LOL Miriam, I usually do the before pics but forget to do the after pics. By then I am on to a new machine and excited to puzzle out it's problems. That 403 I grabbed this weekend sounds like your 301. It was not beat to death by a gramma. It was neglected, abused, over-oiled and dropped. There was oil in the motor, in the plug ends, throughout the machine and yet it was frozen. They must've been oiling all the wrong things. The motor struggled to rise and fall outside the machine and the handwheel paint is seriously chipped. Once cleaned up the machine looks pretty new. Aside from the gunky oil inside the bobbin case there wasn't the usual heavy clumps of lint. Poor neglected thing.
I would rather see a machine beat to death by gramma than a machine that was shoved in a corner and neglected.