Finally, back on this particular hobby after months of having no spoons for nonessential grimy activities.

This is my Singer 127, rescued from decades of storage after being the least-used machine in a leather repair shop. It has definitely not been serviced since Pittsburgh started cleaning up its coal smoke problem, and is commensurately filthy with black gunk on top of the expected hardened grease lint and dust weasels.

Finally got the presser bar out with some gentle percussive action with the machine on its side. Need to find or make a simply enormous vintage screwdriver before I can get the rest of the “easy to put back together” stuff out of the nose of the machine; the screw for the last bit is like an inch wide with quite a narrow slot, and it hasn’t yielded to the biggest ill-fitting driver I have. It’s probably also time for proper penetrating oil.

Meanwhile, I found the scrubbies that fit the dremel, and omg the front plate is gonna be so gorgeous.

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