Kind of at a standstill but still working on
I haven't been giving as much attention to the machine, but have been doing a few things. I will need to work on the wood (black walnut - oil rubbed originally), but need some warmer weather to do that.
I took off the brass bits and found that one of them had a leather piece under it as shown in this picture.
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and the left one had something under it but not as thick.
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I tried brasso and a cotton ball and this is how they looked after polishing a bit.
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I decided to try Nevr-Dull that I had gotten back in 2010 when I was working on my sister's machine. It seems to have dried out some, but evidently still has what it needs to clean off the tarnish. I don't if you can tell in this picture, but it seems to me that they are a different color, maybe a different batch of metal used for the lefts and rights.
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I think I may try to plug the screw holes for the hinge screws as most of them were not sitting flush with the hinges.
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I've been corresponding a bit with someone else that has a Weed FF and it appears that her machine has a leather piece under the bobbin winder. I would think that this might raise the bobbin winder to a position that would allow the bobbin winder tire to ride closer to parallel to the balance wheel. I also noticed a couple of brass pieces on the front opening of the table that may have been worn down or broken off. I'm thinking that originally they would have propped the bed up some in the front to help some more to raise the bobbin winder, also.
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I also wiped down the irons with sewing machine oil. There are some missing paint spots, but it looks really nice. (I didn't take any pictures of it yet, though.) I put a thick rubber band on the flywheel guard thing. I think that it will work to prevent the flywheel from going the wrong direction.
Seems like I'm missing something that I was going to write about, but can't think of it right now.
Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.