Just a few nights ago, in reading a post on here ,, on which direction these standard turn, I put a piece of fabric in and turned the hand wheel, it will not pull the fabric, the dogs do go up and down, but not forward or back. a standard is very thighly built, I can not see around the bobbin, feed dogs ect and was hoping to not have to tear it down again, as they say the 10 time is a charm....
I just finish up a New home, I'll have time now to go back to the standard ....
I found out it's a lost cause to talk to sewing machine shops around this area...