Clashing of Eras

Remember this?

Notice anything? Here are a few more angles:

 

When I took these pictures, I unintentionally left two hints about the REAL purpose of this table. See the spool of thread on top and the random wire hanging below? That's because this is no ordinary end table

It's a sewing table!!!! I picked it up for about $1.50 at the garage sale I spoke of last week. It is kind of the coolest thing ever. The upside is that the sewing machine still works. The downside is that the power cord has some funny business going on, which mean it doesn't really work RIGHT now.

Black cord going in, brown cord coming out. Hmmmmm.

I am no electrician nor a mechanic so I have not the faintest idea of how to fix this. And, since I am not much of a sewer either, I don't have much need for a sewing machine, broken or unbroken. The decision to get rid of the machine was an easy one. However, this sewing machine clearly has some antique value, so instead of throwing it away I decided to salvage the table itself for myself (ooh, that rhymed) and see if I can find someone interested in a it-can-be-fixed antique (Read: Offer it on Craigslist or eBay).

Before I can do that, first things first: Sewing machine, step awaaay from the table.

Removing the machine (which weighed at least 30 pounds, no joke) was pretty easy, entailing unscrewing just a handful of screws to finish the job. But, not before poking around and snapping a few pictures of the tables innards. 

 

 As I said before, detaching the sewing machine from the table was not a difficult task. However, it definitely required that I use my head the right way. What do I mean? Since all of the screws that I need to removed were located beneath, I started out working by schimmying myself into a position right below the table in order to get right at the screws. This was the view I saw.

After taking out the first two screws, it dawned on me that if I continued in this position then when the last screw came out I would be in the perfect spot to have this 30+ pound machine drop directly on my face. Being the vain person that I am, I didn't think a smashed-in face sounded like any fun, so I changed things upa bit and soon I was working from this angle.

Much better.

Just a few more screws and I had finished the job. But I didn't stop there. Seriously, this was the coolest machine and I had a lot of fun inspecting all its gadgets and props. Here are some close-ups. 

 

 

 

Any takers? :)