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Yeah, I'm just chucking it around a bit. };-)

For those who don't yet know, a significant respository of vintage sewing machine knowledge, needlebar dot org, has become unavailable directly as a result of the death of the last man standing, Alan Quinn.

Archival snapshots of the site and its contents can still be viewed through archive dot org, but getting to specific pages of the former can be a bit tricky.

So, I decided to ferret out a few, and post links here. This may change/grow over time. Or not:

NEEDLEBAR DOT ORG MAIN PAGE:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240815130823/http://needlebar.org/main/

SINGER MACHINE DECORATION:

https://web.archive.org/web/20210423202651/http://needlebar.org/nbwiki/index.php/Singer_Machine_Decoration

NATIONAL VIBRATING SHUTTLES:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240308010935/http://needlebar.org/main/national/index1.html

NATIONAL ROTARIES:

https://web.archive.org/web/20240408114927/http://www.needlebar.org/main/national/index2.html

NATIONAL BADGES:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230108021641/http://needlebar.org/main/makers/usa/national/index.html

COLLECTORS WEEKLY SHOW & TELL POST IMAGE REFERENCES:

The basement at the NSA, as imagined in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (1981)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082971/mediaviewer/rm2391164160/

Drawing of a Singer model 66-1 needlebar (SIMANCO part number 32513) from a Price List of Parts manual:

http://hensewfiles.com/PDFs/SINGER%2066-1.pdf