Miriam,
I wanna play with it for a while then we'll see about that.
Grant,
I cleaned a bunch more crud and lint out of the bobbin area and for a few moments it was sewing real nice stitches. Than I noticed the top tension had been turned to 0. I reset it to 3 and it did about an inch and crunched the thread. So my next step is to take the top tension off and clean it. Then go from there.
The needle is in flat to the rear, of that I am sure.
Joe