vintagemotif

Nancy, That is a beautiful machine! The Morse 15 clones are cool looking, and I love the color blue! You can always take the motor off, or just take the belt off, and set the machine up to treadle. I would give it a try and if you don't like the set up then go back to using the motor. :)

vintagemotif

Billy,
That is such a sweet machine for a girl! I was never a fan of the color pink. The first time you showed us this finished paint job of this machine, all I thought of was Pepto pink. Now that you have posted again, this color is growing on me. I'm picturing a room with browns and a quilt with the same color pinks with browns.

vintagemotif

[quote=cherrybsixty][quote=vintagemotif][quote=cherrybsixty]OMG! I remember this now, when you posted this info.
Please, please post a picture! Do you have before and after?

miriam

I like to print out the manuals so I can doodle on them while I work. You can also blow them up on the copy machine. Did you know you can also enlarge on the computer by holding down your 'control key' and hitting your '+ key' at the same time. To get it back to smaller hold the 'control key' and hit the '- key' you can hit more than once and it will keep getting bigger or smaller. You can also print only the manual page you need at the time.

BoJangles

Wow, Okiepastor, you really are in this pretty deep -- just like most of the rest of us! Tommie is great to help you get all those machines up and running! I am so glad you are fixing up the ones you have!

Nancy

BoJangles

Wow Charlee, that 15 looks like a new machine and all you did was TR-3? The cabinet in amazing too! It looks like you re-did the cabinet - sanding and all, but you got that look with Howard's restore a finish? No sanding? Amazing!

Wow beautiful!

Nancy

tomilu

I don't know either. This one is crinkle black. Never having worked on a crinkle, what is the best way to clean?
Tommie

BoJangles

I would love to put that Morse in a treadle! That machine weighs a ton so I am not too into trying to carry it around, although, it will be nice to be able to use it if I need a machine for a class that I can free motion quilt with. The problem is, where to put another treadle? My DH has been working on Betty's (Davis Vertical Feed) treadle for a month now. I really wanted that cabinet redone as I use that machine for binding now. Once I get that cabinet back in the house, I will have no room for another treadle - I have 8 treadles in the house now! I have two more treadle cabinets in the garage that need redoing -- my Sphinx's cabinet and my fiddle base VS 2's cabinet! I need to just let those cabinets go and switch heads in and out, but I hate to not 'fix' them! This addiction not only causes us all to get tons of machines, but we have this compulsion to 'have' to fix them all back up!

Nancy

BoJangles

Very nice 127 with Sphinx decals! I am using my 127 right now for my 'main' piecing machine, although, mine is a treadle! That is a very powerful machine, you will love it, but it weighs a ton! Congratulations on your new 'baby!'

Nancy

BoJangles

To all of you that are having trouble with your feather weights. Those FW were made so small that there is no room for error. If you guys don't put the bobbin casing in right, with the little arm in the notch or seat the bobbin correctly they will not sew. In order to get those machines so small - there is just no fudge room -- everything has to fit perfectly. If you get a thread caught in the bobbin casing, it really screws up the machine -- it won't sew. I'd get a really good book like "Featherweight 221 The Perfect Portable" by Nancy Johnson-Srebro. Really study the fit of the bobbin case, the throat plate, and how to insert the bobbin. Those are absolutely wonderful precision machines, but they have no room for errors. On a good note, it is almost impossible to ruin one, so most problems are human error!

Nancy