Introducing my 1870 Florence Treadle
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yep, it says "Florence 3" on it. There is a slight turn of the tip on this needle that I will need to fix, but then all I need to do is free up the stitch selector and she'll be ready to try out.
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Success!!!!
The most unique slide plate I've seen so far. the bed plate edges have two sided bevels like this...
===> <=====
so I needed to make a slide like this.
>======<
I managed to pattern and cut two mirrored plates in 18 ga,
I beveled the under side of the top edge at a 45 deg angle
I beveled the top edge of the bottom one at a 45 deg angle.
I spread the thinnest possible layer of JB weld on one side
Positioned the the two together and clamped overnight and all day.
Unclamped and using a cheap diamond V file cleaned and adjusted the mating edges.
Now to clean up the back and adjust the front curve a tad...
(Done in Brass so there can be NO chance of someone faking it as original in the future)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]486391[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]486392[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]486393[/ATTACH]
The most unique slide plate I've seen so far. the bed plate edges have two sided bevels like this...
===> <=====
so I needed to make a slide like this.
>======<
I managed to pattern and cut two mirrored plates in 18 ga,
I beveled the under side of the top edge at a 45 deg angle
I beveled the top edge of the bottom one at a 45 deg angle.
I spread the thinnest possible layer of JB weld on one side
Positioned the the two together and clamped overnight and all day.
Unclamped and using a cheap diamond V file cleaned and adjusted the mating edges.
Now to clean up the back and adjust the front curve a tad...
(Done in Brass so there can be NO chance of someone faking it as original in the future)
[ATTACH=CONFIG]486391[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]486392[/ATTACH]
[ATTACH=CONFIG]486393[/ATTACH]
Last edited by SteveH; 08-04-2014 at 04:34 PM.
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