Charlee,
Looks like that's what I'll be doing pretty soon. As you watch the machine running slowly you can see the motor rocking back and forth as the flat spots on the drive roll over the hand wheel.
Last night after she got home from work my wife and I did some testing to see what the machine would do.
The first thing I did was reverse the tension spring. I had it in like it was originally, but rotated 180° from where it was. Made a heck of a difference.
She came up with some rolled hems from the legs of jeans. About three layers of heavy denim. Went through the first one like it wasn't there. So as it was sewing I stuck another hemmed piece in front of the presser foot and it went up and over it and sewed right through it just fine.
So we know this machine will sew through 6 layers of heavy denim on it's own. That is nothing to complain about.
I think this little machine has found itself a home with all our others.
Just gotta think of a name for her.
Joe