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putting a brother xl-3200 in an old sewing table?

My wife got her mother's sewing machine, a brother xl-3200 which although a few years on it apparently is fairly decent. She's gotten an older sewing table from her grandmother, which had what looks like a

30-40 year old sewing machine mounted in it. The sewing machine mounted to a hing so that it would swing down out of the way, and the table top could flip over to hide the hole. I was able to take that old machine out fairly easy. But the XL-3200 appears to be some kind of table top design, with no mount holes in it for a swing down sewing table. My wife says the table is a very standard design and there should be some way to mount even a newer machine into the table. Anyone got ideas? Are there some kind of mounts that will add holes to the side of the xl-3200 so that the hinges will screw in? Or is this sewing machine/table pair an impossible dream?
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johndselph
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The only way is to modify the cabinet and install a shelf at the correct height for the work surface, but you still will not be able to close it up.

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Ron Anderson

Not sure this is what will work but I've got an 80s-era Kenmore that, according to the book, would either go into a carrying case or a table - and the machine doesn't have hinge pins. The base of the case connects to the bottom of the machine via three screws (the machine is a free-arm). And from what I can tell from the manual, there would have been a similar type of connection with a cabinet. Now, Perhaps your machine can be set in a cabinet in a similar way, obviously it would have to hold the weight of the machine....

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