Jon,
You are so right about retiring good sewing machines due to a lack of needles. If I could come up with a 100 or so of 16s and 18s I'd be set. I use more 14s than any other size.
All my 127x1s are size 16, all my MY 1014Bs are 12 and 14. So I need smaller 127s and larger MY1014s.
My other 9W-7 has already been altered to use 15x1 needles in addition to the 127x1 and MY1014Bs.
So I suppose I'll set it in the cabinet instead of the other one.
Joe