Originally Posted by
MFord
Yesterday was taken up by doctor's appointments for my mom. She is almost 87 and needs a full knee replacement. This is not going to be fun, I'm afraid!
Hi Margaret,
The poor thing. It's really lovely that she still sews at 87 though, and I'm sure that compared to some of life's hardships in the past 87 years she'll come through it.
Those late '60s/early '70s Singers are still pretty good machines. My daughter has a 498k and the two weaknesses are the nylon bobbin gears (which tend to break after 40 years or so and yes it did) and the auto buttonhole: If it hasn't been lubricated the reverse button wears down. Then the dial can't push reverse hard enough to backstitch properly and the threads knot up (I still think I should be able to fix it though). The temporary 'fix' is to turn the fabric around at the end and perform a second forward ZZ instead.