Originally Posted by
manicmike
I have a theory as to why all the second hand 66s are missing the base plates: People find them and can't work out how to remove the base plate. They pull really hard on it, it comes off, and they can't put it back on (because they're trying to put it on the wrong way), therefore it must be broken. What do you do then? Throw it out of course!
Anyone have experience of this? I'd really like to know why they're all missing it.
I slid mom's plate too hard and it came off her crinkle 66. I didn't know how to put it back on and didn't think to read the manual. I threw it in my sewing box 30 years ago and it is still there to this day. So, there is a crinkle black 66 out there in the world without its slide plate and I have it. I'm keeping it now in case I run across a machine that needs one. So far, all of the machines I have bought have had their slide plates.