Originally Posted by
OurWorkbench
Nice find, it looks unused.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.
It does look unused, but it was not unrepaired:
The tension assembly had been disassembled and reassembled incorrectly;
I'm 90% sure the stitch length dial had been disassembled and reassembled incorrectly because as I very carefully took it apart there was a pin floating around under the dial, the pin is supposed to sit in a hole and be spring loaded and function as a detent' for the gradation marks on the back side of the dial, I'm not sure I have it back together 100% correctly, the pin is unidirectional and I may have it in backwards, won't know until I can turn it other than by hand;
the motor had been rewired in a fashion, including soldering small brads in place to function as stops for the brush springs (it was together when I received it;
unless this machine was a one in a million (other than being the world's best) the motor mount bolt hole was tapped out to accept a larger, standard hardware-store-available bolt, and the bracket was "enlarged" to accept this larger bolt.
But I like it anyway!