Ditto, what Leon said, especially about water. Sewing machine oil on cotton ball or cotton cloth will clean it up. There is a thread
How to Clean Up and use a vintage sewing machine - videos by Muv and Fav about cleaning vintage & antique machines. (Leon, I think the winder is too short.
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A page that might help show some of the Eldredge & National associations can be found at
http://needlebar.org/nbwiki/index.ph...otary_Machines
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
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