Well, THAT visit didn't go so well. The shop owner didn't know his equipment at ALL. And when the stitch regulator didn't work, he had no clue. The wires were worn, but he said he'd already ordered the new ones, just didn't have them on yet. He was swapping them out when I left.
You'd think that if someone wanted to sell a used piece of equipment, he would have made SURE it was in good working order first. It didn't even move smoothly at first. It wasn't on the tracks properly.
Soooo, the answer is not only no, be HECK NO!
Oh well. I'll keep muscling these around for a while longer. On the upside, once it was tracking properly, I loved it. The manual stitch wasn't bad at all. I managed to get a decent looking meander going. So Tin Lizzie is not on the off-list, but THIS lizzie is.