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ArchaicArcane

Well, how embarrassing would that have been then if I'd tried to attach it to a presser bar and use it.
I think mine is broken...

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So this really really is one "sewing notion" I can throw out?
How the heck would car parts get in a sewing drawer?

chris_quilts

Tammi, Because it looks kinda like part of an older presser foot set. I haven't seen that yet but I got some old drill bits one time in an attachment box.

ArchaicArcane

You're right, it does. I have a vague recollection that I might have tried to slip it on a machine a realised that the spring stopped it from fitting under the presser bar properly and wouldn't (couldn't) line up to insert the thumbscrew.

At least drill bits are useful

I asked DH why he didn't recognize it as a point for a car (total gear head) and he says:
"Well, because pretty much no car built after the 50s has had them? I've never seen one either! Keeping in mind that points were in cars whose production was being phased out not long after our parents were born."

Oh.

SteveH

MOPAR (Chrysler, Plymouth, Dodge) used points up until 1973. I've owned several 60
s and early 70's with points.... Ahhh the joy...

J Miller

Same with GM and FoMoCo. They went electronic in 1974.

Joe

Macybaby

Since DH and I were married many years before we could afford a NEW car, we owned many that had points.

We were married in 1979, and our first "brand new" car was a 1987 K-car Aries Wagon.

I may be able to splurge on sewing machines now, but there were many, many years in my life squeezing an extra $10 out of the budget was very difficult to do. I try to explain that to my young adult kids - I didn't always have play money like I do now (maybe that is because I did have kids LOL!!)

tessagin

Dh saw that and said "What has that got to do with sewing?" LOL!!

Macybaby

While automobiles may not use them anymore, a lot of small equipment still does. I'm taking my DH's word for this, I'm not going out in the cold to the shed and checking any of our equipment.

I have another item I can't figure out - will have to post pictures of that one later. It's not near as intersting as this one though.

manicmike

Chrysler was probably the first major manufacturer to stop using points. GM and Fords here definitely used points until the 1980s.