101 Update
My DD found another OSMG to work on her first Singer 29-4 patch machine and her Elna 7300. So I decided that rather mess with the motor and electrical connections myself on the 101 I would take it to him for the repairs. He quoted me $55 to service and repair/fix the electrical connections. As far as I was concerned that was a done deal. I hate messing with anything electrical because I was almost electrocuted when I was a kid.
What a character he is. If anyone has a mental idea as to what an OSMG looks like, then this guy is it. As he was looking over the machine head and cabinet, he kept saying OK, OK, hmmm, hmmm, easy easy. Just like a doctor, but better, he can fix my sewing machine!
Then he had a couple of "Singer Bibles" that he kept referencing. I did not want to get tooo pushy and ask him what those Singer books were (for once I had to restrain myself) as it was the first time he was doing repairs for me. I am thinking, to myself of course, that I really NEED, really WANT, some of those Singer reference books. I am hoping that when I go to pick up my sewing machine that I can look at those books, and he may have some others laying around that he would part with. He used to have his own sewing and vacuum store and now does work out of his house.
Then he began telling me that he has a whole addition built on the back of his house full of old machines and stuff that had been in his store. Gave me goose bumps. Again I had to restrain myself to not show my excitement. I felt like a racehorse at the starting gate, I was rearing to go and go see this stuff. Can't you just see me chomping on the bit? But I will do that when I pick up the 101. He and his wife have sewing machines stuffed all over the place. Then his wife mentioned that she has SEVERAL 301s that she might part with. Yikes, I want at least one. Will wait till the next visit to get serious about her 301s.
As another note, my DD took her Elna 7300 Quilting Queen Pro to him because after paying over $200 to have it serviced and repaired at another place two months ago ( I posted a thread about the service cost a couple of months ago on the QB) the sewing machine was still not operating properly. He charged her $55 but it now works. And he found that it still needed cleaning underneath and even found a broken sewing machine needle in the underneath. Makes one wonder about the Quality of the work of the first repair shop.