Originally Posted by
tscweaves
Personally for that money or less, find a vintage Featherweight or a Singer 301 to use as a portable. Both of these machines have metal gears, are able to be completely maintained by the owner, a sew a beautiful stitch. IMO, modern Singers are not worth the name and trying to capitalize on the known traits of the original Featherweight is not a good thing.
This is my thought. I haven't run across anyone with a modern Singer that didn't have a lot of trouble with it.