I just bought a Featherweight 221 last month... I'm still cleaning and oiling it so I haven't actually sewn with it yet... keeping my fingers crossed. They command quite a price on Ebay![/QUOTE]
The nice thing is you can open it up and SEE inside to clean and oil and adjust. The newer machines are sealed and take a special tool to open (that I dont own). In the older handbooks it actually TELLS you how to trouble shoot and sometimes fix your machine.
I collect older machines and people tend to drop their unwanted older machines off at my house,think of it as a sewing machine rescue.
I have a great machine tech that specializes in vintage machines. Not sure what I will do if he ever retires. |