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The saga continues...
Spent the better part of last week tidying the shed best I could, finding a tall worktop table for the Graphtec, rearranging, etc. After a few days, among other things, I had the Singer 29K58 finally fitted with the servo motor, having drilled out the cast iron to mount the motor and controller, and angle grinding its metal base to accommodate wiring. Plus the Sewmaq compound feed and Pfaff both tidied-off and accessible.
Made that big progress on some semblance of order in the shed and then went into the house to make sure the trip-switch was working. Pressed the ‘test’ button and got a massive spark fly at me with a loud pop and the house was pitch black. Someone has left batteries charging in the other shed, so the circuit was under load when I’d pressed test. That, and all the rain recently any tiny potential for a short (rat-chewed cable or the like) was increased dramatically.
A day or two later with a replaced 30mA box, and coaxing of the wires to fit, thought I’d be back in business. At least I could check if the wiring was safe. Even the light switch in the shed trips the new box, so I have a real short somewhere. Engineer friend says to start by looking on PE/N since it’s happening when load is turned on. Called an electrician and he’s not free for over a week. Sigh.
Very busy this week with helping family, so no time to check wiring. When riding today to check for materials, found out I’d missed a curtain sider by a day - the guy had scrapped the whole truck by accident instead of keeping the sider for me. Then later popped the mountain bike against a fence for 5 minutes and came out to it laying on the piss with a broken rear mech. Somehow the bolt sheared clean off when it hit the ground. Crazy.
Walking home wasn’t fun.
I’ll take progress in any form, though. So once home I tried the overlocker for the first time in many months. To get it stitching right, I swapped out the needles and double checked the timing, and cheated with Nylbond on the needle threads.
Got a steady and consistent overlocked seam good enough to sort out tailoring a couple jackets, so now at least one more retro cycling jacket has been taken in to a better fit.
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