Mickey2

It looks like it's still there. Did you contact them through the web site? There are some very nice ones in your area at the moment, a Necci BU too.

bkay

It has to be made by Gritzner. It's the same as White 651 and Kenmore 117.841.
bk

megs0863

That's about as frustrating as experiencing twice over the years of seeing two near mint condition featherweights listed for $50 on Craigslist. By the time I saw the ads and called, GONE!.

leonf

CatD I was gong to fuss at you for trying to snag machines from my state. Then I realized I've snagged machines from OK, MO and NE Craigslist lately. South Dakota was devoid of anything interesting enough for what I wanted to pay.
But I think I'll be statebound for a while now, I snagged a two spool from Inola OK. I don't know why CL doesn't search "Free" when you search "all".

Cari-in-Oly

That's what I paid for my FW. It was just meant to be. I got on CL and it had just been posted so I was the first to respond. Yesterday I was wasting time so I checked out CL and found a FW cabinet for $25. It was a 4 hr round trip but so worth it.

Cari

CatD

LOL! No laments - I'm now 90% certain a fellow QB-er got it. YAY!!

CatD

Awesome, Leonf that you got that two spool in Inola! I saw that one, not really my era so didn't jump. But it looked like a good one! There's a green Singer 185k right now listed for pickup only in Wichita on the Goodwill Auction site. Have considered making the drive for that one, but it's really too much of a trip for me right now.

leonf

Two Spool is now oiled, cleaning is started. I learned how to thread the lower spool this weekend. I found a green 185 at a garage sale. Haven't messed with it yet. It is about the newest of my desirable range.

CatD

Pretty! ! :-)

Qatie

To be fair, I wasn't a QB-er until I got the machine and was trying to figure out what I'd just picked up. Was it the curbside ad with the school desks and Christmas tree? I sent my husband to snag it at noon on Sunday. It was seriously about a mile from my house.

And honestly, I don't know what it's worth is overall. I just know that the old metal ones have always run nicer than my 2002 Singer - which I finally got a professional to agree with me has a problem with the tension and with thread nesting (after five years of trouble) - and I can't afford to shell out a $70 service fee to return it to mediocre running condition. I was super jazzed to find a free one and even more excited to find that it has feed dog controls (my old machine did not). But I do intend to love it and sew with it and give it a good home.

(What I'm less excited about is that I just got a whole set of presser feet for the low-shank Singer, and now I need new, high-shank feet.)