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Originally Posted by Nanamoms
No, you shoudn't!!! :) I never see anything on CL in my area so I'm always looking in the state where my best friend lives. If I find something I want, I order her to go get it! LOL
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Originally Posted by incoming2me
Originally Posted by tomilu
Originally Posted by purplefiend
Originally Posted by tomilu
... I'm going to take the head out of the case, convert to a HC and ship to Afghanistan to a soldier.
Tommie Sharon W. http://www.treadleon.net/woodshop/bu...dingbases.html |
Originally Posted by incoming2me
Originally Posted by Nanamoms
No, you shoudn't!!! :) I never see anything on CL in my area so I'm always looking in the state where my best friend lives. If I find something I want, I order her to go get it! LOL
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Here is the link to a tutorial I did on threading the shuttle bobbin.
http://www.youtube.com/user/tam73501?feature=mhee Hope it helps some of you out with this. Tammy |
Originally Posted by Miz Johnny
Lately I've been working on my machines using cardboard flats--they work really well at keeping table tops clean AND catching screws, etc. as they fall.
I worked on my Kruse and Murphy HC a bit over the weekend, but couldn't quite figure out the needle and couldn't make it stitch. I could see the way the needle SHOULD go in, but the only way it fit was backwards. Of course, it wouldn't stitch properly, and kept breaking threads. Finally, someone asked if the needlebar might possibly be backwards. Darned if they weren't right. I haven't taken it apart and put it back together the RIGHT way, but will get around to it eventually, I guess.
Originally Posted by miriam
Originally Posted by cabbagepatchkid
Originally Posted by miriam
they have 13 screws in them and I'm dreading it if I loose one.
This one had an oil bath set up with dried up oil bath, dried up lines, dried up wicks - I've cleaned it once. Now is time to truly disassemble one section at a time and do again -maybe needs a microscope to find all the gunk. It only seems to take a small amount to really mess things over. The thread isn't going around the shuttle right. I think it is gunk. The timing is ok but it isn't going the whole trip. It could also be burrs. The tension spring is backwards - I have to figure out that one. Then get another machine to look at while you are working. Take off it's feed dogs too so you can see the hook and needle. Pay close attention to how the needle and the shuttle hook eclipse. There are service manuals free on line. I posted some a while ago. It would be helpful to have one - just about any will tell you what screw you need to loosen to turn that needle bar around or set the timing. You CAN do it! Anyway loosen the screw (at the top, inside the nose cover) that holds the needle bar on. Turn the needle bar around. Get the needle eye and the hook in position (hard part) Then tighten the screw. If it doesn't work you have to repeat until it does work. |
Originally Posted by Weedwoman
Took pics of newly acquired Brother. I'm hoping they upload.
Nancy |
Originally Posted by BoJangles
Originally Posted by Weedwoman
Took pics of newly acquired Brother. I'm hoping they upload.
Nancy |
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kwendt wrote: miriam wrote: kwendt wrote: miriam wrote: But naming the old machines after a celeb? that's a thought! Maybe I should name some of my old singer girls, "Francis Langford", "Betty Boop", Cyd Charisse and maybe "Bettie Page" or "Jessica Rabbit". lol! I have one named after Blaze Starr! My singer 201k is called Starr. I grew up in the Baltimore area and remember adults talking about Blaze Starr and the 2o'clock club down in the city when I was a kid. Well, after I found my machine, I decided to call it Starr, and then Blaze popped into my head...which led to me thinking of Blaze Starr. I read somewhere that she sewed her own clothes. I can picture her with a Singer! I remember my parents talking about Blaze Starr. B/C I lived in Md as a child. My parents knew Baltimore pretty well. Any way what I am getting at is a year or so ago they had Blaze Starr's FW on e bay. can't remember what it was sold for. They showed a picture of her machine and supposedly some of the costumes she had made with the FW. Another person my parents talked about was Gypsy Rose Lee and I think she made her own clothes when just starting out. OMG! I remember the adults talking about Gypsy Rose Lee too! I didn't know that she too sewed her own clothes. I didn't know she WORE clothes ;... I think she was more interested in taking them off <wave> Omak, That is too funny! I proves that "truth is funnier than fiction"! Jan on 446 |
Originally Posted by lee231
Seen a 99k centennial model in thrift store this morning. Is in nice shape in a small blond cabinet, missing bobbin cover plate, has a few bobbins in the drawer, no attachments. Has a price tag of $32 on it. I'm thinking of putting in an offer of $25 on it. What do you guys think?
Nancy |
Originally Posted by Launie
Now the other night I was doing a bit of sewing on O.I. and the bobbin threads are all squiggly. Any ideas as to why?
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