New vintage machine in a nice little table
11-29-2013, 04:43 PM
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New vintage machine in a nice little table
Hubby and I went out to lunch and checked out a few thrift stores and I saw this nice little sewing table and I offered him 30.00 for the table and the machine in it. As I was paying for it another lady came in and was checking it out, I mentioned to the owner we would back the truck up to load up the machine and she turned to me and said did you buy this one and pointed to a different machine. I said no we bought the one you are looking at. She reluctantly took her hand off my sewing machine.
Five minutes later and she would have had the machine in her truck..LOL
I also found a singer box with a walking foot in it. My first walking foot find. Not a bad day at all. I am going to clean the machine up and relist it quickly because I do not like what I have read about how it was made. I do however like the table very much.
Five minutes later and she would have had the machine in her truck..LOL
I also found a singer box with a walking foot in it. My first walking foot find. Not a bad day at all. I am going to clean the machine up and relist it quickly because I do not like what I have read about how it was made. I do however like the table very much.
11-29-2013, 06:03 PM
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Originally Posted by mlmack
Is there something unsavory about these post-WW2, made in Japan sewing machines?
11-29-2013, 06:34 PM
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It was something I just read and went into my overall test score for it.
Here is what I read: "Necchi is well-known in the customer and wholesale markets as a result of promotion and advertising. The Sewmor machine has operating parts of low-carbon steel; it is not of precision workmanship. It is claimed that the low-carbon steel used in the construction of these operating parts in the Sewmor is too soft to stand up under normal operation, that the parts quickly wear out giving rise to the need for many and frequent repairs."
I don't know if it is true or not but I do know that I love love my two Necchi's I purchased recently and they do sew dreamy, more so than any other machine I own. I use my own grading system worksheet when I finish cleaning up a machine and sew with it for the first time. So many things are factored into the final score. This Sewmor 404 I will not keep. So basically the article I read was just one factor added into the overall keep or sell score.
Here is what I read: "Necchi is well-known in the customer and wholesale markets as a result of promotion and advertising. The Sewmor machine has operating parts of low-carbon steel; it is not of precision workmanship. It is claimed that the low-carbon steel used in the construction of these operating parts in the Sewmor is too soft to stand up under normal operation, that the parts quickly wear out giving rise to the need for many and frequent repairs."
I don't know if it is true or not but I do know that I love love my two Necchi's I purchased recently and they do sew dreamy, more so than any other machine I own. I use my own grading system worksheet when I finish cleaning up a machine and sew with it for the first time. So many things are factored into the final score. This Sewmor 404 I will not keep. So basically the article I read was just one factor added into the overall keep or sell score.
11-29-2013, 06:42 PM
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Why are you yelling for Joe? I used my system for keeping or selling a machine and it was decided to sell it but NOT just solely because of what I read. Also I have learned that just because a machine runs well doesn't mean I keep it because most of the machines I clean up run really well so I came up with my own way to score them. So far the Necch'is and some of the Singers are the best. None of the Japanese scored as high even though they run really well and sew really well. I can't explain it any better than that except for me its like driving my Porsche compared to my Ford F350. Somedays I need the Ford but mostly I LOVE driving the Porsche.
11-29-2013, 06:43 PM
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Originally Posted by Sunflowerzz
It was something I just read and went into my overall test score for it.
Here is what I read: "Necchi is well-known in the customer and wholesale markets as a result of promotion and advertising. The Sewmor machine has operating parts of low-carbon steel; it is not of precision workmanship. It is claimed that the low-carbon steel used in the construction of these operating parts in the Sewmor is too soft to stand up under normal operation, that the parts quickly wear out giving rise to the need for many and frequent repairs."
I don't know if it is true or not but I do know that I love love my two Necchi's I purchased recently and they do sew dreamy, more so than any other machine I own. I use my own grading system worksheet when I finish cleaning up a machine and sew with it for the first time. So many things are factored into the final score. This Sewmor 404 I will not keep. So basically the article I read was just one factor added into the overall keep or sell score.
Here is what I read: "Necchi is well-known in the customer and wholesale markets as a result of promotion and advertising. The Sewmor machine has operating parts of low-carbon steel; it is not of precision workmanship. It is claimed that the low-carbon steel used in the construction of these operating parts in the Sewmor is too soft to stand up under normal operation, that the parts quickly wear out giving rise to the need for many and frequent repairs."
I don't know if it is true or not but I do know that I love love my two Necchi's I purchased recently and they do sew dreamy, more so than any other machine I own. I use my own grading system worksheet when I finish cleaning up a machine and sew with it for the first time. So many things are factored into the final score. This Sewmor 404 I will not keep. So basically the article I read was just one factor added into the overall keep or sell score.
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