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Machine Talk => Machine Accessories => Topic started by: Roger on January 03, 2018, 15:08:25 PM

Title: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Roger on January 03, 2018, 15:08:25 PM
Oh my days! I’m pretty close to ‘Squeeing!’ The Pink Atomic arrived and it is so much better than I had hoped. It’s largely immaculate it’s solidly built and the box is huge! And completely outrageous!

Pics to follow!
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: SkoutSews on January 03, 2018, 15:13:11 PM
Looking forward to seeing them!
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Maximum on January 03, 2018, 15:21:02 PM
How could you be such a tease! Really excited post and then, pics to follow   :(. What a way to start the new year.
Joking apart I can't wait to see what you have found so please get the photos flowing.
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: BrendaP on January 03, 2018, 15:42:28 PM
Come on, get the camera out....
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Madame Cholet on January 03, 2018, 16:07:17 PM
So happy to hear that it has arrived safe and sound!
(...Does this mean you have two eyelet cams now??!  :loveit:)
Looking forward to seeing the pictures  :P
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Iminei on January 03, 2018, 16:39:55 PM
Squeeing ??? !!!  :S

I've had to google Pink Atomic now .....

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Pink+Atomic&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB744GB744&oq=Pink+Atomic&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61l3&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 (https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=Pink+Atomic&rlz=1C1CHBF_en-GBGB744GB744&oq=Pink+Atomic&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i61l3&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8)

and it appears Roger that you might be about to dye your hair pink!!!!  :o
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Maximum on January 03, 2018, 17:42:06 PM
Come on Roger - now look what you've made Imi do ;). Being at work all day is not really a valid excuse.
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Bodgeitandscarper on January 03, 2018, 18:31:29 PM
This thread is useless without pics!!!!!
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Roger on January 03, 2018, 19:38:57 PM
Oh! Sorry! I had no idea that this thread would cause excitement! Let alone Imi’s awesome googling...

I’m taken aback by the size of it, and the pink and gold combo! It’s a fab pairing with the 500a!

Sadly it doesn’t have a second eyelet cam it does have an impressive range of them and no duplicates cams.
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: SkoutSews on January 03, 2018, 19:45:31 PM
Wow! No wonder you're pleased. It's the ideal accessory for the Rocketeer. Much bigger than it looks in ebay photo isolation too.
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Madame Cholet on January 03, 2018, 19:51:45 PM
Wonderful!  :loveit: :loveit: :loveit:
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Bodgeitandscarper on January 03, 2018, 21:03:51 PM
That looks great  0_0  <3
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Maximum on January 03, 2018, 21:07:07 PM
Of course it caused excitement! Your post was squealing and we are a very nosey lot.
It really is very pink  :D. Thank you for the pics now we need to know if it functions or is just pretty and very pink!!!
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Roger on January 03, 2018, 21:16:10 PM
It’s a real style piece! I was expecting it to be no bigger than a griest +box or a large compact but it really is big, nearly as long as the full sized machine.

The gold and beige device is cool too and again a lovely match. The little extra cam box is nice too and has all the correct cams. And is has plenty of my favourite keyhole cams too :)

Thanks for being enthusiastic too!

I’ll have to test it but tonight is hand sewing night again.,,
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: BrendaP on January 03, 2018, 21:35:05 PM
That PINK looks fabulous.
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Iminei on January 04, 2018, 08:20:55 AM
What the **** !!??!!??!!

This is still a sewing forum isn't it ?????

What Fabulous Fings have you got there????

Not only the pink thingymijiggy (obviously chosen to go with your new 'do'!) but the sleek 'Thunderbirds are Go' styled pigjoggerry behind it !!!

When was this Friday afternoon in the spacetimecontinuum when a sewing machine draftsman went nuts and got his sons doodles through onto the production line???

Awesome!!!!!
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Sewbee on January 04, 2018, 08:52:17 AM
Oh my! What a fabulous looking machine!!

I read through all the posts and thought, heavens, this must be hair dye!!!!
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Roger on January 04, 2018, 11:15:54 AM
Thank you Imi, that was brilliant!

The thingy is a sewing machine, it’s a 1960s USA Singer, called the 500a, it was part of Singers effort to get in on the space race/atomic styling. It’s actually a 401 in crazy styling.

I have no idea what it’s doing in the UK... I’ve never seen another here, it came in a cabinet, with all the accessories and manual and a giant current converter!

Arrow spotted it on Gumtree, and it made me love vintage machines.

Here’s another pic with its accessory case.

Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Iminei on January 04, 2018, 11:38:21 AM
Its really crazy, like a kid drew a rocket that got made into a sewing machine ... even the controls are shaped like rockets!
and the pink thing (Is it really called an Atomic) is a flying saucer!!!

Wild man, wild!
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Roger on January 04, 2018, 11:50:21 AM
That’s why it’s called the rocketeer, that and the button looks a lot like the hero’s helmet from the Rocketeer film.

The pink button holer is usually either called the Atomic or Jetsons buttonholer ( because it’s atomic styled, or looks like the saucer out of the Jetsons) and is available in either fuschia (slant shank) or evergreen (straight shank)

The whole style is just exuberant and has the same flair as the giant finned Cadillacs.

Also they’re the one of the last mostly metal machines that Singer made and have a great reputation as being a good/great machine, it’s my favourite and does most of my sewing and gets doted on!
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: supergran on January 04, 2018, 20:54:31 PM
Before I enlarged the picture, I wondered why there was a pink toilet seat in front of a sewing machine. Sorry.  :|
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Vegegrow on January 04, 2018, 21:05:13 PM
Its really rather lovely .. well deserving of a display space  :loveit:
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Roger on January 04, 2018, 22:49:36 PM
Thanks Gran and Vege, it isn’t quite what you expect.

I’ve just given it a clean and an oil, and it’s smooth fluff free and the mechanism is turning over nicely! I haven’t made a button hole with it yet. But it should be smooth and painless :)
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: arrow on January 07, 2018, 12:54:05 PM
The plastic case goes very well withe 400series, and even more so the 500. I have the older version with the square (dark) green box, it was made from the late 40s and well into the 50s. It's all metal, black but the round turn button on top is white plastic. I'm not sure when the atomic jetson box arrived? I always thought these were nearly identical under the cover, mostly because they take the same cams and the same stitch length lever on the side.

If I have understood this correctly the UK Singer factory made the exact same buttonholer, but it came in a cardboard box. The plastic has helt up very well on these. I store mine on a bookshelf, I wonder if it should have it in a bag or cover or something?

I have only seen the eyelet cam in various greist buttonholers for other brands. I guess it was bought separately or with a type of cam set, or it was a way to make an exlusive out of some buttonholer sets?
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Surest1tch on January 07, 2018, 21:11:12 PM
How fab, well done Roger
Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: Roger on January 07, 2018, 22:01:28 PM
Thanks SureStitch!

Arrow: these ones are very plastic well the case is anyway-  the manual does mention a eyelet cam, but I dont see to have one with this device, but i definitely have plenty of others.

I think I might try to find a nice little box for this personally I dont want that outrageous fuschia fading or going brittle!

Title: Re: The Pink Atomic!
Post by: BrendaP on January 07, 2018, 22:51:10 PM
The pink case would look lovely on display in my new pink study (where's the jealous button?!)