One followed me home ,,,
04-13-2023, 07:41 PM
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One followed me home ,,,
So there I am, minding my own business and plotting how I'm going to get my "new" #21 cabinet up my narrow, steep stairs, when I get a text with the 1st pic below. I see a pic showing me the top of a dilapidated looking sewing machine cabinet and the question ... "Want another one? It's free".
My brain says "no".
My fingers type "Maybe, is it empty?"
In response, I get the second picture, showing a dusty looking Singer, sporting a potted motor. A 15-91! My brain is now on board and directs my fingers to type "Sure, I need to unload my truck. Give me 40 minutes".
Unloading my truck, something tells me to look again. Did you notice the potted motor but no LIGHT on the back of that Singer? Yep, a 201-2! I broke all the speed limits between me and that machine!
I got it up to my work area and spent an hour or so, wiping and lubricating and you can see it looks pretty nice. The shellac is pretty degraded but it runs smooth and easy. Sometimes they just fall in your lap.
My brain says "no".
My fingers type "Maybe, is it empty?"
In response, I get the second picture, showing a dusty looking Singer, sporting a potted motor. A 15-91! My brain is now on board and directs my fingers to type "Sure, I need to unload my truck. Give me 40 minutes".
Unloading my truck, something tells me to look again. Did you notice the potted motor but no LIGHT on the back of that Singer? Yep, a 201-2! I broke all the speed limits between me and that machine!
I got it up to my work area and spent an hour or so, wiping and lubricating and you can see it looks pretty nice. The shellac is pretty degraded but it runs smooth and easy. Sometimes they just fall in your lap.
04-14-2023, 06:15 PM
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Originally Posted by AlZilla
Thanks, folks. Wax may not be a bad idea. I'm thinking of looking through the article here about restoring shellac. This one is pretty nice, overall.
I used car was on a Singer 15 some years ago. There are areas where the shellac was completely gone and I had to do repeated applications to get any results and it never looked right. The places where the shellac had worn off just don't look right. To me it was a bit of a wasted effort. Now, that said, the parts that still had shellac look just great after a wax treatment. One of these days I'll get ambitious and re-do the machine with a coating of shellac..
04-20-2023, 08:23 AM
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Originally Posted by 1.41
From everything that I understand, re-shellacking the machine may well be pretty much as easy as polishing it with car wax. And it's pretty much guaranteed to look better.
I used car was on a Singer 15 some years ago. There are areas where the shellac was completely gone and I had to do repeated applications to get any results and it never looked right. The places where the shellac had worn off just don't look right. To me it was a bit of a wasted effort. Now, that said, the parts that still had shellac look just great after a wax treatment. One of these days I'll get ambitious and re-do the machine with a coating of shellac..
I used car was on a Singer 15 some years ago. There are areas where the shellac was completely gone and I had to do repeated applications to get any results and it never looked right. The places where the shellac had worn off just don't look right. To me it was a bit of a wasted effort. Now, that said, the parts that still had shellac look just great after a wax treatment. One of these days I'll get ambitious and re-do the machine with a coating of shellac..
