Words of Wisdom - Featuring my cat, Grace Slick
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- Опубликовано: 16 сен 2024
- This is dedicated to my good friends and colleagues Jennifer and Marie for having the patience to listen to me rant. Much love friends!
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That was good, im just starting out and im 72, sounds like wisdom to me……sure is fun to learn something new, with age comes patience too….
Grace Slick offers quality wisdom
AMEN, brother. Love the kitty!
What a wonderful way to motivate your viewers !!
Thank you so much for that pep talk!
Very well said Bob !!🙏👍
😂❤These victories are the best! Life goes s like that!
So, so true - I couldn't agree more. I remember once I came running to you about a kind of 'clunkiness' or a 'sticking point in the rotation' in a machine I'd worked on and cleaned and polished and oiled and mollycoddled. Despite your help I couldn't resolve it so walked away from it in frustration and cluelessness. I was utterly amazed a bit later (a few days, I think) to try it just as I was walking by and discover not a trace of a clunkiness or 'sticking at all!
I have no idea to this day how it fixed itself, maybe it was some nice fairies that occasionally drop in to undo some of the mischief pesky goblins like to unleash on us. And I don't want to discourage those fairies by pulling apart all their good work now, do I? :-)
Welcome to my world Megan!
What a great story! Oh! 🎉🎉 Genius extraordinaire!
And have you had a machine you took to demonstrate and it refused to work there. Fortunately you had another that did. And when you got them home, they BOTH worked perfectly. And still do. DANG
Different 301's! This machine was here for a while before the two toned arrived, I just hadn't had a chance to try her out. The *new* 301 is now Liz's 301. This machine is mine...
Love the rant 😊
Thank you for those fine words! We have experienced Nos 1 and 2 many times. We are part way through a No 3 with a Singer 758. We replaced a broken cam stack gear and finally got to sew, but the stitches are kind of funky and not nice. It’s been put to the side resting for the past six months. I’m afraid to take it out and try again.
Something folks need to understand; there's a lot more that goes into making a good stitch beyond timing and tension. That's going to be the subject of an upcoming video that we're still in the process of putting together.
Nobody likes the 7xx machines, I have a 750 that I love. I think it has a design flaw, probibly worked well when new but that was 1970 & 14000 miles of thread ago. Now has slack in needle bell crank, so has hesitation when it hits heavy fabric. Too much clearance in in bell crank. I still think it's neet machine.
So true! Sewing machines are like a box of chocolates, you never go what you are going to get. Ha! I took apart an “old shoe” last night, I was shocked with how easy it came apart and I kept waiting for it to turn into a nightmare but it didn’t. Maybe it will make up for that on the reassembly end??? Hey Bob, maybe your cats fixed it? Love your rants!
That's it! The cats!!!! GRACIE!!!!!!!!!
OK! OK! Enough of recapping my 201 smoking lamp debacle…which nearly killed me (us)! 🤣
OMG! How could I forget!
Thanks, Bob. Love Grace, my goodness but she's a pretty girl !🖤🤍🖤❤
She's an absolute love too! ❤❤❤
Yep!!!! Preach on 😂
Yep! For sure! Maybe it just takes a little while sometimes for oil to really soak in to that particular spot...and it's the time spent sleeping on an issue after you've walked away, or the way you hold your tongue... Anyway, minor mystery solved. I was wondering why we don't get 301's down under. So I sifted through the production years. Found that Kilbowie never made them. So we have the 306-320's instead...
Yes, 301's were made in the Anderson and Elizabeth factories. Not made at Kilbowie, but I'm not sure if they made any in Canada...
I've been working on a Sears Kenmore 148.12210 that is certainly a head scratcher. I'm definitely a rookie, but I like a challenge and well I found it. Replaced her broken zigzag gear, got all the stitches looking wonderful until...I tried the buttonhole. Now the straight stitch is a blind hem. 🤔
????? OK, that's a new one...
I've put a rage-inducing 1906 Singer 15-30 in the corner for a looong timeout.
Been there, done that...
Just out of curiosity, how did the veteran repair folks learn the trade? Tinkering, apprenticeship, trade school? Always wondered that.
A little of each, I suppose. Some started out at the manufacturers, some were hired as apprentices and perhaps got more formal training later. Training opportunities in sewing machine repair is going to be the subject of an upcoming SMQ... Stay tuned for one with a special guest.
@@BobFowlerWorkshop thank you. I'm very interested in learning the trade, just need a good teacher 😉. Looking forward to the SMQ episode.
Actually, that is a good life lesson all around.
Is your cat losing weight? Good video for all people who work on sewing machine and other products..
She's never been big, she's a 9 pounder.
How it going with this machine?
Just ducky...
what brought that on? Don't look back. You're not going that way.
Always look forward, never look back...
@@BobFowlerWorkshop I imagine that machine in front of you healed itself. I would like more of that to happen here as well. lol
@@sewterie Yes, she did! (after Jen and Marie both listened to a LOT of my ranting and complaining...)
But she was working pretty well right out of the case ?!!? 🥴
@@cindymatthews8757 Different 301a... the other one WAS great right out of the case...