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Hermes – progress

By Dave Posted on May 20, 2025 Posted in Haid und Neu Gloriosa sewing machine, Sewing Machines, Uncategorized

After successfully identifying the manufacturer, model and approximate year of manufacture (Haid und Nue, Gloriosa or Liberia, 1906) and finishing a basic clean of the mechanicals and reassembling, I have decided to divide and conquer! The machine has been taken …

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Type 66 bobbins

By Dave Posted on September 23, 2024 Posted in Other Technology, Sewing Machines, Uncategorized

We have two 99k, a 185k and a 201k, and my daughter and her husband have a 66k and a 201k. What these machines have in common is that they all take the type 66 bobbins. I am lucky enough …

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Miev Minicab – Air Conditioning

By Dave Posted on July 23, 2023 Posted in Electric Vehicles, MiniCab Miev, Uncategorized No Comments

How it works and how to use it. Background There is a certain amount of mythology out there on the web about the heating and air conditioning in early electric vehicles (iMievs and Leafs), some of which is reasonable, and …

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MIEV Minicab – software for looking at state of battery etc.

By Dave Posted on July 19, 2023 Posted in Electric Vehicles, MiniCab Miev, Uncategorized 1 Comment

50 years ago I had a Mini Cooper, and it came with a speedo and fuel gauge, an ammeter and an oil pressure gauge. I added a voltmeter (this car had a dynamo – not an alternator), and I wanted …

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Halloween Posters

By Dave Posted on February 22, 2023 Posted in Uncategorized No Comments

These are examples of halloween Posters I put up on 31/10 each year. Two are supplied by NZ Police, and one I made myself. One on the letter box, and one by the front dood does the trick. My Halloween …

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Business Directories – unsolicited entries

By Dave Posted on December 1, 2017 Posted in Computer Stuff, Uncategorized No Comments

I seem to be getting a number of requests by phone and email to confirm details for an entry on yet another internet business directory. I fell for this as the start, adding myself to a couple of directories, at …

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