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    Cleaned out my closet today...

    were i too start a purge would it ever end. I USED to hire a real irish man name was tony fowley to drop a 22 foot dumpster off his 1976 ford Louisville truck. I USED to fill it full, every year but tony died so its not the same anymore. I am in the repair business and i usually have a lot of...
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    "The Jazz Singer" (1927).

    first film projectionist. A dear late friend of mine was bill, his dad was the projectionist at our local bijou and his first film was the jazz singer and his last film was nine to five with dolly parton, what a span and career behind the projector and 3 other jobs during the war years. The...
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    My New Old Car

    nothing wrong with 383 What a lovely engine that 383 was, had a polara , think that i am losing it and cant spell this late at night, i do remember the push button transmission that the d popped out a eighty miles an hour and holding the d button in. The left and right handed lug nuts and the...
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    All things Sewing Machines!

    sewing machines I dont recommend that brothers its made in china and a lot of plastic, i see a lot of brothers machines in that price range bought at walmart and they are not so good. They come out of time and wont sew denim. Thats opinion , sewing machine mechanic for thirty years. The janome...
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    Hats In The Car/A Newbie Question

    head clearance in automobiles In my stable of autos, in my gmc van i can wear my fedora and drive in comfort and in my studebaker sedan of course but my wifes twenty year old buick century i put my fedora on the floor hump. I find the height an issue more than the headrest but its depends on...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    white sewing machine heavy to carry. Calling that white sewing a portable is a misnomer, late sixites i do believe made in japan and really , really heavy. There is one nylon gear that can go in them, i have had to change one once or twice. But otherwise not a bad machine expect for the weight...
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    All things Sewing Machines!

    not common under that name but others. That machine is not common under nelco name but under the omega 1260 name it was sold in Canada, and originally its a sears model, in the 1970s. originally made by the happy sewing machine co. Manuals are available , top threading and locking your first...
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    Movin' on out!

    Twenty six years vs 180 years. I saw this post and it made me think of my own family who farm steaded land in norwich township in 1802 and we had to sell the farm in 1982. The 25 room farm house i was born in was the third home built on the land. The room that was mine had been my fathers...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    last photo is that a wheel to move the fabric instead of a foot, i have a reprint instruction manual for that machine i think. i have a 78 k ............ walking foot from the forties that do vinly and leather sewing on. those handcranks previous shown, the last one is a wheeler and wilson no 9...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    questions answered about sewing machines. First no the memphis decals were not for export only, actually the 27 and 127vs which stands for vibrating shuttle were the model T fords of the sewing machines, the first model really put into massive production and there were hundreds of thousands...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    that what i am saying. I am speaking from experience and i have seen a lot of them come in running slow and smoking and people have a tendency to overdo it and just slather them with grease. The motor lube for the older machines doesnt do a lot either has a tendency to go hard in the nickel...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    slant a matic 500 a The 500 was nicked name the rocketeor , for its modern buck rogers styling new in the late fifties when it was introduced even its buttonholer box was weirdly shaped and modern and one of those space show once used a rocketeor buttonholer case as a prop in a show science...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    miss 1929 i last comment looking at the picture of your machine the bakelite lamp cover is not pushed all the way to the right you shouldnt see the bulb from the top . it wont reflect the light right and the heat shield fits into the bakelite looks like all you have to do is push it to the...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    bo peep machines bo peep; you have a singer 15 88 which is one with a motor on the back with a leather belt part no 193077 and is the same machine as miss 1929 but with a different motor set up, and the cabinet you have it in is a style 40 with matching stool and the seven drawer treadle you...
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    Anybody Else Collect Sewing Machines?

    NICE machine miss 1929` miss ninteen twenty nine, what you have is a singer 15 91 direct drive oscilating hook straight stitch in a school cabinet with a knee bar bracket, which you can put the buttonstyle foot control on the floor or slide it into the bracket and use the knee bar bracket to...
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    I'm horrified.

    tacky treasures converters. I restore antique sewing machines , treadles sewing machilne and have seen people burn and chop them up to make hall stands, wet bars and tv tables and not only rough ones but mint rare ones, so someone encouraging such terrible acts doesnt not surprise 59LARK:offtopic:
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    Customer Service

    you dont get it do you. I guess i am lost in the past, i buy my appliances from small family owned business with the one emphasis, if it it breaks you fix it. I am sure that i understand the warranty and it limits. I recently bought my daughter a new lap top , from a small computer shop, we...
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    Dressing well returns?

    dressing well in a sloppy world. Was out xmas shopping in small deptment store and found myself the only one wearing a wool overcoat and fedora for sure, late in the music or electronic department got behind someone with a similar wool overcoat well dressed and when i looked at his reconized...
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    Help me please

    dare to be different. My late father said dont be a sheep you know what the wolves do to the sheeps, dont you. That said, dont wear a pair of shorts and t shirt with a fedora dress like a fedora is part of that set and enjoy. i wear a fedora straw in the summer and rabbit felt in winter all...
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    new fedora for lark59.

    new magill hat here. so on monday a box came from montreal, my three new fedoras came smooth felt finish, caribou, seven and three quaters, lovely except i forgot to specify the ribbon around the band and they put a one inch grey instead of two inch black, so my daughter went down into our hat...
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