Originally Posted by
margiepc
I am thinking of buying a featherweight and wondered if there is anything I should be on the lookout for. Any help would be appreciated.
The most important thing is to try out the machine to see how it runs before you purchase if it is local to you. I have worked on several machines that were purchased from ebay and at first glance looked like there was an issue, but 99.9% of the time, it was a quick and easy fix. There was one machine that was on its third owner and had a little piece of metal that was inside and rubbing on the belt so that it would not turn easily. Turned out that a little filing removed it and it was a functional great machine. Made me wonder why the other two people never checked out what was impeding the belt and deal with it. Took maybe 5 minutes to fix.