Windows 11 on yet another PC.
is NUC in Kitchen I recently took down the terrestrial antenna off the roof, as it was over the skylight, and the birds were using it as a perch for their favourite toilet. So the only way I can watch …
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Singer 306k – needles
When I picked up my Singer 306k from a man who was as retired as me, he told me that he had used it to make sails (for boats), and when I started working on it I found a size …
Fashion Discs – 3D printing and 306K Sewing machine
Following from 3D Printing Singer Type A Fashion Discs below, a whole bunch of stuff has happened. Firstly I have created numerical designs of all 33 Type A Fashion Discs (1 through 32 and 37), basically a stitch position from …
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3D Printing Singer Type A Fashion Discs
Back ground I have spent a very happy few days combining my two main hobbies at the moment, namely rescuing/restoring a Singer 306K Automatic Swing-Needle Sewing Machine, and learning as much about 3D design and 3D printing as I …
Singer 306K – crossover into 3d printing!
My Creality Ender 3 V3 SE 3D printer is pretty well used, not so much for decorative knick knacks, but for useful things, repairs to objects,extending the use of thing etc. I have got it sorted out and can print …
306k Some good progress
Getting this 306k running well is going to be a slow and interesting process. The first job is finding out how it is supposed to work. I have the user manual and the service manual, which helps. However, when things …
Singer 306k update
I have not been well for a while, and I promised Lynn that I would not work on the two new machines until the winter. Well for the last two weeks I have been slowly creating a machine base for …
Lithophanes
My first Lithophane, using Corel PhotoPaint 12 to crop and modify the image, and Cura slicer to convert the image into a .STL file for printing in white PLA on my Creality Ender 3 V3 SE print. My second one …
3D printing progress
#3DBenchy My best 3dbenchy of 3. Printed in Creality PLA on my Creality Ender 3 V3 SE and the culmination of a couple of weeks refettling and retuning the printer. I bought the printer in December 2024 as a gift …
Robin – first service
Our most recent road trip up through the Wairarapa to Woodville, over the new major road from Woodville to near Ashhurst and home again, added 300 KMS to the van and took us up to 5000 kilometers and Robin’s first …