the nothing ,anything ,everything thread

[opmania]

This is a thread with no particular

Topic so no one can be off topic 🙂

So if anyone out there has something 

To say about anything you like now

Is your chance

Keep it clean 

And be nice 

See how long that lasts

Can we keep politics and religion out 

Of the conversation 

[opmania]

Even singer has gone offshore

To dare I say

China?

[lloydslights]

Just been looking up some info.  The newer models have replaced former metal cogs and bits with nylon/plastic components and they don't last as long and replacements are apparently unavailable.  

Well, go and buy a new machine!!!  That keeps a business operational doesn't it?

Lurker, there was Wertheim and White brands.  Bernina, Elna???

I have just recently restored a 1910? model,that has 6 drawers and fancy wood trim.  Shined up the real chrome. Have to find a replacement electrical plug/lead for it's later conversion motor with light attachment.  The leather belt has been oiled up and re-stapled to suit.  I have some spare old buttons, laces, snaps, hooks/eyes, etc that I put into the drawers when I re-sell.  One of our illustrious members was kind enough to forward some to me a few years ago.

Looking good

DEB

[lurker172602]

Actually, now that I look further I think it was almost exactly like this one (or 371462909495), so maybe it was a Singer.  Were they considered expensive then?  I wonder where I got that idea from?

[opmania]

By the sixties the sewing machine

Had well an truly become a 

Household necessity with England, 

Germany and USA being

Superceded in modern times

By Scandinavian countries

[opmania]

Now you can  buy a sewing

Machine in the price range

From $199-$1999

You pay for what you get

From a basic stitch etc

To the top of the range which 

Has amazing functions and

Programmimg,

Wakes  you up in the morning

While handing you a coffee

And the paper

[lloydslights]

That is very similar,  if not the model I learnt - 201K Model.  Mum had it in the cabinet.  I still have the stool for it which housed the Enid Gilchrist dressmaking pattern books.

DEB

[ecar3483]

I owned a machine that looked a lot like that one, I think it was called a "Can whistle along in time to the tune", because it definitely wasn't a Singer.

[lloydslights]

How about this for a Whistler.  Take it away Roger Whittaker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaPoBhiMkgs

[tasfleur]

Wow!   Some lovely machines there.   

[lloydslights]

I'm off for a nap.  Can everybody behave themselves while I'm gone?  

Some of my playmates' mummies have grounded whole tribes of off-spring.  

Well at least till I get back.

DEB