Originally Posted by
Patricia M.
I cleaned ONE machine for a friend, got hooked and now own 15 machines. They really need to find a new home. The ladies I sew with just want the lightweight ones. Hard to give away once they show up in your house.
Let your local 4-H groups know about your addiction. I give away about 4 - 5 a year for new sewers. They think I am well versed in sewing machine repair, but my most valuable tools are Q-tips and tri-flow. Some of the machines were given to me by women who's idea of cleaning it out is to just brush away a bit of lint from the feed dog area. Enough lint builts up in there that at first glance it looks like a dead mouse. I've been trying to cut back on acquisitions, but the last one was a 201 in a cabinet that I looked at in Goodwill and told my enabler husband that they were asking too much for it at $43. I came home and did an online search for information on it, then went back the next day and bought it, probably paying the same amount for gasoline for the car.
There is no cure.