it's been over a week since I got it, so here is what she looks like now.
NOTE: check out the first two pictures of the previous post and you can see the "clever" homemade upper "threadguide " made of twisted wire.
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Before
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After
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Here you can see the results of my being a bit overzealous and removing some of the rear details... Lesson learned.
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here is a staged shot showing how i cleaned out the slide track.
(this resulted in it being TOO loose, until Cathy (Mizkaki) showed me how to adjust the slide for tension with a slight "arc")
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VERY simple mechanism. Howe's and W&W's were so expensive, these Whites were really going for the "everyman" (woman) model..
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One of my favorite features, check out the double ended takeup...
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