Glenn

I apprenticed antique furniture restoration and repair from a German master while station in Germany. then had a restoration business for many years after retiring from the Army. I am now retired and spend my time on antique clock and vintage sewing machines. I just applied what I learned to restore the cabinets and the machine head finishes. I am still learning the mechanics of these old sewing machine but find they are easy to clean up and repair. The more I play with them the more I learn. This board has taught me alot.
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grant15clone

Not too many cold beers otherwise it might come out like Joan Crawford's eyebrows. I have a heart-breaker of a machine here Glenn. I can bring back the paint finish but if I do, the decals are gone. They seem to be suspended in the varnish top coat. (varnish-decal-varnish) And the topcoat varnish is alligator-ed and so severely yellowed, that it would be better if I took it down to good paint with no decals and either airbrushed them on or made decals and re-varnished them back into the machine. I can't decide. Your "paint by numbers" would work here but the decals will be long gone.
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SteveH

Ok, so Sandy (Thanks for coming up with a good name for me...) arrived and so did my new 1950/60's Craftsman 109 Lathe. Hopefully I will be able to recover MORE machines now that I can make bolts and screws...

I deserved to get stuck with this one... I have been complaining that I wanted a W&W 8 to be able to do a complete repaint on and the other two I got had cool enough paint remaining to be worth leaving undisturbed. Now I have one that has no redeeming surface material left..
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Cool old Lathe, well packed.
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chris_quilts

Grant, On one machine, I used my mechanics gear pulling dohickey (sorry for the technical term there) and on the other I inadvertently used a rubber mallet. The rubber mallet was a much slower process but it was mt sweat equity in the machine and not $5 out of my pocket for my mechanic to do it. Along with the mallet, I used TriFlow around the base where the shaft is and hoped/prayed that some of it penetrated into the tight spot where it needed to go.
Chris

miriam

DH used a puller on a Singer 99 - that one had a bent shaft - the thingy had 3 arm like things and you crank on it. sigh. I have used T-F and heat on others or T-F and WAIT T-F and more WAIT.... and T-F and turn the whole machine a different direction and WAIT... Probably dried up oil in there.

grant15clone

I was going to find out if I could get a hold of a gear puller today. Better known as a "Thingie" here.
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miriam

Thingie is a good all purpose tool - I love thingies - I need thingies.... lots of thingies

chris_quilts

Dohickey is also a good generic term to use when referring to thingies or stuff.

barny

Oh, do I love to read these works. I Love to take things apart, but not very good at putting them back together and my son who helps is sick, so I don't get to do it. But keep on talking you guys, it's really interesting to read. We are of the generation that takes old stuff and fixes it to use again. Thanks to you all.

Caroline S

How about thinga-ma-bobbies or whatch-ya-call-its?