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smashed to smithereens no doubt!?

Thanks Miriam, right now I am all set except for original 1970's ish? bobbins. If you have some of those talk to me..LOL

nah - I have a good box full of parts - I bought out an OSMG recently - He was prepared for planned obsolescent machines. The crush and sow was from before I could do much with those - that one sat under a leak on the porch and rusted the insides pretty good. The older machines can be made to work with rusted insides but all that stamped metal was not going to revive. It served it's purpose.

They seem to march right up to my door pre-oiled. Running them dry is good if they are already dry. If they are already oiled I clean them off and try to avoid oil. I don't see why they would need any. If I oil them it is with Tri-flow since it isn't going to gum up in the future.

Today's machine was an Elna Zig Zag. I think it's the predecessor to an SU. I don't think the thing has -ever- been cleaned.

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I'm doing it as a favor, she wants to give it to her granddaughter for christmas. I'm starting to wonder if she likes her granddaughter. I'm now 4 hours into it. The ZZ finally does. The needle position selector is no longer a 2 hander to move, but its not smooth, and I have a significant tension issue still because currently this machine is a great ruffler, besides the odd skipped stitch. I do believe it will be a tomorrow's machine too, and possibly Wednesday's machine. *sigh* I sure hope I can get it off my bench before Christmas.

Tammi, I'm surprised it doesn't have cracked gears under that bobbin.

It's sat in storage for 20 years, maybe that's how she got lucky? I better check closer tomorrow though. Damn. It's an open arm, I'm not looking forward to this check. I saw the one set (all metal and thought I'd seen what I needed to)

I've been doing glamor with the Singer 27:
Before:
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and so far I need to do a bit more - this is well worth the time:
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and so far:
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I also acquired two more machines then spent time just looking through drawers, trying to get the redeye out of its entrapment table and inspecting the old Singer motor.
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