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    @Tomo Thank you! I've managed to sorce some thread now, some Z415/T400/7 (Old Tkt size / Tex size / Metric size) because I've got #250 331 LR needles I mentioned. I'm thinking I may try to track down some lighter needles and thread at some point though, the current ones are unbelievably heavy! Anyway, yes so I understand, but I imagine the linen thread would be less consistant, and of course less resiliant, even though I do like the idea of using the traditional thing and a natural product.

    Thanks again.

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    Well I must confess I actually never got around to finding someone to service them and get them set up, they're still sitting in my family's lock-up, to my great shame and frustration haha! But I will at some point, I keep telling myself.

    Oh that's great, thank you! I did have a look at what I think was there website but I couldn't seem to see them, but I've sent them an enquiry. I've found a seller on trademe who apparently has #250 size though, so I may go with some of those although they're $49 a pack. Is that about normal?

    Also, I wanted to ask you, what kind of thread do you use in your machine?

    Yeah, sure I'll attach one. As you can see I'm just using a ball of cotton string at the moment, which obviously isn't really ideal. Oh actually, it occurs to me I might be able to use my machine and photos from around the place as references to clean up those plates if I ever get around to it.

    Pearson No6 harness machine

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    Thanks so much for sharing this! I just purchased what I believe is a Pearson No. 6 and I've been searching for a manual. The basic workings of them seems fairly straight forward, but I'm glad to have some information on finer adjustments and so on. It is a shame that the plates aren't a bit clearer, but still much better than nothing. I may have a go at cleaning one up at some point, but I can't imagine it will be easy since it's difficult to distinguish the parts from one another in the scan. We'll see.

    As a side note, I don't suppose you know of a source in New Zealand of needles for these machines do you?

    Anyway, thank you again!

    p.s. I think I may have bought two pillar bed machines from you years ago!

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