Yet another alternative drive-train

On Nov 23, 3:51*pm, AMuzi wrote:
Joy Beeson wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:24:00 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote:

OTOH, progress in materials/manufacture might make designs
practical that were impractical in 1910.

Or changes in riding habits. *Suspensions, springs, and shock
absorbers have appeared periodically ever since the chain drive was
added -- I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find some that
antedate the addition of pedals. *Each design went straight to the
dustbin -- until mountain biking came along. *

Betcha there's a practical use for treadle-powered bikes somewhere,
somewhen. *

I really should join Treadle On, so I can ask what the results of
experiments with pedal-powered sewing machines have been. *Somebody
must have tried it. *

I learned on a Singer treadle machine; no complaints. It's a
simple motion anyone can do.
My electric (1856) machine is smaller and easier to move around:http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfr...st/PREMIER.JPG
Treadle machines are quite hefty but a smooth action. I
think a more 'cycling' design would need more flywheel.

1856? Shouldn't that be 1956?

JS.

James wrote:
:On Nov 23, 3:51*pm, AMuzi wrote:
: Joy Beeson wrote:
: On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:24:00 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)"
: wrote:
:
: OTOH, progress in materials/manufacture might make designs
: practical that were impractical in 1910.
:
: Or changes in riding habits. *Suspensions, springs, and shock
: absorbers have appeared periodically ever since the chain drive was
: added -- I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find some that
: antedate the addition of pedals. *Each design went straight to the
: dustbin -- until mountain biking came along. *
:
: Betcha there's a practical use for treadle-powered bikes somewhere,
: somewhen. *
:
: I really should join Treadle On, so I can ask what the results of
: experiments with pedal-powered sewing machines have been. *Somebody
: must have tried it. *
:
: I learned on a Singer treadle machine; no complaints. It's a
: simple motion anyone can do.
: My electric (1856) machine is smaller and easier to move around:http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfr...st/PREMIER.JPG
: Treadle machines are quite hefty but a smooth action. I
: think a more 'cycling' design would need more flywheel.

:1856? Shouldn't that be 1956?

Probably. Premier were one of dozens of japenese companies (or at
least names...) making copies of the singer 15 and related machiens
after the war.

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sig 15

James wrote:
On Nov 23, 3:51 pm, AMuzi wrote:
Joy Beeson wrote:
On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 13:24:00 -0500, "(PeteCresswell)"
wrote:
OTOH, progress in materials/manufacture might make designs
practical that were impractical in 1910.
Or changes in riding habits. Suspensions, springs, and shock
absorbers have appeared periodically ever since the chain drive was
added -- I wouldn't be the least bit surprised to find some that
antedate the addition of pedals. Each design went straight to the
dustbin -- until mountain biking came along.
Betcha there's a practical use for treadle-powered bikes somewhere,
somewhen.
I really should join Treadle On, so I can ask what the results of
experiments with pedal-powered sewing machines have been. Somebody
must have tried it.
I learned on a Singer treadle machine; no complaints. It's a
simple motion anyone can do.
My electric (1856) machine is smaller and easier to move around:http://www.yellowjersey.org/photosfr...st/PREMIER.JPG
Treadle machines are quite hefty but a smooth action. I
think a more 'cycling' design would need more flywheel.

1856? Shouldn't that be 1956?

Typo. Yes, of course.

--
Andrew Muzi
www.yellowjersey.org/
Open every day since 1 April, 1971

On Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:51:09 -0600, AMuzi wrote:

I learned on a Singer treadle machine; no complaints. It's a
simple motion anyone can do.

Once you learn to push the front of the treadle with one foot and the
back of the treadle with the other. I never did figure that out on
my own -- some machines actually have side-by-side footprints molded
into the treadle to mislead you; why would the thought of *not*
rocking in unison ever pop into my head?

But now that someone has told me, the White Family Rotary is my
default sewing machine.

The desire to use zig-zag sends me to the electric machine less often
than the desire to not tie up one of the old machine's five bobbins
for one short seam. (I can buy bobbins that *look* like the ones
that came with the machine, but they don't quite fit.)
--
Joy Beeson
joy beeson at comcast dot net
http://roughsewing.home.comcast.net/
The above message is a Usenet post.
I don't recall having given anyone permission to use it on a Web site.

Hey, get a big manufacturer to sponser some big name to win a few big
races on it and all the good little lemmings out there will line up to
buy it. That's how the bicycling market works.

And here I'll bet y'all though it had something to do with what works
best too :-3)

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