World's Best Sewing Machine
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World's Best Sewing Machine
I haven't posted about any "new" machines for a while, not because there haven't been any, but having acquired the World's Best Sewing Machine I thought I owed it to everyone to post a picture.
I know it's the world's best because the badge says so.
This set me back $15 (even though it's the World's Best it was still reasonable), but I really like how it looks.
I was going to turn it into a hand crank (even though it says Mercury Electric) but was thwarted by the small key on the main shaft holding the interior portion of the two piece hand wheel. I could dremel off this key, but thought better of it.
I like the light recessed into the arm, I have not seen this in a 15 clone before.
I know it's the world's best because the badge says so.
This set me back $15 (even though it's the World's Best it was still reasonable), but I really like how it looks.
I was going to turn it into a hand crank (even though it says Mercury Electric) but was thwarted by the small key on the main shaft holding the interior portion of the two piece hand wheel. I could dremel off this key, but thought better of it.
I like the light recessed into the arm, I have not seen this in a 15 clone before.
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I can tell you it takes a bit to drill and cut through the side.
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The tension assembly had been disassembled and reassembled incorrectly;
I'm 90% sure the stitch length dial had been disassembled and reassembled incorrectly because as I very carefully took it apart there was a pin floating around under the dial, the pin is supposed to sit in a hole and be spring loaded and function as a detent' for the gradation marks on the back side of the dial, I'm not sure I have it back together 100% correctly, the pin is unidirectional and I may have it in backwards, won't know until I can turn it other than by hand;
the motor had been rewired in a fashion, including soldering small brads in place to function as stops for the brush springs (it was together when I received it;
unless this machine was a one in a million (other than being the world's best) the motor mount bolt hole was tapped out to accept a larger, standard hardware-store-available bolt, and the bracket was "enlarged" to accept this larger bolt.
But I like it anyway!