2021 POTD Thread Archive

[f350ca]

Not overkill, it's the difference between a Cadillac and a Lada.

Greg

 

[extropic]

What Greg said !!!

Very nice.

 

[johnlllejeune]

Beautiful work.

 

[johnlllejeune]

I seen bits and pieces about it on YouTube. What I did is simple, put the metal in the toaster oven to heat it up as hot as it gets witch is 450 degrees. Let the material get hot and will change color a bit. I left the first blocks in about an hour and half. Then I dropped them in oil to let them cool. In fact it was some old tractor trans. / hyd oil. The parts have a gold burnished color.

Hopefully that answers your question


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I was wondering if something like that would work. I'm glad you answered my question.

 

[silence dogood]

Yup, serious case of overkill, I know. And I know you can buy plastic ones from the hardware store that do pretty much the same thing. But, well, once you hatch an idea you just have to see it through…..

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My wife sews professionally, what make and model is that sewing machine? That is not overkill, it matches the machine. My wife's oldest sewing machine is Pfaff 130, maybe 70 to 80 years old. Built like a Tiger tank and sews like a fine tuned Porsche.

 

[sycle1]

Looks classy, not Overkill at all.

 

[pontiac428]

My wife's oldest sewing machine is Pfaff 130, maybe 70 to 80 years old. Built like a Tiger tank and sews like a fine tuned Porsche.

I used to live near the old Pfaff factory in Kaiserslautern. Big, beautiful, and brick. I have no idea what their plans are for preserving it, but it would be a shame not to. Alas, the tank factories are all gone... only footprints, like the SKF, FAG, and Sachs bearing factories in Schweinfurt (lived there too). B-17s and B-24s took care of those.

 

[silence dogood]

Pontiac428, I was station in Berlin in 1970 to71. U.S. army had us live in the old SS barracks and they were actually quite nice. Last that I checked, they were torn down.

 

[francist]

what make and model is that sewing machine?

Ah, a man of discerning tastes…. It’s a Necchi BU Mira from the mid 1950’s, my latest in a string. It stitches beautifully. A Pfaff 30 or perhaps 130 is on my hit list if one shows up close by though. I already have a free arm Pfaff 332 but I’ve heard stories about the quality of the straight stitchers so I’m keeping one eye peeled.

Is your wife into garment making or more utilitarian product? My one grandmother on my mother’s side apprenticed as a seamstress in Europe in the 1920’s and worked at dressmaking in one form or another for 70 years, and my mom for almost as long although she didn’t do it for a living. All five of my sisters sew as well, so I guess I come by the interest honestly. I’m more of a hack than anything though

-frank

 

[hman]

Wow - it's even guaranteed by Good Housekeeping!