I will only give up on a machine and call it yard art when it's totally beyond repair, for example the beautiful Chinese made Ideal clone that I got to put the case with another machine. The machines under parts for the bobbin race was poorly made and is broken in half, it's beyond repair. Out of 70+ machines this is the only one I've stripped for parts. I've sold or given away some other machines that were beyond my ability to fix or I just wasn't interested in fixing. I gave a friend a very nice 1920s Singer 99 in a bentwood case that only needed the wires to the motor replaced. He put a hand crank on it and uses it for his daughters 4H sewing classes. I've also given away a rust bucket White that can be brought back to life, I just lost interest in it. I've got a few machines that need a part that I'll find eventually. I won't give up on them if they can be put back into service even if it takes a long time to find the right parts.
Here where I live there are so many vintage machine enthusiasts that there is almost always someone willing to take on a project machine that someone else doesn't want. Here in the PNW very few make it to the landfill.
Cari
Last edited by Cari-in-Oly; 11-01-2017 at 08:44 PM.