This is my newest baby I named her Judy
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"Goop" or "GoJo" are hand cleaners for mechanics. It's been known to remove decals right along with the muck... I am not brave enough to chance it myself...I always just use sewing machine oil and elbow grease!
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I'm with you Charlee. I wouldn't want to do anything to hurt the already fragile decals. Think I will stick to sewing machine oil & lots of TLC.
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That's a nice Singer 27 with the Sphinx decals. I've got Judy's sister at my place! For cleaning the body I highly recommend an automotive upholstery cleaner called "TuffStuff". I got it at a car parts place. It is wonderful, very gentle, did not discolor the decals at all, and yet removed the huge amount of gunk that was on the one I had. I started out using oil, but I would still be cleaning if I had kept that up! For the wood, it doesn't look like the veneer is in bad shape. Go to your local hardware store and look at the furniture restoring products. I like the Howard products.
You might want to go check out the TreadleOn site: http://www.treadleon.net Great information about old machines and how to repair and restore them.
Pam
You might want to go check out the TreadleOn site: http://www.treadleon.net Great information about old machines and how to repair and restore them.
Pam
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