Victory is mine!!

Whew, well, I finally got that old Singer 9420 to play nice! John was able to find a schematic of the parts (interestingly enough, this kind of detail was not provided in the owner's manual - thanks, hun!) Anyway, the little spring/hook thingie is back where it should have been, and the needle is picking up the thread from the bobbin case, and the darned thing works like a charm! I'm the stuff, oh yeah! Check out the pix along the way...


Look at this mess! No wonder she couldn't get it to sew... still, for $35.o0, this could be a good machine. You just never know what Salvation Army has! Come to think of it, I paid $75.00 for an old Singer at the local shop, and it was sold with a broken belt... let's see if I can get this thing to work!





















The inside assembly looks good. Some "gunk" but everything looks like it's in order.


















All cleaned up, re-assembled, and it looks good... sounds good, but can it sew?
















Wow!! check out these stitches!! Helen and Pete showed me how to raise and lower the needle shaft, and this machine is sewing like a charm!
















And my reward from mom? Her famous Pineapple Upside-Down Cake - YUMS!!