Originally Posted by
juliasb
very nice looking machine! Have you tried it out yet? It looks like a nice consolation prize to me!

No, it will be a few days before I can do that. The machine does not move easily with the drive wheel off the handwheel, so I need to give it a good cleaning first. The other 117s spin very freely with no drive wheel pressure, so I am assuming this ought to be close to those.