Originally Posted by
BoJangles
Grant, I have seen your work over and over again and it always amazes me! What did you use on that Singer 239 to make it look like new? Are you just stringing us along and those are really two different machines! It is amazing to me that anyone could get a machine as gross looking as that 239 was to look as nice as you got it to look! I usually pass up a machine that looks like that one did, thinking it is a lost cause!
Nancy
Nancy, Thank you. Mostly it was just dirt, oil, and grease. I'm not stringing you along. I don't want to point out the flaws, but if you look at the After pictures and find a flaw and go back to the Before pic, you can see that it is the same machine. On this particular machine I just wanted the cabinet so I got it. It came with a free machine. A very dirty free machine. I guess I just have a soft spot for the misfit toys.
Interesting side story on this machine and cabinet. When I picked it up it was missing the Drawer on the cabinet. It was missing the Slideplate, Bobbin Case, and a Bobbin too. I have spares for the machine parts but was going to have to call in a favor to have a drawer made. A few days after I picked it up I got an e-mail from the seller. She found the Drawer. I picked it up and the slideplate, Bobbin Case and Bobbin were in the drawer. Nice. I am so glad that she didn't just toss it all out. A lot of people would have.
~G~