charlee, There's a shop in Eugene, the guy has been there 37 yrs under his owner ship...
simple little things we forget ..
Last week, I ask hime about the springs in a foot pedal,, he looked lost and STARTED to say they don't have springs, Now I also had with me an old machine. He knows I'm always after old time stuff..
Upon see the look, I told him about that shop way back when , and the guy always had boxes of those springs, THEN, He remember the springs... he laughed and talked of the boxes he tossed out, He did dig a come up with about 6 springs...
I knew these would be hard to get , any of you going to these shop , should ask and buy what ever you can get.
This shop also has used machines, most are newer type, He did have a old dressmaker.. priced at $298 / 89 ? every thing else was just over 300 and all white box machines