Part of the reason that my '70 340 Duster may be disappearing!!

JDMopar said
Sewing machines have come a LONG way, since back in our Grannie's Day. My wife has a Brother 10 needle embroidery machine and watching that thing work is just amazing. She gets the hoop centered up on it, then hits go and it does the entire pattern all by itself. It has 10 different colors of threads and will change needles to the one that corresponds to that color and keep on trucking. I will hear her upstairs setting it up, and when I hear beep, beep, beep of her programming it, I know it's getting ready to go. When she hits the GO button on that thing, it sounds like a freight train running upstairs....lol.

They have and they haven't. I still have Mama's 1958 Singer 185J in mint green. It is in almost like new condition. If you flip the machine up to view the under side, the linkage that drives the machine is all IRON and very heavy duty. There is NO plastic anywhere in the drive mechanism. I just recently brought it out of moth balls and cleaned and serviced it so Kitty would have something nice to sew on since her BRAND NEW Singer "heavy duty" machine took a crap. This thing sews like......a brand new one. Because it basically is. Look at the underneath drive linkage. LOL