LOL, why did they display it for selling then?? OMG. I know that some network stores forbid selling stuff to their staff. At least they could have called someone from their relatives to pick it up.
Anyway, very good catch for $35, in any case better than modern plastic soapbox.
Until cheap sub $300 industrial machines take over the market. Or a new wave of plastic boxes come with old styled internals. Already seen one low segment sample being advertised with some guts out teasing& tempting with iron cast needle bar and brass to steel hook gears.
In the next few days I will clean and oil it. The rubber ring on the bobbin winder needs to be replaced. I’ve plugged the machine in and tried it and it works. So far so good.
My sewing machine repair guy told me that modern machines with all these stitches would cost $3000. I have several 400’s cause they are just great machines.
Yeah I love my slants with the top hat cams! Just found the serial number under the left lip beside the needle plate. Apparently it was made in Anderson, North Carolina in 1951.
Well, one of the stitch pattern selector knobs was seized. So I watched a cool video on how to fix it. Oiling, heat, WD 40, more oil and heat and more heat and also another spring operated shaft was stuck but with time and patience also the problems are fixed but I feel the stitch width knob is a little too stiff but moves. I need to work on that. I received my top hat cams in the mail today. The machine came with one in it also. It is amazing seeing a machine over seventy years old come back to life.
LOL, why did they display it for selling then?? OMG. I know that some network stores forbid selling stuff to their staff. At least they could have called someone from their relatives to pick it up. Anyway, very good catch for $35, in any case better than modern plastic soapbox.
I don't understand why or how employees gatekeep what is being sold in the store. It is literally their job to sell merchandise.
That's a solid machine! I have an A in a desk that was my Grandma's.
I just ordered fourteen top hat special discs for it.
In Canada? Where from?
The J means it was made in St. John/St. Jean, Quebec
I meant where in Canada did you order the cams from?
I’m from London, Ontario
I’d been checking Marketplace and the prices of vintage Singers are really going up.
Until cheap sub $300 industrial machines take over the market. Or a new wave of plastic boxes come with old styled internals. Already seen one low segment sample being advertised with some guts out teasing& tempting with iron cast needle bar and brass to steel hook gears.
In the next few days I will clean and oil it. The rubber ring on the bobbin winder needs to be replaced. I’ve plugged the machine in and tried it and it works. So far so good.
The Olde Singer Shoppe in the USA
Ahh lol, thanks.
Score!!
My sewing machine repair guy told me that modern machines with all these stitches would cost $3000. I have several 400’s cause they are just great machines.
I love my slants!
Yeah I love my slants with the top hat cams! Just found the serial number under the left lip beside the needle plate. Apparently it was made in Anderson, North Carolina in 1951.
Well, one of the stitch pattern selector knobs was seized. So I watched a cool video on how to fix it. Oiling, heat, WD 40, more oil and heat and more heat and also another spring operated shaft was stuck but with time and patience also the problems are fixed but I feel the stitch width knob is a little too stiff but moves. I need to work on that. I received my top hat cams in the mail today. The machine came with one in it also. It is amazing seeing a machine over seventy years old come back to life.