I bought an hold New Home at a flea market in a cabinet with instruction book, spare needle & spare bulb, box of attachments and book for $25.00. It needs the tension adjusted, but how to you go about taking a machine that old in a cabinet to a repair shop? Do you take it out of the cabiinet and if so, how do they work on it, because the bottom is not sealed like the modern machines. It has to sit in a cabinet in order to be used. They (New Home) later became Janome.
I guess this question sounds dumb, but I have always wondered about this. :D