Does anyone else buy machines solely for parts to another machine?
I put a $10 bid on an online auction on a Florence Rotary, for parts to my World's Rotary. The Florence is in pretty clean shape, but has no cabinet or even bobbins. Someone converted it to electric in a way that would make any electrician shutter. (Easy fix.) Whilst my World's Rotary has a cabinet, that I am stripping down and restaining, several bobbins, plus a history that we were told about when we bought it, it's very rusted and showing it's age. I've been looking for parts for it for over a year and then found the Florence yesterday.
My DH now want me to restore the Florence and the World's. I do feel bad using a machine solely for parts, especially as these sets of decals on both of them are rather uncommon.
Maybe I could use the Florence Rotary as a talking piece on the mantle, after I have taken what I need? Or I could begin the search again, for parts for the Florence, that where taken off for the World's... Ummm, no.
What I am doing isn't against all VSM restoration code, is it?
