Yes once cleared it is a huge site. We walked past yesterday on our quite short and very cold walk. It is already looking better where they have just cleared up general ground rubbish. Wether it will be housing as per the plan of 5 or so years ago or wether it will remain an industrial area only time will tell . Both will generate a lot of money for developers.Stanley wrote: ↑25 Jan 2022, 03:47 And what a job they have on their hands, the site is so badly contaminated that nobody would touch it for years. The sums of cost versus benefit must add up better now. I know it well. John Ingoe based REW in one of the buildings for a long time.
I shall oil Mrs Harrison and find a piece of rusty steel in the scrap box that I can dig a crankshaft out of!
I'm still trying to find a man with a ladder.
On and off during the remaining part of yesterday ie after pilates and after our walk I persevered with the machine and finally got the tension settings right. Of course I had had all tge tension screws out to clean so had no idea what the settings should be...modern machines have numerical settings, this of course has none. I had a lot of help from two or three people on the Facebook vintage sewing machine site. Anyway I did it, so today I shall put my cleaning stuff away, glue some felt pads on the bottom of the base and put it aside whilst we await a new locking mechanism for the case to arrive. It is now not possible to tell which is the topside and which is the underside of the sewing but now I must get on with the sewing of my toile for my new summer linen jacket. This evening is pilates and yoga. I am returning to the studio today as officially the online class has stopped, although it still exists for those already in the class but is not advertised in the new class programme. In the studio its a rather lively class and for those onlune it is difficult to hear what is going on, hence the change.
Its dull out there today and still cold I shall be happy to be in my sewing room today, it gets warm in there. Have a good day.