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Freak of Nature
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![[Linked Image from i.postimg.cc]](https://i.postimg.cc/g00bCs2g/IMG-3134.jpg) Had to work on wife’s sewing machine. No boards, no chips, no plastic, no cussing. Just needed cleaning and oiling and a new drive tire on the bobbin loader. Parts available from several sources. Part numbers still original. American mechanical ingenuity.
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GUVNER
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GUVNER
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My wife has a 1930 one. It still works, she uses it regularly.
"Never Trust Government" -- Smart people.
"The Great thing we should Fear and the Weird Thing we Trust is Elon Musk" -- Me
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." -- Ruthie-May Webster
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4 point
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I have my grandmother’s certificate from the 30’s (maybe late 20’s) where she was certified to use and teach others how to run them.
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Had to work on wife’s sewing machine. No boards, no chips, no plastic, no cussing. Just needed cleaning and oiling and a new drive tire on the bobbin loader. Parts available from several sources. Part numbers still original. American mechanical ingenuity. Is that with the pedal foot board, on the bottom, where you flat foot your feet and then rock it back and forth? My mother had one for years until she went to an electric one.
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Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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I remember my grandma using an old singer that hade a foot pedal that turned a flywheel to make it go. This was in the early 70's. She was too. I'm not sure where it ended up. Probably with one of my aunts.
She had a gas stove and heaters that all had to be lit with kitchen matches when I was a young-un. Man, she sure was an artist with that old stove. I can't remember even one time when she didn't have some kind of home-made sweets for us kids. Mom knew better than to tell us no at Granny's house. Tea-cakes, oatmeal cookies, pies, pudding, cakes, brownies, fudge, cobblers, etc. And never from a box. Oh, and she was diabetic, so she couldn't partake of any of it herself. What she served up was pure love.
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Back when companies didn’t believe in built in obsolescence! This reminds me of my grandmother. Thanks for sharing
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That manual didn’t come in five languages.
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a.k.a. Dingle Johnson
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This is exactly why they quit making stuff like this.
If stuff lasts forever they can only sell so many of them.
"When I say ever thing I mean ever thing." - Frankie
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Booner
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There was two nice old ones at the Tuscaloosa thrift store a month or so ago. I don’t think I took any pics, but I started to.
I like old stuff…
Everything woke turns to shucks
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Freak of Nature
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Is that with the pedal foot board, on the bottom, where you flat foot your feet and then rock it back and forth? My mother had one for years until she went to an electric one. Electric. My sister has one that pedals she got from my grandma. That manual didn’t come in five languages. Nor did it start with warnings about sticking my finger or using it in the bathtub.
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Freak of Nature
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"Why do you ask"?
Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.
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GUVNER
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GUVNER
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There are thousands of online forums and groups that will help you get that machine in perfect working order. Here's a price guide. https://vintagegreenantiques.net/antique-singer-sewing-machine-value/
"Never Trust Government" -- Smart people.
"The Great thing we should Fear and the Weird Thing we Trust is Elon Musk" -- Me
"You can be broke but you cant be poor." -- Ruthie-May Webster
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