My birthday present to self, Empira treadle from a fellow QB'er, It's different!
05-21-2014, 07:58 AM
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Happy birthday; but here all along, I've thought oldsewnsew was a lady.....Oh well. The road trip pictures were worth it for my reading this post this morning. DH and I love the road trips, but ours are limited to the South, here pretty close to home. I don't drive anymore, and he can last about 6 hours of daylight driving at the most. When we leave out in the morning, we stop somewhere for breakfast, then he drives as long as the full tank of gas holds out, and I start watching for a Hampton Inn.
05-22-2014, 05:53 AM
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Happy Birthday, that is one cool sewing machine. To answer Joe's question, I would imagine that the old oil varnish is sperm whale oil. Many of the older sewing machine manuals recommend the "best sperm oil. I think that the oil varnish protected many of my old machines from rusting.
06-22-2014, 09:19 AM
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Discovered something new about this treadle mechanism
I was doing other things in the garage, and I always like the sensation of turning handcranks, and spinning treadle flywheels. I'd noticed earlier, that more some reason it was always easier to get this Empira to go in the right direction. I'd also picked up on Willcox & Gibbs treadles as having a rubber ball that would fall into place wedging it from going in the wrong direction. Well, turns out this Empira has a similar idea that I think could easily be adapted to other treadle mfrs. Its, simply a short iron lever that drops down on the belt, because the hinge is upstream, so to speak, it allows the belt to move in one direction.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]480037[/ATTACH] A simple thing, but nice, add that to the fact it's reversible, and it's even sweeter.
[ATTACH=CONFIG]480037[/ATTACH] A simple thing, but nice, add that to the fact it's reversible, and it's even sweeter.
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