Singer 72w19 Hemstitcher rescue
 

When you see an OLD machine in decent shape and the price is VERY low, you have to move quickly.

In this case the seller had two replies in the first 30 minutes, me and a person who wanted to make "art" with it... The seller said that because i included the link to my collection online, she decided to sell it to me even though I was not first in line.

So, on Friday with Cathy's (Mizkaki) assistance we drove to the south bay and picked up this amazing machine.

This is my new $75 Singer Hemstitcher from the first year of it's production (1911 as best as I can tell)

Everything works but stiffly. I have cleaned the top half (3 hour obsession Friday night) and hopefully will get the underside cleaned up within the next day or so.

Even more so, I am hoping Cathy still wants it. It's cool, but outside of my collections "focus"

The Head as arrived:
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after cleaning
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in the table
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Totally cool! So glad it passed through your capable hands!

That is so, so neat! I'd have grabbed that with both hands too! For some reason, I have a fascination with hemstitchers.

Me too, and I have never actually seen one work!!! hehe it is just cool looking. This one has one of the two needle broken, so I will be replacing that tonight as well.

Wow! I'm glad the seller had enough respect for the machine to sell it to you instead of the other person. It would have been a real shame for it to end up as a tractor in someone's yard.
Rodney

Ditto! Glad it has a new life.

Ditto from me also. What a shame it would have been to go to the other interested person. You did a nice job as usual both cleaning it up and just plain saving it from some "artist".