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Originally Posted by Charlee
Originally Posted by Charlee
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...
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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.
Take a look at this, it must have been buried somewhere.
I got it. I will post some pics in a while.
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!
Thank you for answering me.
Nancy
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
Nancy
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
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/hsh/2517149361.html
Nancy
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??)
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??)
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Originally Posted by BoJangles
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!
Thank you for answering me.
Nancy
Originally Posted by BrandyMcCoy
Originally Posted by BrandyMcCoy
These are two of my many machines...
Originally Posted by Charlee
Originally Posted by Charlee
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...
~happy dance~
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