Originally Posted by
Windblown
ArchaicArcane, I was on there this week too for my 2 301's. I got one from GWI and know I need to clean the tension control's on them both but have been afraid to try until now. Thank You so much for doing this.
Windblown - when you do service your tension make sure that you pay attention to the note on the video description. I forgot to mention in the video that the shorter tensioners (FW and 301 for instance) are set a little differently at the very end. Where I set the bigger tensioners so the post is flush at about 2 to 3, the featherweights tend to be flush closer to full tight - typically these days I've been setting them around 8 - 9.
Originally Posted by
tropit
I was overlooking one, very small detail that she explained. The spring has a small hook at the end of the coil that needs to catch onto the gear when reassembling. It's so easy to miss.
AA does some very good videos, BTW. This one showed every detail. I just want to know how she keeps such beautiful nails while working on sewing machines all day...LOL.
~ Cindy
Cindy! All it seems to take is one little thing with these tensioners. They're very well designed but the strenuously object to the smallest mistake in assembly. Ha! I think the only reason my nails were intact is because I had been doing more quilting on Lucey lately than I've been working on machines. Normally they're full of grease and many are broken.
Originally Posted by
miriam
Tammi, paint a little face on your left hand and we could have extra entertainment... just making fun of you... but don't worry I did love your video - keep them coming.
Lol! I remember watching the video to see if there were any really bad flubs and thinking "It's a darn thing I moved my coffee to the right of the machine where I couldn't hit it!"
Originally Posted by
tropit
Many thanks to you AA. You do some wonderful videos! More on the 403A would be awesome! I dearly love my Slant-O-Matic 403A and now she's up and running again...spinnin' like a a top! I'm so happy!
~ Cindy
What else do we need up there for videos? I've got the camstack stuff - unsticking and fixing the finger problem, tension top and bottom...
The basic premise of timing is the same on them as the 201 video... I'm trying to think of what else goes wrong with them.
Originally Posted by
miriam
Somebody - me - Egora cleaned it up then used 3 in 1 oil on it and it set up like concrete. It took me about a year to get the thing to work. <snip> I have come to terms with the Touch and Sew after all these years. Sort of like Green Eggs and Ham - I do like the T & Ss - just not as much as my 403.
I caught someone with a can of 3in1 oil in their featherweight case this week. Because I wouldn't be there when the machine was picked up (it was a machine at the shop I subcontract to), I left a sticky that it was a no no.
My first machine was a mashup of the worst of the T&S features mixed with some interesting other buggy features. I don't know that I'll ever really come to terms with the T&S machines. Like a bad marriage we're better of not even as friends but as people who change countries to get away from each other.
Originally Posted by
HelenAnn
Those videos are great. Thank you so much for taking the time to make them. Side note- the home depot and I am sure others crry what look like giant plastic ties or twist-ums. The large green ones can be fashioned to make a nice tripod for our phones
You are welcome HelenAnn! The biggest problem I have with the filming is that the machines are unfriendly to a stationary shoot for a lot of the angles we need to see but with the turntable and the professional tripod that I bought for my film camera back in the day with an adapter to hold the phone whenever possible, I'm getting by for the moment. This time around though for some reason I was hooking the tripod on the lamp and I'm convinced the background noise is from my headset (which I use for a microphone) cord rubbing on the tripod. I may have to see if I can find those twist-ums to give me some other options though.