When does it become a boat anchor?
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You may want to try soaking the whole head (with the motor removed!) in a bucket (or plastic garbage bag in a bucket) of kerosene. I have read that that is what vsm manufacturers recommended. My understanding is that the Italian and German manufacturers of vintage machines used such tight tolerances that those machines gum up quicker and are more difficult to get unstuck.
John Thomas in NC
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You may want to try soaking the whole head (with the motor removed!) in a bucket (or plastic garbage bag in a bucket) of kerosene. I have read that that is what vsm manufacturers recommended. My understanding is that the Italian and German manufacturers of vintage machines used such tight tolerances that those machines gum up quicker and are more difficult to get unstuck.
John Thomas in NC
John Thomas in NC
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I have yet to find a machine that was too rusty to make work again. My Wheeler & Wilson #10 came to me through two other collectors who had given up on freeing it. It had been left upside down in a container of water. Silly humans.... She is not pretty, but sews fantastic now.
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