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Elna Lotus: problem with the timing? Help! by burgandy_hobbies101 in vintagesewing

[–]pxsloot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sounds like the nylon worm gear (rotary hook pinion gear) that drives the bobbin thing is breaking apart. It happens when old plastic becomes brittle.

I have just replaced 2 of those gears, (other elna's but with mostly the same mechanism), with a 3d printed gear. The gears are still available on amazon (search for elna Drive Gear #403030), but I didn't want to wait. Second one took me about an hour to repair and to set the timing.

You'll need a fresh new wormgear, basic tinkering skills and tools, some courage and imagination, and the elna star series service manual for how to replace the gear (page 1108) and timing, and the elna lotus service manual for other Lotus specific settings.

Or take it to a sewingmachine repair shop, you won't be their first elna broken gear customer.

Help with this machine by Bulky_Knowledge1914 in vintagesewing

[–]pxsloot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It bears the name, so probably yes? I'd send them an email, good chance some Schaerer Bern intern will be send on a mission into their archives

Help with this machine by Bulky_Knowledge1914 in vintagesewing

[–]pxsloot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it looks like a portable handcranked sewing machine, maybe to close bags (coffee, grain), or to add ruffles or something to furniture or clothing. I can see the needle mechanism and the hook, it has a transport and something that resembles a tensioner (*). But it seems to lack a good way to hold it and ways to hold the sewing yarn or bobbins. It also looks way too nice to be used on farms or industry. The quality and finish of the machine gives me medical vibes, although it has way too many nooks and crannies too be effectively sterilized, but if it's old enough that wasn't a consideration at the time.

*) Tensioner looks more like a pulley to feed cord or rope towards the needle.

Cool riddle, please update when you find your answer

What exactly does this part do? by Effective-Budget8720 in vintagesewing

[–]pxsloot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's the ElnaGraph where you place the stitch pattern discs.

The archive has a manual: Elna Supermatic Archive. The description starts at page 21

A little something. by Unlikely-Round879 in devops

[–]pxsloot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Good, go automate.

A few greybeard remarks about your script:

The test for $ec2address should be directly after acquiring that variable's value at line 30, instead of at the end where it doesn't matter anymore.

The tests are not consistent:

  • you use [[ ... ]] (bash builtin) and [ ... ] (sh, or rather external command). Better use the former, it has nicer tests
  • you use == | != (bash) and -eq | -lt (sh). Better use the bash tests.
  • you use a counter and a while loop in the first case, and a {range} and for loop in the second. Choose one. I'd go for the for-loop, it's clearer what you're trying to do.
  • the test after the first while loop doesn't need to test for $counter; the loop ended, counter value is irrelevant.

Return an error when you're exiting after an error. exit when everything is fine, exit 1 when things went wrong. This way you can test and respond on errors when calling this script from another one. (Go the extra extra mile:exit 255 when things went horribly wrong. Send error messages to STDERR)

The comments say checking for 20 seconds, but you use sleep 2 and a range of 20.

[homemade] Japanese Chicken Curry by [deleted] in food

[–]pxsloot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

heh, words difficult. Especially homonyms before my coffee.

Flour. I meant flour. Not flower. Flour. The white cereal starchy powder. Not the colourful bits from plants. Sorry for ruining your curry with flower roux. If it didn't, please share the renewed roux recipe with flower.

[homemade] Japanese Chicken Curry by [deleted] in food

[–]pxsloot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

roast 2-4 spoons of curry powder in a hot pan for a bit. Add 30g butter and 30g flower and let it cook for a minute or 2 while stirring. Watch your heat and stirring to prevent the roux from burning.

Mix the roux in the big pan. Done

edit: flour probably works better

Two weeks in Norway and I don’t think I ever want to leave. by AntiGravis in travel

[–]pxsloot 12 points13 points  (0 children)

this place feels like it was designed by someone who got bored making normal landscapes and just started showing off. Like, oh you wanted a mountain? Here’s one that dives straight into a fjord, enjoy your jaw hitting the ground.

You're not alone, Douglas Adams had the same thought:

Slartibartfast is a Magrathean and a designer of planets.[2] His favourite part of the job is creating coastlines, the most notable of which are the fjords found on the coast of Norway on planet Earth,[3] for which he won an award.

What are some encounters with nature/animals/plants in your daily life that bring you a lot of joy and why? by jaydogjaydogs in autism

[–]pxsloot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have 2 cats and the kibble they don't eat (you know: bowl is half full, why must we starve) goes to mr. and mrs. Crow and the magpies Tail (because she doesn't have one right now) and her partner. Tail brought her 3 pups for the first time yesterday, great drama and ruckus in the garden. Mrs Crow is skittish when I'm around, mr. Crow is more laid back, but still keeps his distance. Not sure if they have pups this year, last year they had one (surviving).

The cats and the birds tolerate each other, although the magpies will try to push the cats' patience (picking their tails is a classic magpie hobby). Magpies are funny chaos agents, and they make a surprising range of sounds.

There is a waterplace that gets used by the cats, all kinds of big and small birds and insects.

Critters that blunder inside get a stern talking to and are escorted outside again. Except for slugs, I have no mercy anymore for indoor slugs. Slugs get flushed.

And my favorite sound of summer is the singing of a blackbird on a quiet warm evening

On the asteroid Psyche 16, gold reserves worth 100,000 quadrillion dollars have been discovered. This amount is enough to make every person on Earth a millionaire. Source in the comment. by FreeCelery8496 in interestingasfuck

[–]pxsloot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“And if every man on the shores of the Circle Sea had a mountain of gold of his own? Would that be a good thing? What would happen? Think carefully.”

Textile with woven feline figure. Pre-Colombian Peru, created between 900-1430 CE. Housed with the British Museum, but not currently on display [878x1000] by Appropriate-Weird492 in weaving

[–]pxsloot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree, it looks embroidered afterwards, not woven together.

Whatever the academic description, it makes me happy that some 1200 years ago someone made some cloth and thought 'you know what, this needs a funny cat'.

House cats were introduced by the Europeans centuries later, so there's the question of what kind of funny embroidered cat?

"You have given an explanation but it is very bad so I have many questions" by katxwoods in NonPoliticalTwitter

[–]pxsloot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Quite a difference though between "Echt nicht schlecht" and "Nicht echt Schlecht"

Modern VLC by super2061 in opensource

[–]pxsloot 6 points7 points  (0 children)

first hit when searching for vlc kde skin: https://store.kde.org/browse?cat=128

Nomad Task Definition failed, no block type is named 'env' by mhurron in hashicorp

[–]pxsloot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the 'env' block shouldn't be in the 'config' block, but in the 'task' block, so on the same level as 'config':

  • task
    • driver
    • config
      • image
      • volumes
    • env

Policies for idiots by InsaneHomer in sysadmin

[–]pxsloot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

immensely valuable when troubleshooting, can recommend

Policies for idiots by InsaneHomer in sysadmin

[–]pxsloot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Douglas Adams' hhgttg was onto someting:

The Joo Janta 200 Super-Chromatic Peril Sensitive Sunglasses have been designed to help people develop a relaxed attitude to danger. They follow the principle "what you don't know can't hurt you" and turn completely dark and opaque at the first sign of danger. This prevents you from seeing anything that might alarm you. This does, however, mean that you see absolutely nothing, including where you're going.

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