The Machine That I Fiddled With Today
12-01-2014, 02:26 PM
#691
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Ok, let’s get down to some facts here.
How can you tell when it’s cat spray and when it’s mouse spray? Is there something in the essence of it? The texture? The color of the rag that mopped it up? The amount of eye-watering when cleaning it up? What?
And how do you know it’s not just a drunken spouse messing with the owner? Or a toddler that is learning how to write his name?
CD in Oklahoma
How can you tell when it’s cat spray and when it’s mouse spray? Is there something in the essence of it? The texture? The color of the rag that mopped it up? The amount of eye-watering when cleaning it up? What?
And how do you know it’s not just a drunken spouse messing with the owner? Or a toddler that is learning how to write his name?
CD in Oklahoma
Christy, is the height measured from the ground, or the relative height of the .... donor?
12-01-2014, 03:29 PM
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Well, you might not have helped that particular "fix it" technique disappear with your recent ads... 
I'm sure there are good T&S machines. I have a mental block against them because the one I got or my 10th birthday wasn't the bicycle I'd asked for and I wasn't allowed to take lessons, so all of my learning was by trial and error. I learned to duck flying needle shrapnel, knit sweaters for my bobbins and otherwise ruin projects. 24 years later, we attended couples counseling (sewing lessons) where I learned that I was the problem in the relationship and I learned to make that machine work for me but the relationship was already so damaged that we divorced soon afterward and I can't date another T&S to this day.
I'm sure there are good T&S machines. I have a mental block against them because the one I got or my 10th birthday wasn't the bicycle I'd asked for and I wasn't allowed to take lessons, so all of my learning was by trial and error. I learned to duck flying needle shrapnel, knit sweaters for my bobbins and otherwise ruin projects. 24 years later, we attended couples counseling (sewing lessons) where I learned that I was the problem in the relationship and I learned to make that machine work for me but the relationship was already so damaged that we divorced soon afterward and I can't date another T&S to this day.
12-01-2014, 04:12 PM
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HA HA HA HA..... you made my day... leg height...
I picked up a VERY ugly machine - pics later. I was cleaning away and rebuilding the tension and my phone rang. Some guy bought a machine from me a few weeks ago and he LOVES LOVES LOVES that machine and he has told all his buddies about it. LOL... Anyway one of his buddies called and tried to sell me his grandma's 239 or something. So I talked to him a while. I didn't want the thing. I donated the eight I had to a school since they don't move for me but they were working. I told him how to try to try to market it and he might get $30 out of it. I told him he needed to clean it up a little and sew a swatch. Take more pictures. Show how it has metal gears if it does... Well. He figured out it isn't unmanly to sew after all. As I walked him through how to learn to sew on it he decided to keep it and learn to sew... SCORE!!!
I picked up a VERY ugly machine - pics later. I was cleaning away and rebuilding the tension and my phone rang. Some guy bought a machine from me a few weeks ago and he LOVES LOVES LOVES that machine and he has told all his buddies about it. LOL... Anyway one of his buddies called and tried to sell me his grandma's 239 or something. So I talked to him a while. I didn't want the thing. I donated the eight I had to a school since they don't move for me but they were working. I told him how to try to try to market it and he might get $30 out of it. I told him he needed to clean it up a little and sew a swatch. Take more pictures. Show how it has metal gears if it does... Well. He figured out it isn't unmanly to sew after all. As I walked him through how to learn to sew on it he decided to keep it and learn to sew... SCORE!!!
12-01-2014, 05:24 PM
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12-01-2014, 06:09 PM
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Ok another good laugh. I saw this on the GW auction, felt sorry for it and bought it. I knew from the get go it was not a pretty face. I just kind of felt like messing with it though. Ok. UGLY. butt ugly... It still needs some more work but I thought I'd show it anyway. Nothing seriously wrong with it. I took apart the tensions, cleaned etc. I cleaned out the bobbin area and under the feed dogs - nothing serious. I cleaned the back and the stitch length. Only thing wrong seems to be ugliness and WIRING is pretty bad. BUT That machine turns like a dream. WOW.
That ugly thing needs a poem... maybe because it runs like a poem... er sewing machine...
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That ugly thing needs a poem... maybe because it runs like a poem... er sewing machine...
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12-09-2014, 12:38 PM
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Thanks to the discussion about the Singer 96-60 over in another thread, I took time today to dig out my Singer Industrial Convertible Treadle stand and put the 2-piece pitman rod together with the coupling nut that a treadling friend of mine down in Arkansas came up with this summer. I’m so glad to finally find that nut, and it went on just like it was made for it (which it is, I guess).
The treadle parts haven’t been used in who knows how many years, so everything is moving pretty stiff. I oiled all of the motion points and backed the cone bolt out a tad on the flywheel axle, gave it several good spins, and now will let it set and soak up the oil for a while.
Now, I need to decide which top to put on it for my Singer 96-40. I’ve got 2-3 to pick from. I sure like the bobbed-off top that I have on my MUTT with the 31-15 in it, but I’m thinking that a full-sized 4-ft long top may be better for FMQ. Those big tops just take so danged much room in a tiny house.....
CD in Oklahoma
The treadle parts haven’t been used in who knows how many years, so everything is moving pretty stiff. I oiled all of the motion points and backed the cone bolt out a tad on the flywheel axle, gave it several good spins, and now will let it set and soak up the oil for a while.
Now, I need to decide which top to put on it for my Singer 96-40. I’ve got 2-3 to pick from. I sure like the bobbed-off top that I have on my MUTT with the 31-15 in it, but I’m thinking that a full-sized 4-ft long top may be better for FMQ. Those big tops just take so danged much room in a tiny house.....
CD in Oklahoma
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