Buck Rodgers Rocketeer?
#24
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sonoma County, CA
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The lid being open certainly ruins the lines of the machine. Like driving around with your hood up!
#25
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Join Date: Jul 2014
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I don't think you can ever go wrong buying at a charity. the way I see it the charity makes money and that's a good thing. mine don't seem to have machines but others have lucked out and found some here and there. I'm still playing with the 401 my mom found for me...havent' made my way to the 500/503s she found yet...getting nervous hearing about the hinges breaking..and if they're complicated I'll be too impatient probably
#26
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#27
Same here, and I prefer my rockateers over the others. Doesn't bug me at all that the lid is up as I have my head bent down concentrating on the sewing at hand, I'm not trying to sight see over the top of the machines and anyways I have already seen the entire view...LOL
#28
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Join Date: Feb 2012
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I don't think the objection is about while you're working on it, it's more about when you walk away. Rarely do we begin and end a project in one sitting, so we leave it threaded for the next step. It sits agape, its Jet Age sleekness torn asunder, a spool of yellow thread leering at us. Mind you, of the things in the world to be concerned about, this is lower on my list than the padlocks on the Pont des Arts - but, when I step back from my Rocketeer, I do like to admire it in its undisturbed, aerodynamic mid-century splendor.
#29
I don't think the objection is about while you're working on it, it's more about when you walk away. Rarely do we begin and end a project in one sitting, so we leave it threaded for the next step. It sits agape, its Jet Age sleekness torn asunder, a spool of yellow thread leering at us. Mind you, of the things in the world to be concerned about, this is lower on my list than the padlocks on the Pont des Arts - but, when I step back from my Rocketeer, I do like to admire it in its undisturbed, aerodynamic mid-century splendor.
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