D9
Hello from South Jersey! A very worn D9 is moving in with me. I'm sure I'll have lots of questions once I get her home. What should I know about this Wheeler and Wilson model? Are parts easy to find?
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Kathy Liv
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#3682
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Wheeler & Wilson No. 1 Treadle Top
Hi, moving along with restoration of the treadle table for my No.1 and have hit a slight problem. Started this project several years back and had to put it on hold till now - during that time I
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Ian MacGillicuddy
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#3681
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Re: New to me no 8
Hi Emily; Very nice fiend, particularly at that price. There are different opinions on a substitute needle for the #8. Personally I use a DBx1 in mine. The original needle is a 6N1 or 126x1. These
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Miller Fulks
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#3680
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New to me no 8
Hi! I will be uploading pictures to Flickr soon but I just got a Wheeler &Wilson no. 8 that is dated 1880. I got it for 20 dollars, it's in good condition with table, 3 bobbins and attachments. What
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Emily Hitchner
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#3679
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Re: group storage limit has been reached
sgheeter via groups.io wrote: I'd hate to ask everyone to do that. It's really Miller's call what to do, I think. There's no question we could raise the money quickly -- we did it on the W&G list in
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Paul Fox
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#3678
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Re: group storage limit has been reached
I am sure my photos did not help...? Should I remove, resize and repost them? Also very willing to send funds to help site expand! Steve
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sgheeter@...
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#3677
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Re: Hello! - Just Joined
#introduction
Thank you for that little history lesson, Miller! I really appreciate it. It answered a lot of questions and brought up some new ones! I'm guessing mine is a later 9W7 (flat bobbin) based on my serial
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Stephanie S
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#3676
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Re: group storage limit has been reached
I own this site and intend to maintain it: http://www.brotherwilliam.com/ It USED to be about the character I portrayed at renaissance fairs. Since I no longer do that, I could add
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RileyG
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#3675
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Re: group storage limit has been reached
If there is a Paypal address I will contribute 5 dollars.? I have made similar offer to the Kenmore group that migrated to io as well as an offer to ElnaHeirlooms group but nobody asked as of yet for
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Michael Kendall
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#3674
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Re: group storage limit has been reached
Sign me up. Ken Jansen
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Ken Jansen
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#3673
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Re: group storage limit has been reached
I'll be happy to kick in some towards the fee. Cheryl in Illinois -- http://cherylsteapots2quilting.blogspot.com/
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Cheryl
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#3672
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Re: group storage limit has been reached
miller wrote: I played with doing download/upload on a couple of pictures of Dean's yesterday. It requires several steps, but it's not hard. I'll write it up, to save time for you or anyone else who
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Paul Fox
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#3671
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Re: group storage limit has been reached
Hi Paul; We currently have 380 members. Obviously all are not real active, for if each posted once a week we would have about 54 posts a day. To raise the $220.00 needed for an upgrade would only
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Miller Fulks
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#3670
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group storage limit has been reached
I've changed the Subject on this thread to better reflect what we're talking about. Summary: - We've exhausted our storage space on groups.io. We're allowed 1GB (without paying for more), and we've
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Paul Fox
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#3669
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Re: #9 Manual
miller wrote: Thanks for doing that. It won't be retroactive. This morning I joined the groups.io maintainers forum to try and find out more -- I should know more soon. Okey Doke! paul
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Paul Fox
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#3668
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Re: #9 Manual
Hi Paul; My problem is I do not have a lot of computer savvy. I did go under administrator & make that change to the photo size, do you know if this will be retroactive or not. When Dean & I set up
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Miller Fulks
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Re: #9 Manual
I had another thought about storage: we currently allow photos of any size to be uploaded. The groups.io software will do on-the-fly resizing of uploads to any size we wish. I propose that we change
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Paul Fox
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Re: #9 Manual
Miller, Ah-ha.? I had forgotten about the data limit for the manual. Jon
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Jon Helig
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Re: Hello! - Just Joined
#introduction
Hi & Welcome Stephanie; The Singer 9W is a great machine, based on the W&W D-9. From 1905 until around 1909 the 9W1 still had W&W decals & fit W&W cabinets & cases. Around 1909 the 9W7 was begun with
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Miller Fulks
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Hello! - Just Joined
#introduction
Hello All! My husband and I bought an old Singer treadle table about 15 years ago, promptly took the "pretty but non-motorized" machine head out and put an Singer 66 in it (putting the treadle head in
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Stephanie S
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