Originally Posted by Charlee

Hi Everyone! Just wanted to check in...MIL is visiting (a good thing, love her to pieces! :) ) but while she's here, my computer/sewing room is her bedroom, so it's a bit harder to check in as much as I usually do!

Hope everyone is having a GREAT week, see you soon!! :)

Originally Posted by irishrose

Little Orphan Annie's patent date was Dec 17, 1895. If that's a serial number on the slide plate, she was made in 1904. I think it must a serial number because it fits New Home's numbering pattern. I think I'm going to go ahead and clean her up because the treadle is so free and smooth, unlike the Leader. I will probably lose the decals she has left by the time she's clean. Does anyone admit to having painted decorations on an antique machine? Is it any worse that painting a FW?

The Ruby is in a wooden cradle that then fits into the cabinet, then there is a metal cover on the bottom of the machine so that has to come off to clean the bottom gears. I also need to take the irons off and take them outside to clean and probably paint. The drawer cases are funny. They aren't attached on the sides, just suspended from the top of the cabinet. The wood is very dry and what finish is left is very rough, but there is only one ruffled spot of veneer. There is a missing panel across the front. I will call the young lady to see if it broke off in her car, otherwise, I'll have to make one. Is it possible the machine had a canvas sling under the machine? I vacuumed off pieces of rotted canvas last night and there are slim wooden pieces that would have held it in place. No, I won't paint the cabinet. Wish me luck.

I talked to my son last night. I do not have a Redeye, but he saw one in a barbeque shop. He said now he knows why I want one. He also said the one on display was very dusty and he really wanted to dust it for them while he waited for his order.

Originally Posted by vintagemotif

Congrats on your excellent deal! I only clean my sewing machines with sewing oil. You need to be patient cleaning the machine this way since it sometimes take time to loosen up the cruddy oil that is built up on the machine. Don't use Goop unless you don't mind all the shellac to be removed, and possibly decals damaged. Doesn't mean that it could happen to you using the Goop (non pumice), but you don't know until you start into it. That is what happened to me when I cleaned a machine with the bed having a crackled shellac. I started cleaning with the Goop, only to find the "dirt" I was removing was really the shellac and decals. So, I now only clean with sewing oil. And yes, sewing machine oil alone will clean the machine!

Originally Posted by miriam

http://cincinnati.craigslist.org/atq/2594999244.html
this one is in Cincinnati/Northern KY Just enabling again...
Wonder why that has such a big motor on it... I also wonder what it does?

Originally Posted by miriam

Originally Posted by Charlee

I think the motor is a 'normal' sized motor...it's just that the machine itself is tiny....is that a 24?

Originally Posted by chris_quilts

Here is Rosie, the 201. She told me her name as DH and I were fixing her foot pedal. She does have a couple of issue for an OSMG but am hopeful I can fix a couple of other ones.
I am going to look for a parts donor machne tomorrow for the missing screw and also an OSMG at a couple of places in town.