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08-01-2011, 03:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Charlee

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Cross everything you can for me...have an email out to someone selling an A.G. Mason "New Florence" treadle machine...am hoping beyond hope that they haven't sold it yet...it's freakin GORGEOUS!! A.G. Mason was a subsidiary company of White...so while many refer to the machine as a "White" is technically is not...

WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! She's mine...I go to get her on Weds!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
~happy dance~

Congrats, Charlee!!! Wow...another gorgeous machine.

08-01-2011, 03:45 PM

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Originally Posted by grayhare

http://modesto.craigslist.org/atq/2523182569.html
Take a look at this, it must have been buried somewhere.

Is anyone going after this? OK, now I see that you did!! Wow.....another Wow!!! Can't wait to see what it comes out as.

08-01-2011, 03:47 PM

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pennijanine

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I got it. I will post some pics in a while.

08-01-2011, 03:51 PM

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BoJangles

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Originally Posted by Candace

Candace how does the 185K sound when you sew on it? Is it loud, groany sounding? There is a gal that comes to our Girl's Night Out with a 185K that sounds terrible, but sews really nice. By the way, really nice machine. I love the way those 185's look!

Nancy

Nancy, no my 185K machine doesn't make any groaning. It sounds like your friend's machine needs to be cleaned and oiled. Or maybe the belt is going bad. I cleaned and oiled mine and no noises that strike me as odd, or loud. My recent 301A acquisition(not yet posted a photo), had this exact groaning problem. It took me a while but I oiled and greased it then oiled and greased it some more and the groaning went away. So, to me, in any vintage model it sounds like the groaning is the machine's way of telling the owner it's very 'thirsty'. Hope this helps!

Well, deep cleaning and oiling is what I'd do, but the machine does not belong to me. The gal that owns it said she has oiled and oiled the machine, but it sounds terrible - a sound that I would not be able to tolerate long - it would bug me too much. I just wanted to make sure there was no quirk with the 185 that makes that groaning sound.

Thank you for answering me.

Nancy

08-01-2011, 03:56 PM

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BoJangles

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Originally Posted by tomilu

Picked this up for a friend. Looks like a commercial version of the 130. Pretty neat treadle. Anyone seen a 130 like this?
Tommie

Tommie, I wish you lived closer to me! I'd take that Pfaff treadle in a second! I have not even seen one in person yet!

Nancy

08-01-2011, 04:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Lostn51

Oh here is my new machine I just have to pick it up when the young lady gets home Tuesday. I will post photos of it when I get it home, but it is a Wilcox and Gibbs industrial. Good thing I have about 6000 needles for this one!! :P

Billy

Billy please post a better picture when you get this machine home. It looks similar (except the HW) to one from our Craigslist that I am trying to get to see.

http://sacramento.craigslist.org/hsh/2517149361.html

Nancy

08-01-2011, 04:22 PM

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http://kpr.craigslist.org/art/2524346546.html

If I didn't already own a great one of these 401A machines, I would go for this one.

Charlee... it is just a wee bit of a drive for you... (tryin' to enable as best I can). (:| who me??)

08-01-2011, 04:23 PM

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No problem! If she is oiling it, she very well may not be oiling it correctly. Or in the spot where it's needing it most. That would annoy the heck out of me too. Or it needs the lubricant rather than the oil in a spot or two.