Originally Posted by Rodney

If you didn't show us the repair we would never know.

I've been messing with my daughter's Singer 99k again-the one I bent the needlebar and broke the linkage on. I have an older 99 here that I robbed the needlebar parts from to finish her machine. It turns out that needlebar was very slightly bent too, just enough to cause some binding in the bore. I took it out again, hit it with a hammer gently to try to straighten it some then chucked it in my daughter's wood lathe and sanded the bar a bit with some 400 grit sandpaper, not a lot, just enough to polish it a bit. I put it back in and while not perfect, the fit is much better than before. It seems either I got lucky or the timing just falls into place on these machines. It's stitching pretty well with no adjustments.
There are one or two things left to do but the machine is pretty much finished. I lost the screw for the bobbin winder guide on the machine's bed and my older machine uses a different setup so I couldn't rob that one. I also need to pop a new bobbin winder tire on. I have one, I just need to find it.
The daughter is at camp this week so she hasn't seen the machine yet.
Here's the (nearly) completed machine:
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It's the machine I made the mahogany case for. I also did some work replacing the badly damaged clear coat. That repair shows. It's not perfectly smooth like the original but at least the decals are protected.
Rodney