I have gotten a little bit more of the dried oil off, including the track that the shuttle carrier travels. The carrier will travel smoothly ALL the way through without any resistance at the ends. I didn't get very good pictures of the area where the feed dogs go. It has been cleaned up a bit more than what is shown below.
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I found a place that hadn't gotten cleaned up before I took the shuttle carrier out. Before ..
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and after ..
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What I found after cleaning the dried oil off the backside of the stitch length assembly - ( I still have some more to go with this. I still can't turn it.)
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Something I found kind of interesting is that the key that I have for my 99-13 and will work on my 27 (serial number allotted in 1903) will work on the bonnet for the Weed. I wonder how many different sizes of 'square' keys were made.
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to be continued
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.