I was determined to finish up the machine yesterday. Somewhere in the midst of taking it apart, cleaning it and reassemply I managed to loose an important nut that went to a movible part. I’m actually going to blame the missing nut on the cat after all I was doing most of the work on his dinner table.
Yesterday I learned that it’s much easier to set the timing on a car than it is to time a sewing machine. I spent close to 2 hours trying to get the timing marks right and the bobbin shaft tightened down. After that I set the machine in my treadle cabinet, oiled it and ran it for about 20 minutes and noticed a terrible rattle coming from the feed dog, it was loose. It still runs noisier than my 127 but that may be the nature of the beast.
