicians who fiddled and filed and adjusted the old ones. My brother sold it for me for $60.
Redmatter, which repro did you get? A repro of the FW or a repro treadle? You know there is no way those repro's were made as well as the original. The cost of making an all metal machine with the engineering of the original design would not make it feasible. They 'look' similar, but that is where the reproduction part stops.
Nancy