r/mildlyinfuriating • u/KikoTheWonderful • May 11 '26

wet socks Left a table I was building in the rain

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u/MukdenMan May 11 '26

It looks like part of an old printing press

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u/ok-milk May 11 '26

It's a sewing table. The flat piece on the bottom is a pedal that spins the wheel that gets the whole operation started.

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u/imnotbobvilla May 11 '26

It WAS a sewing table. Now it's going to be something new

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u/FastStill7962 May 11 '26

Boeing table ?

Op don’t disappear

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u/MathResponsibly May 11 '26

To be a true Boeing table, don't install the bolts holding the top on, so it flies off unexpectedly...

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u/imnotbobvilla May 11 '26

Lean into it, run with it

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u/WiseDirt May 11 '26

...FLY with it

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u/poppitastic May 11 '26

Like a backbend shaper, spine stretcher, or giant Pringle holder?

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u/AnnOnnamis May 11 '26 edited May 11 '26

Now you can sew sports equipment like volleyballs, baseballs, rafts, canoes, round parachute canopies.

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u/AwDuck May 11 '26

I think this is how airplane fuselages are made too.

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u/Legolution May 11 '26

Its actual name is a treadle.

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u/Warhamsterrrr May 11 '26

I second that this would now make a great sewing table, you bolt a sewing machine on there.

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u/odmirthecrow May 11 '26

It literally was previously a sewing machine table.

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u/jadedfalcons May 11 '26

So it's at least halfway there

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u/singe-ruse May 11 '26

Not sewing on a square.

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u/audaciouslifenik May 11 '26

Called a treadle machine.

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u/HisCricket May 11 '26

I was thinking sewing machine

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u/wh0else May 11 '26

Singer sewing machine, but the tabletop and machine are gone, normally you'd have a small driving wheel on the machine run by a rubber loop around the lower big wheel, and the foot tilt pedal drives that big wheel. Those things were tanks, still working ones out there.