Also found a drawer from it in the attic, cleaned it all yesterday and found out that without functional check spring
it will not work. Also the shuttle carrier has been repaired, but it should be ok.
There's more of metal than wood on it and it's also quite big for a portable gramophone. Need to get the motor out and find the reason of speed fluctuation, I guess it needs more graphite grease in the spring case.
Here's the Singer machine inherited from aur auntie. According to serial number it was manufactured in 1913. It was stored a year or two in the shed and now it's back in the house.
Restoring a Czechoslovak vz.32 helmet (Pattern 1932) Black painted helmets (also German and Soviet) was used after the war for Civil Defence and by firemen, different leather chinstrap and liner pads was used and smaller saddle rivets. I removed it all, bought replica of the prewar ones, only...
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