Not satisfied. Recommendations for better sewing machines?

[CamoDeafie]

300 series is heavy enough for you . and is a bottom feed , but might be a chainstitch ? and not a lockstitch . I not 100% positive . you need to call and ask them if one or the other.
reverse is a nice option but you can live without if need be .
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Singer database doesn't list a 300-2 at all. Only 300Wsomething and 301s. But their serial number database says for prefix AE range 765591 to 770590, are 96 Class, 5,000 alloted, Dec 8th 1937. Whichever 96, I don't know. Could have been a special version with a custom model number plate

 

[JustShoot]

Singer database doesn't list a 300-2 at all. Only 300Wsomething and 301s. But their serial number database says for prefix AE range 765591 to 770590, are 96 Class, 5,000 alloted, Dec 8th 1937. Whichever 96, I don't know. Could have been a special version with a custom model number plate

Machine in Pic's looks ready to go . You need to just go over to seller, string it up with some #69, and sit down behind the machine and sew on it . The seller should have not problems with that . Then you will know if it a Lockstitch, what needle size it takes, and what feed system it uses .
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[Cavedweller]