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Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-04-2018, 05:50 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 3,828
Posted By Brass Head

Wonderful. It warms my heart to see these...

Wonderful. It warms my heart to see these beautiful old machine restored to use, and the 66 is a great machine. I love the way they sound. We have one electric, one treadle, one handcrank.
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-03-2018, 10:10 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,915
Posted By Brass Head

The only Brother I have lives in Iowa and can't...

The only Brother I have lives in Iowa and can't sew a stitch. But the exact contours of our love for these old machines are not as important as the love itself. I understand how painful it is to...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-03-2018, 10:02 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,915
Posted By Brass Head

Out of left field...

Hi, I took delivery today of a backup/parts machine for my 4100, though it looks good enough to fix it up in its own right. Amongst all the goodies was the original manual, and folded up in the...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-03-2018, 02:48 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 4,133
Posted By Brass Head

In a few weeks here, it might get above freezing....

In a few weeks here, it might get above freezing. When it does, we get mud, then black flies, then we work like crazy to get ready for the next winter. New Englanders love this stuff. It's a disease,...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-03-2018, 01:38 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 4,133
Posted By Brass Head

Come to think of it, this green reminds me a...

Come to think of it, this green reminds me a little of the original green Fiestaware, with a uranium-based glaze pigment, often alleged to be worrisomely radioactive. Same time period too. Hmmm.
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-03-2018, 01:34 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 4,133
Posted By Brass Head

Here's a proper edit of my earlier catastrophe. ...

Here's a proper edit of my earlier catastrophe.

I love your informative and ardent posts. Here's one of two resident 21's here. This is a 110v "Viking" import; the other is a 220v Euro "Husqvarna...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-03-2018, 01:25 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 4,133
Posted By Brass Head

Mod please delete this inverted monstrosity of a...

Mod please delete this inverted monstrosity of a post. Tnx.
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-03-2018, 01:01 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 4,133
Posted By Brass Head

I love your informative and brighteyed posts....

I love your informative and brighteyed posts. Here's one of two resident 21's here. This is a 110v "Viking" import; the other is a 220v Euro model which I run off a little converter (praying each...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-03-2018, 12:45 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 4,287
Posted By Brass Head

I've been on the lookout for one of these. Should...

I've been on the lookout for one of these. Should be pretty light? Does it sound like a featherweight? I always thought the aluminum-bodied machines sound a little clattery: not a bad thing, but not...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-02-2018, 02:22 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 4,133
Posted By Brass Head

Yep. The tensioner on the faceplate is different,...

Yep. The tensioner on the faceplate is different, likewise the swung-around take-up lever: looks like a 15-91, so it's en famille​, as the Japanese say. Underneath it looks like straightforward class...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-02-2018, 02:13 PM
Replies: 19
Views: 4,133
Posted By Brass Head

I've looked it over, and aside from a few tiny...

I've looked it over, and aside from a few tiny pecks, it looks perfect (The case in micro-ocelot contact paper, half adrift, not so much!). I put a belt on it, and it went round-and-round and...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-02-2018, 11:02 AM
Replies: 19
Views: 4,133
Posted By Brass Head

A Study in Green(ishness)

I agreed to meet a guy, cash in hand, in the parking lot at the VA in White River Junction, Vermont. He turned out to be a very craggy and somewhat sad-looking guy, a Viet Nam vet maybe, so I knew...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-02-2018, 03:01 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,915
Posted By Brass Head

I have seen a 1955 ad with this machine in this...

I have seen a 1955 ad with this machine in this color. They were first imported in 1953. The Morse lawsuits, I thought, were more about obscuring the "Made in Japan" label than about the machinery,...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-02-2018, 02:40 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 16,374
Posted By Brass Head

Beautiful! I love those old workingman...

Beautiful! I love those old workingman expressions: they're dying out, alas.
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-01-2018, 11:39 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 16,374
Posted By Brass Head

Heh heh. I wrote an essay once on the proper use...

Heh heh. I wrote an essay once on the proper use of the hammer. My thesis was that you can best tell an expert, seasoned mechanic by how he uses his hammers (and his torches). He knows which hammer...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-01-2018, 11:21 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,915
Posted By Brass Head

The German machines are an unexplored territory...

The German machines are an unexplored territory for me. I look forward to traveling there! The older handcrank machines are fascinating.

I have a Pfaff 230 in the basement (greyish, as I recall!),...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-01-2018, 10:42 AM
Replies: 18
Views: 16,374
Posted By Brass Head

Not much to add, except that waiting overnight,...

Not much to add, except that waiting overnight, after having drenched the thing in your elixir of choice, sometimes does the trick. After the elixir, you can lightly/sharply tappety-tap-tap with a...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-01-2018, 10:06 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 4,512
Posted By Brass Head

Just to complete the picture, one of my dogs,...

Just to complete the picture, one of my dogs, Lena, also in shell pink....


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Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-01-2018, 09:56 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 4,512
Posted By Brass Head

I know. My wife has been very patient with me so...

I know. My wife has been very patient with me so far. She loves sewing on them, but it's become clear that I am driven more by my own obsessiveness than by generosity toward her. I've given a few...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-01-2018, 09:26 AM
Replies: 8
Views: 1,915
Posted By Brass Head

At last (almost)

I have been struggling with this Morse 4100 for a month. It's a '53 or '54, I think, one of the earlier Morse Foto-Matics. The brochure says that the grey color was designed by Japanese scientists...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-01-2018, 08:59 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 4,512
Posted By Brass Head

My favorite thing about the Atlas: a pink winder...

My favorite thing about the Atlas: a pink winder tire! Who THINKS of stuff like that?
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-01-2018, 04:31 AM
Replies: 30
Views: 13,661
Posted By Brass Head

Then sometimes you get those dinky Xmas tree...

Then sometimes you get those dinky Xmas tree bulbs which provide no light at all. Festive but useless.

I hate led's for no rational reason whatsoever. I hate seatbelt ads for the same (non)reason,...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-01-2018, 04:02 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 4,512
Posted By Brass Head

As for the busy display of chromium knobbery,...

As for the busy display of chromium knobbery, here's an early 60's,Made in Japan Teisco.

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Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-01-2018, 03:47 AM
Replies: 17
Views: 4,512
Posted By Brass Head

Cool A Study in Shell Pink

Someone mentioned Atlases in an earlier thread.

Like many these days, I am interested in mid-century design. Pictures here of a shell pink early 60's Stratocaster and of my Atlas, patiently and...
Forum: For Vintage & Antique Machine Enthusiasts
01-01-2018, 03:09 AM
Replies: 5
Views: 2,663
Posted By Brass Head

Those kookie aftermarket cranks work better than...

Those kookie aftermarket cranks work better than their loosey-goosey construction might suggest. I put one on a 66, a 1921 with the correct handwheel in place. I mounted it in a shelf next to her old...
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