she has been a challenge, she did ask on day one to be dressed up again, sooooooo
last night Ooooooooooooo Boy O boy she came alive, woke up from the years in that pile.
This machine has been highly used , she has a groove on the shuttle race, all the cone bearings show grooving. so she has done a lot of work in her day. you see what she looked like at the end of that day..
after many evening adjusting her pivots / bearings , I had her quite and smooth, yet it seemed that doing longer seams ( 3/4 feet), it would heat up and slow down = pain in the leg. I would loosen a pivot a hair.
finally lastnight it was loosen the pitman, this uses a wooden pitman . the top is the only adjustment point. it's the holes with a sawen split and wood screw adjuster.. a 1/8 of a turn looser and bingo.
now she's updated to run modern threads and a modern needle , her aches and pains are going away.. we played sewing machine until 3 am
now if she didn't use up her Bobbin thread so fast. she doing great with her barrowed parts. has almost sewn a twin size quilt top.