Saturday, January 30, 2016

Not that Dirty

Last week a woman dropped off her Brother XR53 at the Quilt Zoo.  She said it worked fine it just needed a cleaning.

I picked it up, brought it home and finally was able to attend to it today.  It wasn't that dirty.

I took off the needle plate and the face plate (if you can call it that).  I brushed out the lint, took out the hook and cleaned under it and put it all back together.  Total time, including stitch testing, just under an hour.



It is a full rotary hook, maybe an L bobbin or a 15.  I couldn't tell since the one provided is plastic and seems a bit smaller than my metal class 15 bobbins.

The machine has many settings,  I tried SS and ZZ and called it a day.  Now to deliver it back to the Zoo so that the owner can pick it up.


2 comments:

  1. Color me grateful for metal parts, great visibility, substantial feed dogs, and powerful motors. Love the straight stitches I am able to make. You are one of the main reasons I am able to be so happy sewing, so accurate, with the vintage machines.

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    1. Yes. Visibility. I could hardly see the presser foot on this machine when I was testing the stitch.

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