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This is why you don’t buy cheap machines
One night at the maker space, I worked on two different sewing machines. One was a mid 70s singer machine. I spent about an hour cleaning and lubricating it, and it worked like new after that.
The machine in the photo add an issue that my expert friend and I could not figure out. This is what it looked like over 90 minutes later, with two of us working intently on it. We never did figure out what was wrong with it, and it probably still looks like this.
Friends don’t let friends buy $200 plastic sewing machines! They are virtually unrepairable, even in the opinion of technicians at a local sewing machine shop I go to occasionally.
“I’m sorry, it will cost more to repair it than the machine is worth.” I actually witnessed that conversation.
u/510Goodhands — 5 days ago