barbb baumgardner

You are the envy of this quilter. I love old things. Maybe because the old machines were built with quality in mind. By all means, get it spruced up and use it. The more you use it, the better it will sew. Enjoy your good fortune.
barbb

littlehud

I think it would be wonderful to fix it up. They are wonderful machines and the sentimental value is priceless.

Pineapple Princess

I would get it fixed. Sentimental reason is a pretty good reason! :)

aardvarq

Yes, yes, yes and yes.

That machine just needs a cleaning and it is not the worse I have seen in the last 5 months.

It should sew wonderfully unless something is really messed up. But you would have remembered that from childhood.

Keep, use, enjoy your grand legacy.

Aardie.

Suzanne57

I rescued and fixed up a Singer 15 (1947) and it didn't have a cabinet with it. I kept looking, found an old Fleetwood cheap in a fairly decent cabinet, put the Singer in it, and have been making my quilt tops on it. I haven't even used my other machine since I got the Singer running.

jlm5419

A good cleaning, a little oil and grease, the missing parts in place and that machine will sew like a champ. Those old machines were built to LAST, and they perform wonderfully.

fixfido

I love my 15. It does absolutely wonderful free-motion work.

Pickles

I say fix that baby, what a wonderful machine , they have a beautiful stitch :D

moonrise

We've started cleaning her up. It looks like she's going to be a beauty! You should see all the dirt that's coming off. Whew! I love seeing shiny silver or black gleaming through through the dirt! :mrgreen: I'm cleaning little parts and shining up the cabinet while DH is working on the machine itself. So far, the cabinet's finish isn't as icky as I thought. It's solid as a rock structurally, but the finish looked pretty bad until I started working on it. Unless I run across a surprise, I don't think it'll really even "need" refinishing. Yay! And so far, we've only found one small bad place in the paint on the sewing machine. DH wants to repaint it (he's an industrial painter and is a total perfectionist about it, so any bad spot bothers him), but I'm not sure how we'd replace the labels.

Instead of ordering the parts, I went another route. I found a deal on an identical machine on eBay ... one that's complete, has been recently rewired and is supposed to be in good working order ... so I snagged it up. It only costed a little more than the parts would have been buying them separately. It's supposed to be here on Wednesday. I figure we can borrow its power cord once DH gets the wiring redone on my Mammaw's machine, and see if hers works and/or what else it needs. And in the meantime, I'll have a working machine that I can sew on and get used to. :mrgreen:

I'm going to need a name for her. Hmmm. I've never named any of my other machines, but I think my Mammaw's will deserve one. :-) Her name was Mildred, but I'm not a big fan of that name (sorry, Mammaw and any other Mildreds that might be out there!). :oops: I'll have to think on it. :-)

moonrise

Can you tell any difference? :mrgreen:

The bad spot in the paint is just to the right of the plate where the feed dogs are. There are some other minor places, but I'm not sure if it justifies repainting the whole thing. I think I'll leave it as is. :)

The photos actually make it look a little more spiffy than it actually is, but even so, it cleaned up much more nicely than I expected.

We found a few other things missing ... one of the screws that holds the motor cover on (no biggie), one of the screws that holds the plate on, and the screw that holds the needle in place.

Speaking of which, does anyone know if it takes a certain kind of needle?

I keep wondering how much it costed when it was brand new. 8-)