Older Viking Sewing Machine
#21
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Edgefield,SC
Posts: 119
Take it! Vikings are great machines. I take in old machines, clean them up, use them to teach kids to sew.So they won't use my Viking 500. I'm going to get a machine in a cabinet today,don't know the brand, but it's free.I collect old sewing machines, my son collects guns. I raise goats, he raises exotic chickens!
#22
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Tippy-top of a ridge in WV
Posts: 6,355
What have you got to lose for ??free? I still have my old 64 Elna which would be the same era and I sewed on that machine for over 30 yrs. It has never seen a day in a shop. I always cleaned and oiled her myself and to this day, she runs like a charm. She uses cams also. My neighbor who had 12 children had a Viking free-arm and it was so great, it inspired me to buy the Elna.
#23
Sorry to hear about the Viking company being sold. That explains why some of the LQSs have stopped selling them. In our area they have moved into the JoAnn stores. I have two and love them. If I'm lucky enough to get another machine someday I guess it won't be a new Viking.
#25
Take it and run!!!! I have a Viking that I bought brand new in the late 70's and it has paid for itself maybe a dozen times or more. All metal, and a workhorse for almost anything you want to do. I have been looking for an inexpensive backup Viking but prices are all up there when all the attachments and cover are with it. I plan to do the yardsales this year. Will have to look up the yahoo vintage site. I didn't know mine was considered a vintage machine!! It's still my everyday machine!!
#26
Super Member
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Barnesville GA
Posts: 3,181
Viking is a good machine as are most of the older ones.
I bought a Viking back in the late 70's brand new .I used it for everything clothes to upholstery fabric. It uses cams and has a bunch attachments. Its not pretty anymore paint missing but works. I have been trying to sell it for a year now no takers. I am about to start selling everything separately. Which I really hate to do.
And yes there is a group on yahoo.It is the one that helped me get it up and running again when the button hole knob froze up.
I bought a Viking back in the late 70's brand new .I used it for everything clothes to upholstery fabric. It uses cams and has a bunch attachments. Its not pretty anymore paint missing but works. I have been trying to sell it for a year now no takers. I am about to start selling everything separately. Which I really hate to do.
And yes there is a group on yahoo.It is the one that helped me get it up and running again when the button hole knob froze up.
#27
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Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Mableton, GA
Posts: 11,321
I would get it. Also, agree that vintage machines are addictive. I had my old green singer from 1965, an old elnita, a singer treadle, a singer electric vintage in a cabinet and a featherweight. Most of my sewing is on my dinky mechanical Brother, however. But I get such pleasure from looking at my vintage machines and using them too.
#30
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Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Massachusetts, USA
Posts: 1,775
Originally Posted by marmalade
I have a chance to get an older Viking machine (metal, in cabinet) for free. Apparently it is in great working condition.
Should I take it? Assuming it is in working order, of course...or am I asking for trouble???
Should I take it? Assuming it is in working order, of course...or am I asking for trouble???
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