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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
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OMG!! A red Bel Air on shop goodwill. http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem...temID=11158125 I know we had the discussion of tell or don't tell, but wow, if someone is hunting red. Looks similar to sewmore, with the indentation for the thread and the badges. Cute!!
Actually, if you had a white on yours...it was probably aluminum rot. Which is not a good thing. I hope you got all of that off of it by sanding because it comes back under the paint and eats away the aluminum. My long bed 301 had a touch of that that I had to remove some of the paint to get to. I used my Dremmel on it and carefully monitored it to make sure I had gotten it all off.
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Cadillac, MI
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That red machine is gorgeous. Now I want a red or a pink machine. When does it stop? I think I want pink more than red.
I had white oxidation also on a featherweight...I scrapped off all loose paint and then oiled the daylights out of it!! Thought that would at least stop the oxidation for a bit....so now you think I should dremmel it to clean it all off? Don't really plan on a repaint on it. It's only about 1/4 - 1/2" from the bottom of the base upward.
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Join Date: Apr 2007
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The aquarium tubing works pretty good. I'm running my 9W-7 #1 with it right now:
Pull it around and cut it where it would meet up. Then cut 1" off that to use as a coupler. To make the coupler slit the one inch piece length wise, roll it up tight and put it in one end then the other.
It's cheep too.
Joe
Pull it around and cut it where it would meet up. Then cut 1" off that to use as a coupler. To make the coupler slit the one inch piece length wise, roll it up tight and put it in one end then the other.
It's cheep too.
Joe
Sharon, Your new Pfaff in treadle look SWEET! I like the look of the cabinet and treadle. Enjoy and happy treadling!
If someone on here gets the red machine, please post better pics of it. I have already bid as deep as my pockets would go and been outbid, when I factor in shipping. I will just have to wait, but there is a red machine out there somewhere waiting for me.
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The tubing worked on the treadle, but not the portable I tried. So it won't work on everything.
Joe
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That red machine is a very nice machine IMHO. Very nice straight stitch machine.
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