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Repair Shop's Wilcox and Gibbs machine brought back to life

Elnnina

Repair Shop's Wilcox and Gibbs machine brought back to life
« on: September 24, 2020, 14:54:19 PM »
I only managed to catch up with this programme last night and they showed Dominic dealing with the cutest little Wilcox and Gibbs machine - even my husband was amazed - and wondered whether I would like one - now that is unusual for him.  Sadly though these little beauties fetch an eye watering price when they are available.  I must say I was rather taken aback when Dominic actually immersed parts of the machine in a bowl of soapy water - how on earth did he then ensure that these parts were totally dry inside.  Once clean and re assembled the machine did sew although it was only a chain stitch and from what we could see this worked, but I know that chain stitch can easily miss a stitch and thus unravel so very quickly.

For those interested in this programme but didn't see it, it was shown on BBC1  Tuesday 15th September so probably availabe on i-player.