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Old 05-19-2014, 07:03 AM
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Cathienut, I hated to see you pass up a 201, no matter the shape. Those potted motors come at a premium, even IF.
I recently went through a bad spell with this type of hunt. My 201 that I had for sale went haywire on me--the motor quit right in the middle of sewing a seam--just stopped--and wouldn't move another stitch. My son figured it out, but only after we went cyber hunting for one; ($100 or so) and he had to take it apart and take it down to a machinist in town that owed him a favor. They did something like "rewinding" and he did the thorough clean and oil and grease thing and it worked. A friend of mine bought that machine in a 4-legged cabinet for $75. She loves it.
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