Welcome and congratulations on VF. I don't have one, but there are a few links that might help and from my understanding there is a Davis VF group on Facebook. At
Davis Vertical Feed Treadle Leon posted a picture of two springs in the face plate.
From
Davis VF1 (New High Arm) treadle 1885-1886 there is also a spring between the foot bar and presser bar.
I also did a search for
Davis VF "compression spring" faceplate and found a thread on another forum that might be helpful, but didn't see a picture like Leon's.
We like pictures. In order to post pictures on Quilting Board, you will probably need to reduce or compress the picture to a
file size that is smaller than 2MB. How to post images can be found at
https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...020-01-17-.pdf
Don't forget to scroll over to the far right to find and click on the "
Upload" button.
I have found that only the big red "Reply" button or "Quote" work to give me the paper clip icon to work for adding pictures.
https://www.quiltingboard.com/attach...p-location.jpg
Some additional info regarding reducing images at post #4 and images for the scroll and upload button can be found at #5 of
quilt block ID?
Or simply - Make sure pictures are smaller than 2MB
Click on red "Reply" button
Click on the paper clip icon
Click browse - choose picture/s. (only 5 allowed per post)
Once they show up as being loaded, Scroll over to the right side and click on "Upload"
After the pictures show up as being attached, you can close that window and go back to the screen to finish posting your post.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.