My new toy! (A 401A)
08-08-2011, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by virtualbernie
That's great and a great price! Did you get the table with it? If you did, that's an even better price! Yea!
08-08-2011, 12:53 PM
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My mom had that one. I learned to sew on it. :)
The little tire-thingie on her bobbin winder had disintegrated, too. She wrapped a rubber band around the spoke and it worked fine (had to press it up against the flywheel to wind the bobbin, but whatever). Oh, and I don't think you need the gripper knob on the stitch-length lever. If I remember correctly it was just a plastic cover. Yours probably got brittle with age and fell off at some point. It's just aesthetic.
Someday I'll find my own 401...
The little tire-thingie on her bobbin winder had disintegrated, too. She wrapped a rubber band around the spoke and it worked fine (had to press it up against the flywheel to wind the bobbin, but whatever). Oh, and I don't think you need the gripper knob on the stitch-length lever. If I remember correctly it was just a plastic cover. Yours probably got brittle with age and fell off at some point. It's just aesthetic.
Someday I'll find my own 401...
08-08-2011, 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by SparkMonkey
My mom had that one. I learned to sew on it. :)
The little tire-thingie on her bobbin winder had disintegrated, too. She wrapped a rubber band around the spoke and it worked fine (had to press it up against the flywheel to wind the bobbin, but whatever). Oh, and I don't think you need the gripper knob on the stitch-length lever. If I remember correctly it was just a plastic cover. Yours probably got brittle with age and fell off at some point. It's just aesthetic.
Someday I'll find my own 401...
The little tire-thingie on her bobbin winder had disintegrated, too. She wrapped a rubber band around the spoke and it worked fine (had to press it up against the flywheel to wind the bobbin, but whatever). Oh, and I don't think you need the gripper knob on the stitch-length lever. If I remember correctly it was just a plastic cover. Yours probably got brittle with age and fell off at some point. It's just aesthetic.
Someday I'll find my own 401...
Keep looking you'll find one. I looked for about 6-9 months!
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