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ghost-toe · 1 year ago

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rescued this baby from the curb today 🥰😊 yet another restoration project!

here she was before i cleaned up the lacquer. it rained last night and seeped into the old lacquer. i'll see if there's anything more i can do to restore that damage, but i think some of it is straight-up the paint running off and exposing the metal

#🫀#from basic research i think shes 1900s-1910s #not quite in working order-- someone added a motor at some point and got rid of the treadle ): and shes missing a belt anyway #havent cracked her open to look yet either #but by rotating things by hand #the needle and bobbin and feed dogs all seem to move correctly!#got a little bit of damage from the rain but i fixed it up as well as i could. will see what more i can do #im going to see abt buying a kit to convert it to hand crank soon #then in a few years when i have more space maybe ill get a treadle table to install her on #i really do have a kind of task i enjoy huh #come home from an 8+ hour shift at the doing-fiddly-detailed-mechanical-work factory #to do more fiddly detailed mechanical work #ah well. the rot consumes us all

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