[quote=vintagemotif]The electric cord runs through a very small grommet in the side plate of the cabinet. It's a captive cord. Also, I just noticed that the kneelever/footpedal apparatus is totally different between the 20's 66 and the 40's 15-91. Hum.

No, no! Not meant to offend, more as a joke for us all/at us all. A lot of us either already have a lot of machines, or we're in the "process" of having a lot of machines. Others on this thread have mentioned that this love of these old machines is a 'sickness'... I just had to laugh in agreement. For whatever we call it, I have it to! I apologize if what I typed seemed offensive, it was not meant that way. I'll try to be more careful in the future...

[quote=kwendt]Billy should be able to help direct you with what could be done. I toss all my motors; so, I can't help ya.

Oh my granddad used to use Coke to take the rust off bike handlebars... but then he said that Coke changed the formula of the soda back awhile ago and it no longer works.

I love the look of treadles, don't know how to use one. One day, I'll want a treadle, once I can convince my hubby about putting it in the Living room. lol... but that will take a while. Meantime, I have my electrics upstairs in my sew room, taking up as little space as possible.

I just remembered that Dunster (I think) posted a refinish tute somewhere on here. I'll go a-searching for it. I'm going to hope the varnish prevented the tar from soaking into the porous wood underneath. I'll give it a shot. First I'll try OXY cotton balls on one spot. I don't care if it strips it (since the finish is dead anyways) and maybe I can get enough tar gunk off of it...

There is a beautiful parlor cabinet with a so so Singer in it in the Wichita, KS area. Here is the link so you can drool over the cabinet. No, I'm not going to see or buy it. They are pretty proud of it, lol.
http://wichita.craigslist.org/atq/2184727371.html

Ah! - those cabinets are gorgeous!!

I've never seen a cabinet like this one. Wow! I'd say they like it. That's quite a lot of money!!!

Can anyone tell me about my new to me machine I picked up today? Singer #AA142835.

Thanks so much.

We inherited an old cast iron dutch oven that was so rusty I thought we'd probably have to junk it but decided to try the coke soak. We put the dutch oven and lid in a large granite kettle and covered it with straight coke (think it took 6 2 litre bottles) and let it soak for about 3-4 days and all the rust was gone when we took it out. Dutch oven was a little pitted but not bad and that was prob from the rust not the coke. That's my only experience with coke.