Miriam, I love that Pfaff! Miriam, just sold it to me! I would be very happy if I only collected Pfaffs! I have stopped looking a Craigslist for a while! I am going to have to thin my heard of machines . . . just keep the ones I really like!
You will love the Two Spools too. Those machines are so much fun to use! That is one machine I will never part with! A little rust should not hurt, besides you know how to remove the rust! I have the Eldredge Two Spools and the National Two Spools, they are exactly the same - except for what is written on them!
As far as the treadle races, I bet I could take you all on! I have been treadling my 15-88 like crazy trying to FM quilt that piece-meal quilt I was making - which is now done! I got a work out - but, a really good work out using that treadle! It is really noisey, though, as it has a HC on it too. That means when I treadle fast the hand crank really clanks - and it is sitting behind the sofa in our great room where DH is watching TV and 'trying' to hear the TV with all the noise I was making!
Now maybe, I will have time to clean the Sterling and post photos of that machine!
Nancy