Originally Posted by
Cari-in-Oly
No rodent parts seen, though she is a hunter. LOL, she sits under the bird houses on my neighbors' deck like she's at a buffet.
A few years ago, we put out a bird feeder because I saw so many around in the summer and wanted them to have food for our really cold winters. Shortly after, we and the neighbor started finding the odd dead bird in our yards. We blamed the neighborhood cats, til the day I saw the mated pair of Merlins on the light post across the street. Turns out, I'd basically opened a buffet for them.
Originally Posted by
Mrs. SewNSew
I've had quite a few that were marked by cats. I tried to get to the worse ones first to get the odor under control and it's heck on the paint!
If it's not a shellac machine, I use a solution of 1 cup Peroxide, 1/4 cup of baking soda and a tiny bit of hand soap. Put it in a spray bottle and spray it on
non-electrical parts and let it dry then clean it off the way you would any other machine. It's best to do this first, because you'll want to take apart and clean anything that would get overspray like tensioners to make sure they dry 100% before reassembly.
What I want to know is what makes a cat mark a sewing machine? Laundry, I get. Even the corner carpet. A sewing machine? I can't figure that one out, but it's obviously common.
Originally Posted by
miriam
LOL Seems like a straight stitch machine can most likely be made to work if all the parts are there.
I've never had a SS parts machine. I'll clean them up to see the shape of the parts and invariably end up fixing it. I know you get much worse machines than I do though.