SteveH

cleaned up really nice!

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SteveH

beauty shot...
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and for those of us who geek on things like this...

the needles arrived today.
they are 46x1, 1571, Sy2550, POx1 (sheesh)


OK, so this is the Long groove side
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This is the "short" groove side
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Makes perfect sense. A normal no groove on one side needle would make a loop so big that it would wrap around the whole lower mechanism two or three times... The short groove allows just enough of a loop to form to allow the micro curved needle in the post bed to work it's magic.... Too cool, love to learn.

OurWorkbench

That is so nice. I had wondered how gloves were made. I remember wearing dress gloves to church. Many years ago I found some cotton dress gloves at a yard sale. I used them for gardening, cleaning, etc. to kind of protect my hands and still be able to feel what I was working with. I still have some that I wear under my "work" gloves (working with sheet metal). I have had to do some repairs of holes and stitching that had come out, always by hand. I noticed that they must have been made on machines and so it is neat to see a machine that would have been used to make them.

Janey - Neat people never make the exciting discoveries I do.

SteveH

I woke up this morning and checked my email to find that I had received a letter from the super nice folks in Yeovil England. (where this machine was made and used in the 1800's)

"An amazing coincidence but I was talking to a colleague who works for South Somerset District Council and who is interested in history and I told her about your James Moffat sewing machine. It turns out her mother is the granddaughter of James Moffat and would like to write to you if possible, she doesn’t do e-mail I’m afraid. She is 88 and with it as we say and she has a lot of stories about the shop as I believe they used to live above it."



Well, duhhh! I sent me address already and because of the time difference Clare was able to reply already the the address is now passed on. I should be receiving a letter in a week or two!

What are the odds....?

Mariposa

Congrats on your neat find!

Justsosew

My heart fluttered a bit looking at these photos. What a lovely machine. Slightly off topic, but this video is so worth watching. There's a business that makes and repairs jeans. They have all vintage machines that do so. This is like visual poetry:

https://vimeo.com/96590804

tessagin

That was so entertaining!! Thanks for sharing!!

19cats

Beautiful machine. How long are those needles? Is PO1 the point size?

SteveH

which machine? the one the thread was about or the Jeans machine?

If the Moffat machine, the POx1 is another "system". "46x1, 1571, Sy2550, POx1" are all the same needle just represented by different names for each needle systems sold under

Cari-in-Oly

Now how cool is that? Steve you must be living right. To get a personal history like this is amazing.

Cari