jennb, thank you for the links. I'll go and take a look at them. I just joined the two Davis groups I found. I have to learn how to refinish the cabinet.
jljack, thanks for the tips on cleaning the machine. I found it on craigslist, someone was offering 4 treadle machines for 100.00 and I dragged my hubby out to look at them as soon as I realized that one of them was a Davis. There's also a New Home built in 1910, and two Singer 66s which I haven't really looked closely at yet but they both have the 7 drawer cabinets and the middle drawers aren't broken, I'm picking those two up today, you can't really kill an old Singer. He was cleaning out a house and found them in the garage. They're mine, even my dh thought it was a good deal!