Thread: Have a fw at repair shop...can it be restored to use?
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Old 12-11-2014, 06:25 AM
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Mousie
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Originally Posted by J Miller
Featherweights are simple machines. You could have saved yourself lots of cash by doing most of the cleaning yourself.
But, if the repairman is as good as you think he is, he shouldn't have any trouble cleaning it up.

It just takes time, and effort plus some oil and grease.

Joe
the bottom of my machine was all white and chalky looking.
This made me think the machine was "cast" and heated? dried?
After seeing a picture of the bottom of one, I think there was some kind
of foreign material on it, maybe.
This wait is going to be agonizing as I've already fallen in machine-love.
Perhaps I'm just so ignorant of antiques and such I am worrying too
much.
Thank you for replying. I feel like such a newbie.
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