Funny you should bring this up. I've been working on two 27s this week. One appears to have been refurbished a long time ago. It has no medallion. Then upon close inspection it has filled in holes. The refurbish job was pretty good but there was paint on the clutch knob - it is peeling off. The machine had a bit of rust inside and took a while getting the guts to move. I did it and I am very impressed with the machine. There is no motor boss. It has a rear mount non-Singer motor and a small balance wheel both likely from the refurbish. This machine is beautiful and I bet it would sew through plywood... LOL And no, I'm not going to try. I think it was a conversion from treadle to electric and somewhere along the line it got set aside. Possibly refurbished and never sold? Just sitting around didn't do the insides any good though.
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The other machine was in seriously bad shape when I got it. I wondered if it would ever turn. I spent a lot of time freeing things up on it, too. It has a few things still to work on - very rusty inside still but it turns almost smooth. Once in a while I feel a glitch. I'm thinking some more work getting rust out of the guts... This one had the smaller treadle balance wheel and no they do not interchange from one machine to the other. This one has a motor boss. This one needs Glenn's finish refurb:
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Last edited by miriam; 01-01-2014 at 05:24 AM.