Originally Posted by
SteveH
Congrats! Awesome beauty. One of the things I like the most about picking up a new/old machine is the feel and the smell. Sure, some are GROSS but most feel and smell like the inside of an old car... same "aged" thing.....
Totally, Steve! I was noticing that last night when I was looking "under the hood" - full of old dust and stuff. I noticed on the old manual it says "use only the very best refined sperm oil" ..... so maybe that smell is muddled in with the ghostly tears of 19th century whales?