A milestone on my Prostate Cancer journey.
In February 2024 I had a blood test that gave a PSA result of 104, and over a few weeks did more blood tests, rectal examinations, biopsies, MRIs and other high tech scans, from which we learnt that I had …
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Final Fashion Disc pattern for Singer 306 confirmed
It’s been a labour of love for the last few weeks, redesigning all the Singer Type A Fashion Discs from varying quality stitch samples, pictures from manuals and from the pattern printed on the disc in some cases. One disc …
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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 …
Hermes – progress
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 …
Type 66 bobbins
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 …
Miev Minicab – Air Conditioning
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 …
MIEV Minicab – software for looking at state of battery etc.
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
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 …
Business Directories – unsolicited entries
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 …