miriam

My wish would be to start at Bob's shop and see if he would show us anything - trouble is if he ever got really going we could be there all year. :-D He pretty much has high end vintage anything in there - some eye candy for sure. I'm equally fascinated with his parts and parts machines. I'm thinking of having him help me get that 401G or the 411G to treadle. He thinks it needs a balance wheel off an old treadle - the clutch knob piece is not the same as most of them - he seems to think he can modify it some how. It has a balance wheel that can be ground down to make room for a belt to pass. Bob says the heavier wheel would make it turn a bit better. I'm just afraid he would charge me an arm and a leg.

Then there is a quilt shop across town probably a mile or so away. I haven't scouted it out yet. I haven't seen much in the thrift shops lately - but maybe if you come in town someone will have donated all the stuff they over priced on CL and we would luck out and find that shop.

As far as my collection - I have mostly slant-o-matics (not sure what all at this point), a few Elnas (only one works), a couple 15 clones, a junk Necchi Nora, a big old honkin' Consew walking foot I used when I had a tent making business, a Singer 241-12 or is it a 13?? I forget... and some Torch and Throws for parts. I'm in sorry need of a shop set up just to work on the mess I have setting around - the dining room isn't cutting it these days.

There are a lot of bicycle shops in town and a lot of bikers. My brother was one. He would head off to where ever every weekend. When he died he must have had 20 or 30 bikes - all in pieces. It seems it was cheaper to buy a new bike than it was to buy parts. Anyway there is a nice bike trail 'The Monon' goes through Indy. http://www.indygreenways.org/monon/monon.htm I'm thinkin' he also did some mountain bike riding somewhere south of Indy.