Yes, "Polishing My Sewing Machine" Probably IS a Euphemism...

[sakon76]

So the sewing machine has a round silver plate on its back. It looked a little like this:



Fairly horrifying, no? Once I'd gotten it off the machine, I soaked it in Evapo-Rust, which made it look like this:



Which, to be honest, looks kind of like the opposite of progress. Yes, the red rust is gone, but the black is even more visible!

Still, forging bravely onward, I pulled out the Maas Metal Polish (French lavendar scented! ooh. ahh.) and had at it over a couple of evenings, which ended me up with this:



Much improved, no? I intend to spent a few more evenings rubbing at it with the polish and some cut-up t-shirts to see if I can get the rest of that black gone.

The 15's faceplate, in comparison, was never quite so bad:



This was when I was disassembling the tension mechanism prior to the Evapo-Rust soak. A little light rust on the right side and that was about it. The tension discs, as you can plainly see, were in much worse shape than the plate itself. The post-soak post-polishing pic looks a little like this:



Much better, no?