World's Best Sewing Machine
 

I haven't posted about any "new" machines for a while, not because there haven't been any, but having acquired the World's Best Sewing Machine I thought I owed it to everyone to post a picture.

I know it's the world's best because the badge says so.

This set me back $15 (even though it's the World's Best it was still reasonable), but I really like how it looks.

I was going to turn it into a hand crank (even though it says Mercury Electric) but was thwarted by the small key on the main shaft holding the interior portion of the two piece hand wheel. I could dremel off this key, but thought better of it.

I like the light recessed into the arm, I have not seen this in a 15 clone before.

And the motor still needs a little work, but it does sew stitches turning by hand.

Another Hand crank option would be to cut a slot in your disc hand wheel. But you may want to keep the world' best, intact.

That's a good idea. I would be using a 9 spoke hand wheel from a Red Eye, I wonder though how difficult it would be to cut into that grade of steel.

Nice find, it looks unused.

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

That's pretty!

Very pretty machine! And looks to be in perfect shape.

great find for the great price of $15!

I can tell you it takes a bit to drill and cut through the side.

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It does look unused, but it was not unrepaired:
The tension assembly had been disassembled and reassembled incorrectly;
I'm 90% sure the stitch length dial had been disassembled and reassembled incorrectly because as I very carefully took it apart there was a pin floating around under the dial, the pin is supposed to sit in a hole and be spring loaded and function as a detent' for the gradation marks on the back side of the dial, I'm not sure I have it back together 100% correctly, the pin is unidirectional and I may have it in backwards, won't know until I can turn it other than by hand;
the motor had been rewired in a fashion, including soldering small brads in place to function as stops for the brush springs (it was together when I received it;
unless this machine was a one in a million (other than being the world's best) the motor mount bolt hole was tapped out to accept a larger, standard hardware-store-available bolt, and the bracket was "enlarged" to accept this larger bolt.

But I like it anyway!