November 2, 2019 Get Together Part 2
Within the last few days Dianne got a another beautiful miniature machine for her collection, called an Ideal, which she brought to show us. It is a chain stitch machine with a hand crank made with nickel-plated parts. She wore gloves as she touched the recently polished parts of the machine to keep them from getting fingerprints. We are guessing it was made around 1920, with a patent applied for in 1910 in Great Britain and 1911 in United States. It came with a rounded top metal cover. The crank is directly connected to the handwheel, so the crank turns the normal way, but the handwheel turns in the reverse direction to most handwheels. She assembled a nice notebook of instructions and information about it. A very nice addition to her impressive collection of miniature machines.
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Dorothy talked a little bit about obtaining some replacement springs for her Elna 62C, which is having trouble with the back tack control. Several suggestions were made, including a possible hardware store replacement. Dorothy also talked a bit about a new Juki machine arriving this week where she works. It will be a fully programmable industrial machine and she is looking forward to working with it.
James brought a recently acquired (from Shopgoodwill) White Family Rotary machine in a wooden case, probably dated early 1920s. It has the old Hamilton Beach swing-away motor. It has an interesting connector on the cable going to the motor. It came with no controller and James is looking for a controller for it. Cheryl pointed out one that might be available and gave him information to look into it. Like some White machines, it has a handwheel with a latch mechanism, rather than a clutch.
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We plan to meet again next month in December and will post those meeting notes here, as always.