It amazes me how many of these machines were put into a shed or back porch or worse, just outside. One time I was watching a tv show about the sewing machine and it was said the home sewing machine was the second most important purchase for the family up through the 1950's. It was behind the washing machine. (They said not everyone needed a car but they needed the sewing machine.) So to be so abusive to such an items just is incredible to me.