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Hello!
I have just recently acquired another Singer 15-91, with a potted motor. She's in rough shape and was about to be put in the rubbish heap! *gasp* Of course me know what gems these gals can be I promptly snatched her up in her *whispers* plastic case, and brought her home!
If machines were in hospitals she would have been put on the Critical Care wing. This is a peek of what I first saw when I cracked her open today. It's the before and after. I really just only puzzled out the bobbin area while the rest of the machine received liberal dosing of oil. It took all day just to get her moving, stiffly. So on goes more oil while doing a wire brush down under the deck. She looks like she was a survivor of a flood.
The wiring is terrible and terrifying, luckily she's so rusty that I didn't even try to plug her in. She couldn't even move if she wanted to, she jiggled a bit but there was no needle movement. If you know where i can find the brass connectors for the inside of bakelite connector I would be most appreciative. I don't even wanna think about the state of the motor...yet.
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After:
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The bobbin case is stuck so it's soaking tonight.
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Serial Number: JC756737, I could only narrow down the year of 1948 via the mysingerstory.com site. Finding the month would be great. I couldn't find it on the ISMACS.net site. It looks like i have 2, 1948 ladies.
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As always, here's an album with more, HQ photos. They're still being uploaded so by Monday evening it should be all sorted out.
http://imgur.com/a/RuelQ
I'll keep you posted on the motor and other bits as I get to them.