Sewing machine repair
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Sewing machine repair
Anyone ever hear about a sewing machine repair course that you can buy online and have the books downloaded on your computer? Thinking I might want to get into this as part of my antique sewing machine hobby.
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http://www.sewingmachinerepair.net/
http://sewingmachinerepair.com/
here are two sites. I am sure there are more.
http://sewingmachinerepair.com/
here are two sites. I am sure there are more.
#6
I would recommend self-teaching.
There's a guide online that I'd highly recommend. http://www.tfsr.org/publications/tec...achine_manual/
Brilliantly clear guide, and focuses on old Singer machines. I've used it several times for stuff like adjusting tensions.
It's cheaper to buy a couple of machines to learn with, seeing as they're plentiful and cheap. My local tip shop sells working and complete taiwanese and Japanese machines from the late '60s for about $4 each. You should be able to get one or two to disassemble and play with. If you can clean and reassemble, then sew with it, well done.
Sewing machines (old ones) are brilliant, yet simple to understand. Most of the info is online and if you find the right shop, parts can be super cheap. I get parts and supplies cheaper from there than I've ever seen on eBay.
There's a guide online that I'd highly recommend. http://www.tfsr.org/publications/tec...achine_manual/
Brilliantly clear guide, and focuses on old Singer machines. I've used it several times for stuff like adjusting tensions.
It's cheaper to buy a couple of machines to learn with, seeing as they're plentiful and cheap. My local tip shop sells working and complete taiwanese and Japanese machines from the late '60s for about $4 each. You should be able to get one or two to disassemble and play with. If you can clean and reassemble, then sew with it, well done.
Sewing machines (old ones) are brilliant, yet simple to understand. Most of the info is online and if you find the right shop, parts can be super cheap. I get parts and supplies cheaper from there than I've ever seen on eBay.
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That TFSR manual is the best course you could find - just find a few junker machines then allow yourself to fail.... If you succeed you win. If you don't try you lose.
Ray White has very good repair classes.
Ray White has very good repair classes.
#9
http://www.sewingmachinerepair.net/
http://sewingmachinerepair.com/
here are two sites. I am sure there are more.
http://sewingmachinerepair.com/
here are two sites. I am sure there are more.
Basic format:
Story about you - bond with the reader.
Offer an "irresistible" deal - probably time limited (so they say)
Free Bonus - value of 1 million dollars or some other number for something you can't really verify the value of
Testimonials you can't verify
Outrageous claims - Be your own boss, make tons of money in your spare time, be smarter than an engineer, etc. (Notice the disclaimers at the end of the page?)
Money back guarantee
What? We haven't hooked you yet? More "bonuses" with unverifiable values...
But hurry!! This price won't last!
Easy way to sign up - just click the link
Once you go to the next page, they'll try to get your credit card info, and then on top of that, they'll sign you up for a monthly program (this is called "Micro Continuity" - a recurring source of income for the website owner.) that you can cancel at "Any time" - good luck, you'll more than likely have to stop payment with your CC company.
The ebook isn't the "valuable" item, they want you in the continuity program. Even if you forget to cancel after the 10 or 14 days of "free" access, but cancel after that, they got an extra $25, $50, or more out of you.
This format isn't any different than the late night infomercials that try to sell you on "flipping houses" or some other money scheme.
Typically, they're poorly written, poor grammar, etc.
If you really want to know what their product is like, often there's a way to subscribe to a "tips" email. That will clue you in to how good the product might be.
There are websites out there that "teach" this "micro continuity" program (using a micro continuity program to do it) so these sites are all over the place because people bought into the program and think they can get rich this way.
Learn from the TFSR.org pages and by Googling. Lots of people, myself included, make this information freely available.
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