Singer 66 and some questions in general
As I've posted before since finding this awesome board (esp the pictures) my mom had bought several old machines- mostly Singer- in the 5 years or so before she passed. I finally brought them down to my home and am trying to find space for them all. One I saw briefly and thought 'yuck' and again last night when I was taking its cabinet up and realized which machine had been in it. Turns out it's a Singer 66 with that rough finish- godzilla? I also noticed it has a black tension know - thought maybe I had one of those blacksides I heard about recently when I saw the know but the other stuff is regular looking. I guess maybe they replaced it or were using up leftover parts as they had them? I'm still trying to adjust to this machine's appearance - it doesn't look 'friendly' like the nice shiny black ones - it looks 'mean' - I know I know doesn't make sense but this machine intimidates me more than the others! It also has a centennial thingy on it - badge? I'm wondering if this finish is popular? I'm not planning on selling it and I know tons of 66s were made. I hven't tried sewing on it yet - so far I've only tested a few of her machines and reallly love the 15-90 - it's so beautiful - but need to read up on cleaning and all that maintenance stuff.
so is this finish popular?
also looking through the photos in the different stickies I saw an awesome machine - think it was a 28/27/127/128 and had yellowish flowers seems like - in another place the same machine showed up and someone said it was called 'dogwood' or some other kind of flower. I looked up on wikepedia and think the same design had 'roses' in the name. I'm guessing that's a pretty rare/expensive machine since I've never seen that design? I only know of one place to buy old machines and they mostly have featherweights though she has a book and tries to keep track of what people are looking for. otherwise ebay is the only place I know to look and of course everything is 'rare'.
oh and another question/thought - how good are these screws at holding a machine when it's folded down in the cabinet? if it folds and doesnt' drop out does that mean it's probably okey dokey? I'm on night shift so was sleeping today andwoke up as usual and saw my dog lying on the floor with her entire head under godzilla's cabinet! I freaked and found a chair to put under it just in case - of course it blocked where she wanted and she was a bit miffed at me but I had this horrible image of waking up to find her crushed by a machine :-(