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Hello again!
So today I was up in my thrifting stomping grounds searching for a Kenmore 158 series to go with my newly purchased cams. *see previous post* I did find one for $20 but it didn't go, the light did come on but there was no needle movement. Right next to that machine was a lovely Singer for $25. As a person with SMAD (Sewing Machine Addiction Disorder) I knew i had to limit myself to only one machine at a time and my hard budget limit for any machine is $30. So...I had to make a choice. I had only brought enough for one machine. Seeing how it takes me over an hour to get to my thrifting stomping grounds, I knew I couldn't come back with $$ for the other machine. I had to make a choice! The Singer or the Kenmore. I had orphan cams for both of them at home.
*hangs head*
I feel bad that I had to leave one behind... Seriously... just awful. I wish I could have bought both of them. LOL
Although I favor Kenmores, by like a lot! I have quite a few of the little buggers. I have one Brothers, and a Montgomery Ward Signature, a Dressmaker, a Riccar Treadle (inherited) *shrugs* Ok so i favor Kenmores and Japanese models over Singer's. It doesn't mean I don't like them... I do have two of them. A Fashionmate 237 and a Graduate something or other.
Now I have three of them. I'd like to introduce you to my latest machine baby, A Singer 328K Style-O- Matic. She's a dirty gal with sticky gears. She's missing a few bits and bobbles, the plastic thread spools, and the knob that turns and locks the thread stitch length. She runs pretty well and her light bulb did turned on. I had bought her cams in November of 2013 just because well, cams. haha. Turns out when I scoped her out there was a flat disk cam for zigzag still in the machine and I recognized it as belonging to the set I had bought already.
By going through this website:
http://www.ismacs.net/singer_sewing_...l-numbers.html
I have deduced that her birthday is coming up in exactly 1 week. She was 'born' on February 14, 1963, in Kilbowie Scotland (Great Britain). Labeled as a Heavy Duty Home machine. So she's a little over half a century years old. 51 years total. The only real complaint I found for her is that she is noisy. But i figured since she's spring loaded and has to click against the cams she deserves to be a bit on the noisy side. Her bones rattle a bit more than the newer gals. lol I have to figure out how to get in and oil her. Most kenmore's have their motors hanging on the outside She has her's inside. Something different for me to fiddle with.
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Here's more pics in this abum. :
http://imgur.com/a/1NtqP