Really .... the presser foot should be left in the up position as several of you have mentioned? I am shocked by this. I have always thought that it needs to be in the down position so that the pressure is taken off the spring. That just sounds so logical to me that I have always done that ... but then I have always kept a piece of fabric under the foot also. Boy, the things one learns on this site! You guys are irreplaceable as far as knowledge goes. Anything else I should know to stop doing that I have been doing for way too long (other than eating chocolate)? Guess I'll find out eventually since I always read the Vintage/Antique threads.
I do keep my machines in a controlled atmosphere. In the studio that we built a year or so ago, the heater/cooler is set at 60 in the winter (I turn it up to 65 if I get chilly while out there working) and 78 in the summer so I am guessing that they are all going to be okay. It is nice a dry and well insulated so that should be good too.
Last edited by KLO; 02-09-2015 at 11:00 AM.