Saturday, January 03, 2026

I Just Remembered I Still Have a Blog

 Wow.  forty-six views last month.  

I have discovered ChatGBT after asking for help with my Japanese Vintage Sewing machine.  Err.  Don't do that.  While it knows some things, it started making up things as I went along.  Very funny, but not.  I had pulled out the top tension, took it apart, and somehow knocked the pieces over.  I can't find a picture of the machine from a Google search.  So, ask AI right?

It knew about Japanese Vintage machines.  Singer and other companies sent their specifications over to Japan after WWII.  Most of the machines were just rebadged as something else.  So there would be 15 machines that all looked the same with different badges, like New Home, White, and others.

As I explain the tension unit to AI, it starts asking basic questions about the assembly none of which show up in what mine looks like.  This is the original upper tension unit.


I get this far into the assembly:





After it fell on the ground when I accidentally knocked it all over:  How do I put this back together?


Then it keeps "updating" the order of the parts as I say that I don't have that part.

I don't have a C washer.  Freaks out AI.  It starts "thinking again" and then it asks me about the tension


So now nothing in this tension unit is making sense.  AI keeps readjusting what I have but not really making it easier.  I still haven't been able to put the top tension together.  After going through more "information", I give up and stuff everything back together.  Failure on my part and AI.  The free version wasn't helping either.

If you know how to fix a Mark II vintage Japanese machine, let me know.


 




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