My new toy

[BrendaP]

It's a Singer 201K-3 and according to the ISMACS website she was born in September 1940.


I got her home and oiled her well, then we went out for a couple of hours and now I've spent all afternoon cleaning her  - I think she has lived with a smoker and I probably haven't got all the grime off yet.

She's well used, the decals are worn but not scraped, but stitches perfectly without adjusting anything!  Came with a bentwood case and key, a dozen bobbins, a zipper foot, and an instruction booklet for a Singer 66!  She has the lovely scroll face plate, I was expecting it to be the stripy version.

Maybe not a bargain but £120 seems to have been a reasonable price judging from the few adverts I could find and what's more she was local.

The quality of the stitching has made me realise just how poor the Husqvarna straight stitch is

[Lilian]

ooh it's just like mine  only mine is a potted motor 201k-2 also born in September 1940.  I love her to bits and have not stopped using her since I bought her a couple of months ago.  Beautiful straight stitch, which is why I decided this was the one.

You will have many happy hours sewing! 

Congratulations 

[Sewsuzie]

Oooh, that's looking better already. Glad it turned out to be ok and I love that style of end plate. Enjoy your new toy 

Suzie 

[Lantana]

How exciting! A new familly member! Will you be giving her/him a name?

L

[BrendaP]

It had belonged to the seller's mother who died a few months ago and he's doing the house clearing stuff.  I didn't think of it at the time, but I have emailed him again to ask what her name was so that the machine can have the same name, but until then, or if I don't get a reply,  she's Lillian, aka Fagash Lil.

[Ploshkin]

Beautiful machine Brenda - it's probably a good thing I have a very small house.
How do you get rid of smells from a machine.  I had a 1970s machine given to me that must have lived for years in a room where perfume was liberally sprayed.  There is the most awful smell of stale perfume about it.  It has got less with a few good airings but definitely not gone.

[b15erk]

Brenda, enjoy your machine.  I have two of this, an older and a younger one.  Lovely machine, definitely a workhorse.

Plosh, have you tried leaving the machine without its lid on?  I've bought some real stinkers, and lots of gentle cleaning, and exposure to fresh air, seems to work for me.

I had one from what I thought had been a smoking house, then OH reminded me, that years ago, people tended to have coal fires, and they were notoriously dirty.

Jessie

[SewRose]

Oh I love my 201k. They are great, enjoy your new toy.

[BrendaP]

She's been uncovered since I got her and the smell is diminishing.

I've just received an email from the chap I bought her from.  His mother was Caroline and so 201K is now Caroline as well.

[Lantana]

I named my 201k hand crank after her original and only owner the mother of the e-bay seller Margaret. Her she is in my sewing room.    I've not used her for a bit .... this thread is prodding me to do so!

L