Comments on: Prototyping Riverbed Recovery Hardware. http://www.danreetz.com/blog/2008/08/13/prototyping-riverbed-recovery-hardware/ Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:23:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: danreetz http://www.danreetz.com/blog/2008/08/13/prototyping-riverbed-recovery-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-54 danreetz Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:29:27 +0000 http://www.danreetz.com/blog/?p=78#comment-54 I recently gave away a baby-blue Singer suitcase machine -- a heavy, metal affair, probably a little earlier than yours. As you mentioned, they were built sturdy, and work well with little maintenance, and were definitely not the cheap plastic shit sold today. Mine ran forever with just a little 10w30 in an eyedropper. I recently tried to help a friend sew webbing with one of these new $100 machines from a big box store. It was miserable-- you could actually smell it getting hot and you could feel the plastic gears yielding under the load. I recently gave away a baby-blue Singer suitcase machine — a heavy, metal affair, probably a little earlier than yours. As you mentioned, they were built sturdy, and work well with little maintenance, and were definitely not the cheap plastic shit sold today. Mine ran forever with just a little 10w30 in an eyedropper.

I recently tried to help a friend sew webbing with one of these new $100 machines from a big box store. It was miserable– you could actually smell it getting hot and you could feel the plastic gears yielding under the load.

]]> By: samh http://www.danreetz.com/blog/2008/08/13/prototyping-riverbed-recovery-hardware/comment-page-1/#comment-31 samh Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:16:48 +0000 http://www.danreetz.com/blog/?p=78#comment-31 Dan, Nicely done. I too am in awe of that beautiful Bernina. I use a 1968 Singer model my grandmother passed on to me for sewing backpacking gear and the sewing machine's durability is a testament to a craftsmanship that is no longer apparent in the majority of production goods built and sold today. - Sam Dan,

Nicely done. I too am in awe of that beautiful Bernina. I use a 1968 Singer model my grandmother passed on to me for sewing backpacking gear and the sewing machine’s durability is a testament to a craftsmanship that is no longer apparent in the majority of production goods built and sold today.

- Sam

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