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[–]2phresh 27 points28 points ago

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It's amazing that these things don't totally jam up more.

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[–]saskatchewan 0 points1 point ago

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With jam!

[–]d4v1d04 1 point2 points ago

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Raspberry. There's only one man... who would dare give me the raspberry!

Lone Starr!

[–]kolm 19 points20 points ago

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No shit. I watch this now for four hours straight, needle goes down, knot comes up.

[–]Orichalcon 38 points39 points ago

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Never a miscommunication.

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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Where did they find such long threads? Do they ever reload? Who is 'they'?

Think I'll just let it run while I make some breakfast.

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Holy shit it's still going!

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago

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Almost four hours to make breakfast?!

[–][deleted] 2 points3 points ago

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Only the most important meal of the day.

[–]ObamaisYoGabbaGabba 0 points1 point ago

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I pick things up, I put them down...

[–]rossisgone 6 points7 points ago

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If you notice... the string passes both sides of the cylinder in the center.

How does it spin?

[–]bleedat 1 point2 points ago

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Damn you

[–]ShiftyLookingTeen 1 point2 points ago

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I think the little hook thing is isnt a straight piece of metal. Its more curved so it starts out on one side and pulls it over to the other as it goes. Kinda like how a spring is curved so it wraps around on itself, only its a more immediate rotation of the medal.

If that makes sense

[–]lolmannz 0 points1 point ago

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It has a shaft connected to the center piece?

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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seriously, and fucking copy machines do constantly! how can both be true?!?!?!

[–]kolm 27 points28 points ago

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Can't say I really understand even now.

[–]ducttape36 3 points4 points ago

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[–]Fuco1337 0 points1 point ago

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How come those pieces don't fall apart? It seems the are separated from the rest, and the thread isn't holding it either.

[–]DC2600 0 points1 point ago

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You're looking at a cross section of the quilt, the actual quilt extends out of your monitor forwards and backwards, the 'separations' are just holes.

[–]morkskogen 7 points8 points ago

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I'm still confused, because according to this gif the rotating C-shaped piece would have to be floating in space. The thread passes on both sides and completely across it. The same is true of the lower spool. This explains nothing!

[–]GrazzHopper 0 points1 point ago

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because the image is inaccurate to some level.

[–]morkskogen 2 points3 points ago

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~~To the point of being completely useless it seems. ~~ Unless the C-shaped piece is spiral, but that leaves the lower spool still in the way. I dunno, this is giving me a headache I have to go outside for a while

[–]Vertigo666 3 points4 points ago

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[–]justonecomment 1 point2 points ago

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[–]Vertigo666 0 points1 point ago

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I saw that right after I posted.

[–]morkskogen 0 points1 point ago

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That's it! Thanks! I wish I had more votes to give you. Nice find.

[–]asdfman123 22 points23 points ago

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Sew cool.

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[–]SometimesY 14 points15 points ago

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These threads need to stop.

[–]ilikesleepingalot 13 points14 points ago

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Then why don't you just weave them alone?

[–]breakall 11 points12 points ago

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They keep bobbin up.

[–][deleted] 9 points10 points ago

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LOL. I'm in stitches over this. You guys are the fabric of this online community.

[–]TheMoldyBread 5 points6 points ago

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Ya but try knot to get too tied down to this or it will tear your life apart.

[–]ridik_ulass 6 points7 points ago

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I would suggest noone encourage this, you will just be pulling at lose threads

[–]ObamaisYoGabbaGabba 4 points5 points ago

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That was a rather poor excuse at tying the puns together.

[–]epidemicz 2 points3 points ago

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Seams like good advice.

[–]blimpoe 2 points3 points ago

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my crotchet hurts from laughing so hard.

[–]valmont121 6 points7 points ago

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Never a miscommunication.

[–]fitzroy95 4 points5 points ago

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pretty cool eh ?

Something so simple, and yet so brilliant....

[–]rikxik 2 points3 points ago

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I got so caught up in the hypnotic image.

[–]waxlrose 3 points4 points ago

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I feel like reddit is being punked by this gif. Every 3 months someone will post it. and every three months people will be amazed.

[–]AlmostCutMyHair 2 points3 points ago

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[–]saltystef 1 point2 points ago

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I've always wanted to know how these things work. Just wanted to say... MIND=BLOWN!

[–]sportsokkendrager -1 points0 points ago

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You always wanted to know but never enough to visit wikipedia, I guess.

[–]saltystef 0 points1 point ago

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It's something you wonder about when you're near a sewing machine and not near a computer, I guess.

