Originally Posted by juliasb (Post 8376789)

It sounds like you have a gem of a machine. Short shank and screw on feet. I had a Kenmore like this one time. It was a work horse. I grabbed it out of the trash one day and used it exclusively for years until the crank shaft just shattered. I started to learn to quilt on that machine. You should get many years of good use out of this machine.