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That purty little yeller machine didn't have rust and tarnish - it had grime and grunge (cleans with Awesome or Mean Green or Dawn) I spotted it just as soon as I walked into the third building the machines were stashed in. I thought Melinda was going to be very happy about that yellow machine. Anyway that was the pic I took when I got it home - that before shot... I sent it to Melinda... a diamond in the rough? It is surprisingly light weight - well, sort of. It turns real sweet too. Some machines just turn better than others. That one is really nice. Someone had done a motorectomy on it too. I kept getting delayed shipping it to Melinda - I did not have my act together at all. When my sister was here we cleaned up a few machines - very distracting.... The motor was found on a pink and gray machine. It didn't register until I went to bed that night - duh - that YELLOW motor on that pink and gray machine must go to the yellow machine. I shipped it the next day - it just needed to wait for the motor... I'm glad you like that one too Melinda - it was one of my favorites of the hoard.

I found one in the stash of machines I think I'm going to keep around. It is a real sweet running blue 15. I was playing around with it - that thing was stuck like glue. The whole bottom was covered in grease - thick grease - gobs of grease - who knows why??? The tension spring was messed up. Anyway, after I got it cleaned up it turns as sweet as that little yellow machine - Melinda will vouch for the yellow... Then I plugged it in - that thing goes!!!!!!!!! I love it. Then I found another one almost identical and it spits out bobbin cases. Just pukes them out. GGGRRRR.

Chrome cleaner polishes up pretty nice.

I went to my shop this afternoon to see if I had a cord that might work on the Pfaff and my DD showed up with the 5 GKs. Nothing like 4 of them loose in my shop. I forgot about the cord. EEEEEKKKKKKK. Miss M wanted to sew. So she helped me sort out a couple problems & clean up a recently acquired Singer 99. She insisted on using the screwdriver when we took out the throat place. She also used the goo gone on the places where the duct tape was. We got all but the tension ready to test drive it and my Mom and Dad showed up so we had to quit. We did an impromptu cookout and birthday party for my youngest son and my oldest GD, Miss G. After everybody left I finished the clean up and I figured out the tension - the spring was in wrong - she could have learned to do that too maybe. Another sweet little machine. Miss M wants so bad to learn to sew. Her momma says she has to get all the spoons CLEAN when she does the dishes first... eye roll... She sure did a good job brushing out lint and oiling - we had to pull a thread out of the shuttle area too. This kid has the patience to do some repairs!!! I'm thinking starting out getting to know the machine isn't a bad idea. All that because the other 99s bobbin winder wasn't working - the rubber doesn't meet the road for some reason.