[–][deleted] 1 point2 points ago*

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Also: Chain Stitch and another Lock Stitch.

[–]losangeles11 1 point2 points ago

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bit soon for this repost?

[–]pdowling 0 points1 point ago

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Also like the 10th repost by now...

[–]pdowling 1 point2 points ago

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Every.Single.Week.

[–]asix 3 points4 points ago

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Welcome to the internet, this gif has been around since I had a 56k Courier.

[–]mrmanman 0 points1 point ago

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ehm what is this!?

[–]MarkDTS 4 points5 points ago

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GIF of a sewing machine needle and bobbin working together.

[–]indico 0 points1 point ago

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Mesmerising.

[–]Mik-l 0 points1 point ago

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I have actually wondered about it before, thank you sir.

[–]sportsokkendrager 0 points1 point ago

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You wondered about it but couldn't find it?

[–]projektdotnet 0 points1 point ago

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This would have also fit in as a TIL post given a tiny extra bit of context, thanks for sharing!

[–]another_brick 0 points1 point ago

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One of the great mysteries of my life resolved. Thanks!

[–]sportsokkendrager 0 points1 point ago

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Because going to wikipedia is so hard.

[–]msbrooklyn 0 points1 point ago

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that blew my mind and opened it at the same time :|

[–]junitrecords 0 points1 point ago

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MIND = BLOWN

[–]Rggoalie3 0 points1 point ago

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Makes more sense after seeing the 3d model from howstuffworks. From that picture, it look like there is a magically suspended ring that loops the thread.

link

[–]mauxly 0 points1 point ago

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THank you! I'd been wondering for...well...forever.

[–]CaptainCaspian 0 points1 point ago

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Wow, I could nearly fap to that.

[–]chronlord 0 points1 point ago

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Solved! I can now die a happy man.

[–]Youmati 0 points1 point ago

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TIL that understanding how it works still isn't helping me get the tension right.

[–]n1nj4_v5_p1r4t3 0 points1 point ago

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i stare and stare and stare and have used one forever, and still dont get it lol

[–]harry_nash 0 points1 point ago

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All I can say is wow, thanks. I always wondered about this and thought it was magic.

[–]morseman 0 points1 point ago

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OMG 25 years of darkness!!!!!!!

[–]chka 0 points1 point ago

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So where's the unicorn?

[–]zuma93 0 points1 point ago

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Not sure I get it.

The lines of string pass completely in front of and behind the middle circle, so what is it mounted to?

[–]nicknoble 0 points1 point ago

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So I think it's pretty funny how this .gif was posted on reddit only a few weeks ago, except that it was posted on a website with a handful of other "how it works" type .gif's

So not only is this a repost, but its an incomplete repost. Fuck this sub-reddit. I'm unsubscribing.

[–]rugabug 0 points1 point ago

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The gif resurfaces every few weeks, year after year.

[–]hacksoncode 0 points1 point ago

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People keep asking "how can this possibly be how it works? The bobbin would have to basically be floating free in space.". Well, indeed, that's basically exactly how it works. Take a look at a bobbin sitting inside a bobbin case. It's just floating around in there.

The reason it stays in is, well, where would it go? It's entirely surrounded by mechanism on all sides. It's just "floating" in there.

Imagine you were holding the bobbin case from the opposite side from where you insert the bobbin (which is exactly how the machine holds it). Imagine you took a loop of thread and squeezed it into the space between the case and the bobbin, and pulled it out from the other side. That's exactly what happens (see that groove in the case? That's where the thread goes in.).

The thread does, indeed, go entirely around the bobbin, which is only supported by being loosely caged in on all sides. What this animation doesn't show, is the groove in the bobbin case that guides it around the bobbin.

[–]actionbob 0 points1 point ago

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life's biggest mysteries finally solved!

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point ago

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Even as a 5 year old kid, I had an unsettling fear that what the family's sewing machine was doing was somehow topologically impossible.

[–]thepokeduck 0 points1 point ago

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[–]Formaldehyd3 0 points1 point ago

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You just blew my mind. That shit is FUCKING FASCINATING.

[–]fuckdapopo 0 points1 point ago

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Clear as mud

[–]billyboyblue -1 points0 points ago

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[–]Dolan33 -1 points0 points ago

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Ah, so that's how babies are made.

[–]ohh__shiiit -1 points0 points ago

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Ive always wondered how it works... thanks for the post!

[–]molly-cule -2 points-1 points ago

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MIND BLOWN