Originally Posted by
Macybaby
I don't blame a lot of sellers, I blame the service guys who tell them it's not worth fixing, and they should just by a new machine.
Some of my best scores have been 70 - 80 year old machines that appear to be almost unused, and they have something jammed up into the bobbin case - once removed, they sew perfectly!
I've also gotten a few prestine parlor cabinets and machines. I know these weren't cheap when new, so I like to imagine the wealthy husband being talked into buying one for his wife - and then having her look at it and say 'Me? Sew? That is what I pay my seamstress to do for me!" And the machine got put in a room and never used.
I have seen really impacted bobbin areas on a lot of the machines I get cheap - they don't like to sew when they are that dirty. I've also gotten very nice machines with messed over tensions. I would say those two areas are what I see most often. Many people don't know how to fix either one.