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@Alf0nse
I’m not great at building stuff or doing DIY
I do it, it’s ok but I don’t get inspired by projects to improve my house etc.
But if something breaks, I will try to fix it.
At the weekend I was at my mother in-laws
She has an ancient Brother industrial sewing machine. I have known her for nearly 30 years and it’s never worked. It’s just a giant 100kg clothes rack.
She was saying that she’s bored and wants to sew again. So with a crappy corner shop screwdriver I got to it.
Nothing crazy I just took it apart, unraveled miles of thread cleaned the moving parts, fitted a belt and then reassembled it.
Somehow there were cosmetics from the 80s jammed inside it as well as a dried chilli from at least a decade ago.
It’s running like a beast now
See some of the junk extracted
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