Over the years the Coca-Cola company has managed to advertise just about everywhere imaginable, including this little needlecase. It's less than 3 inches long but has a small thimble which pulls off so you can pull the tiny wooden thread holder out of the tube. The thread holder itself opens up so you can store your needles inside it. Pretty neat. Too bad no one has advertising like this anymore. Even if they did it would be made of cheap plastic though.
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Love it! Where do you find these things generally?
Would you believe all the vintage sewing things I've shown so far are simply family things passed down? We are serious pack rats.
I loved seeing your vintage sewing machines earlier this week and saw you got your 15-91 today. I'm excited for you--you're going to love it! I do 95% of my sewing on my 15-91.
Thanks, Susan. I'm loving your blog which I just stumbled on yesterday! I think I was doing some generic Google search under 15-91. I've already found a free PDF of the manual and am about to go out a get myself a new bobbin winder tire. Otherwise, it seems to be in good shape.
Down the road maybe I'll be up for tackling some re-wiring, if only for aesthetic reasons... Frankly, I'm not much of a restorer; I'm fine with a little grit.
My 15-91 isn't in perfect shape. It was well used by its previous owner. I don't mind the grit either as long as it sews beautifully--and it does.
Don't touch that wiring unless you have to. If you do remove the motor cover and pull out the motor, please, support it. Don't ever let it hang from the two small wires. They're soldered on and if they break loose you'll have nothing but trouble.
If you don't feel like its running smooth enough unscrew the stop motion screw on the handwheel (you'll have to loosen the tiny screw in it), remove the handwheel and take a look at the gear where the grease goes. If it's nasty and gunky get some rags and clean it up the best you can. You'll need to regrease it afterwards. The manual will tell you about that. You have so many sewing machines you probably know all that anyway.
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