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In between the fun stuff I promised to refurbish a few machines to give to a refugee reception center. The Husqvarna CB-N and series 8 and 12 straight stitchers are common here, I'd collected 4 freebies/cheap ones to see what I could get from them. Wonderful machines, by the way, will post a thread with a good one later.
I had high hopes for this particular CB-N because it turned really smoothly with the hand wheel, very little friction, just a very slight rasping sound I didn't recognize. Feed moved nicely, even dropped without any force. Quick job, I guessed.

After a couple of hours work on the wiring and cleaning the head - starting on the bobbin area, I finally eyeballed the hook assembly while turning the hand wheel. It didn't move.

Pictures tell the rest of the story. No wonder there was little friction. I prefer to believe that the person who listed the sm as functional in the giveaway section didn't know what he was doing.