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From: <sneetch@ufl.edu>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Box of Metal Tabs(please include my name and email)
Date: Monday, February 11, 2002 11:44 AM
Looks like a set of wire strippers, to strip the coating on different gages of
wire.
A good guess, and one that is in line with the sorts of things I was thinking about when I took this picture. Sadly, though, it is wrong. - mgr
From: "T Evans" <tevans@cvalley.net>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Box of Metal Tabs(please include my name and email)
Date: Sunday, January 27, 2002 10:51 AM
box of sewing attachments to an old sewing machine
Yes!
From: "Al Anganes" <al1@netway.com>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Box of Metal Tabs(please include my name and email)
Date: Sunday, January 27, 2002 9:13 AM
Those are sewing machine attachments. They are "feet" that go on the end of
the machine near the needle.
The 4 on the bottom are used to fold over the edge of a piece of fabric as
it is fed into the needle, in order to
make a neat finished edge. The 4 different sizes give different amounts of
overlap. I don't remember
what the othere two are for.
Thanks for the details! - mgr
From: "Steve Miller" <nothere@nothere.net>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Box of Metal Tabs(please include my name and email)
Date: Wednesday, November 07, 2001 7:45 AM
Attachments for sewing machine platen (?) -- anyway, the little foot
thing (surrounding the needle) that you drop down on the material being
worked.
From: "Brown, E. M. (E52)" <brown_em@nns.com>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Box of Metal Tabs(please include my name and email)
Date: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:46 AM
these are feet for a sewing machine. The ones at the bottom allow you to
make a wide flat strip of fabric into a rolled strip like a cord, the one
second from the top is for plain stiching, the top one has something to do
with gathering, but I never firgured mine out!!! Mine came with a treadle
machine that had a bobbin winder Just Like the one you pictured on your site
previously!!
Lee Brown
home-826-2507- leebrown99@cavtel.net
God Bless America
From: "Paulette" <ladyp47@home.com>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Box of Metal Tabs(please include my name and email)
Date: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 8:37 AM
attachments for a sewing machine
Paulette
From: "Bill Bailer" <wbailer@eznet.net>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Box of Metal Tabs(please include my name and email)
Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 5:43 PM
They are sewing machine feet. Most of the feet, the four at the bottom
of the picture, being for making hems of various widths. The edges of
two pieces of cloth are guided into the "foot," which guides the two
layers of cloth into two folds just before the cloth reaches the needle,
the cut edges of the cloth resultantly being unexposed, inside the
folds. The next foot upward is just for the passage of the needle, with
no bias as to direction of feed (a normal foot has a slot facing
frontward instead of a hole). With this foot, the feed rate is set to
zero, and down pressure set slack, and the fabric is moved by hand in
any direction to do "freehand" stitching, such as writing your name.
The result resembles embroidery, and the foot is sometimes called an
"embroidery foot." The "foot" at the top of the picture -- I don't
know -- maybe it is for zippers?
Bill Bailer
bill2@eznet.net
From: "Wm.J.Townsend" <racesale@gte.net>
To: <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Box of Metal Tabs(please include my name and email)
Date: Tuesday, August 28, 2001 1:41 AM
Sewing machine feet for seams and hems and such.
From: "Huggy Bear" <huggy-bear@home.com>
To: "Mike Russell" <mgr@zocalo.net>
Subject: Box of Metal Tabs(please include my name and email)
Date: Sunday, August 26, 2001 4:10 AM
My guess on these is that they're sewing machine attachments. I couldn't
tell you how they're used or what kind of machine they're for, but they look
a lot like some that we had for our machine, back when I was a kid.
Bill Dobiesz
huggy-bear@home.com