Finally managed to get fresh wood chips for my King Stropharia mushroom spawn, which I have now ‘planted’. Hope it gives us lots of mushrooms. Picked out the place where I will put my wood blewits. Also got some compost for them but the kids were going crazy by the time I had set up the KS patch, (how dare mum have a hobby) so the blewits will have to wait. Waiting is a common part of gardening.

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If we taught this in school, it would solve SO MANY problems.

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Were we wrong about conservation?

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BlueAnon Meltdown after Rockland Lawsuit over 2024 Election is Dismissed

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and finally, the machine reshelled and running like a champ.

i know absolutely nothing about sewing machines or sewing, but it brings my heart great joy to see anything mechanical brought back to working condition.

in three weeks (after xmas) it will begin its second life as my wife's primary sewing machine. she is a talented seamstress and makes her own clothes by reclaiming trashed fabric/clothing.

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after lubrication, i could test out the mechanicals.

this is the first time the machine has turned over properly in many, many years.

i love pfaff's brutal mechanical styling when the cover is off. it would shame a T-800 in the coming robopocalypse

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the same area of the bottom feed mechanism after cleaning.

90% of the machine's problems were caused by it never being cleaned even once in its drudgery existence

i began lubricating all of the working surfaces. plastics got "white lithium grease" which is the only thing i had on hand. some of the metal surfaces received some sewing machine oil. it wasn't the best choice, but it's what i had.

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did i mention cleaning? 15 of the 25 hours was just cleaning time. every single millimetre of the machine had to be delinted, washed with soapy water, and then cleaned with isopropyl alcohol. i went through about 200 q-tips.

this is part of the bottom feed mechanism (on the underside of the machine) before cleaning.

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figuring out why the lever part was grinding against the frame necessitated taking the machine's outer cover off, and understanding how it's "supposed" to work.

in the absence of a working pfaff sewing machine, and the fact that i know absolutely nothing about sewing machines, made for a lot of hmmming and guesswork

but as you can see, here's an obvious problem: the thingy that connects to the thingy is banging against the frame. why? because it's missing a $0.001 "e-clip" or "c-clip" or "snap ring" to hold it in place

the e-clip is supposed to snap over the metal shaft, in front of the white plastic, which holds the metal shaft in place.

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this lever is supposed to rise up and down smoothly as the crankshaft turns. you can see how part of it is bunged up with lint and old thread.

this turned out to be only part of the problem

look really closely at that silver metal frame in the background. notice that it's REALLY shiny in one spot? that's because the lever has been grinding against the frame and shearing off metal bits 😬

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after 25 hours of repair, cleaning and lubrication, this pfaff select 1546 sewing machine has been rescued from oblivion. here's a quick worklog

how i found it at a thrift store for $30. it looked grubby but OK on the outside, and didn't make any broken-pieces sounds when i shook it around

i plugged it in and it turned on. i tried to turn the handwheel, and it immediately seized up. it made a terrible metal-on-metal grinding sound that was a dagger in my heart.

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and finally: here's the Pfaff Select 1546 sewing machine in operation for the first time in probably many, many years after the previous owner ran it into the ground.

when i received it, the crankshaft was totally seized and the entire machine was full of 20 years of old thread and lint. 20 hours of cleaning, repairing broken parts, and lubrication got it to where it is today.

this will be an xmas present for my wife, who has been suffering for 10 years with a cruddy kenmore beginner machine.

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Aftyn Behn loses in TN-7 Election. Here's why I'm not upset and you shouldn't be, either.

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Are there good cults? Harmless conspiracy theories?

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We all know by now that plants grown in living, thriving, life-filled soil, give us living, thriving, life-filled food… but the steps to getting there in the face of a multinational industry devoted to toxic, nutritionally empty, addictive – and highly profitable – ultra-processed ‘food-like substances’ are harder to see.

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Dans une perspective #biorégion les villes, selon l'Archipel du vivant, ne doivent pas dépasser 10-15 mille âmes. D'un côté ça fait sens en mode articulation des cultures, transport, besoins naturels etc. d'un autre qu'est-ce qu'on fait de tous les urbains alors ? Et des espaces sauvages du coup ? Je pense qu'il y a moyen d'assouplir les modèles et que l'Histoire n'est pas écrite. La #permaculture a son taf a accomplir même en mégapoles, la #population mondiale peut se stabiliser ou chuter drastiquement, la #paix peut s'inventer aussi dans d'autres rapports - inédits & simples - au travail, au paysage, aux autres, au #corps

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