I added 3 pictures, including one of the number on the plate rail. When I bought the machine from a classified ad last winter, the seller said it had been in their family since it was new. ?The missing lower tension screw now makes sense if someone "upgraded" to the new style bobbin parts. ?I saw the price list with the NS and OS cases ($3.00 vs 60?) in one of the albums. ?They must have wanted to keep using this machine and hedged against the old bobbins being discontinued. ?And they liked it enough to carefully repair the cabinet when the entire drop leaf end broke off. The screws are countersunk, and absolutely straight. ?It's so good it's hard to spot unless you know it's there. I added a photo of that, too.?
By the way, ?where is the link to the correct original parts? ? My hope is to find everything the machine could have had from new to when everything for it was discontinued. ?I have fewer machines (relatively, that is - DH thinks I have way too many!) in my collection, but thanks to my OCD, I am a completist. ?I have a Household 3x that is only a few bits away from complete. My Free No. 5 has the furthest to go, as I only have the head and a partial box of attachments.
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