Archives - sprung Tatsy

[Kersti]

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Posted by abradylds
on Sun Feb 23, 2003

Ok Lynn. I haven't fixed a Tatsy, but I have fixed a Susan Bates plastic shuttle. Get out a pot and boil some water - enough to cover the shuttle if it bounces around. Drop the shuttle in and leave it for a few seconds then very carefully remove it and using pot holders (it will be quite hot) squeeze the tips together. Don't squeeze too hard or you will warp the bow of the plastic. If you can't get it tight enough, drop it in for a few more seconds. The key here is SECONDS, and not more than a few t a time. This worked for me. I make no guarantees about Tatsy shuttles. They may be a different kind of plastic. If it's sprung too far, you won't get perfect results, but it works pretty good for a small opening.

Hope this helps.


Ann Brady
Asheboro, NC

[Kersti]

Posted by tantelise
on Mon Feb 24, 2003

Haven't fixed one either, but I just fished out my Rebecca Jones book to look something up and had skimmed past the page where she tells how to do the exact thing!

She says to drop the offending shuttle into "quite warm" (no # of degrees given) for one or two minutes and then to clamp the blades with spring clothes pins "for a short time" (again, nothing specific given). At least it's a little less drastic than boiling water!

And since a Tatsy is softer plastic than, say, a Clover, it shouldn't take long.

Lisa D in PA





Posted by dbdempsey01
on Mon Feb 24, 2003

> So what I need to know is, has anyone fixed a sprung Tatsy, and
> exactly how did you do it?

Lynn, This just happened to me also!! I got my Tatsy shuttles (I had mail ordered mine)for the mock motif tablecloth I'm making. When I was winding the second Tatsy, I noticed that it didn't really "click" much, but then Friday when I was tatting in my Civil War outfit at the theater for the opening of "God's & Generals", I noticed that the end was totally open. I already have it totally wound with thread so I didn't want to attempt the "drop in warm water, pinch ends with clothespins" method which I had successfully used on my old celluloid shuttle. I therefore tried the "place under lamp until warm and pinch ends with fingers until cool" method. I was successful in closing the less sprung end to a nice "Click" and the other wider sprung end to almost touching. I am going to try and see if I can get it to click, too, but if yours isn't that sprung, it should work to get it back to "click". Mine are the non-see-through type, but I don't think that would matter much. Good luck on getting your Tatsy fixed!

Becky Dempsey





Posted by litleflrt
on Wed Feb 26, 2003

I don't know how to fix your tatsy but I'd save it for when you want to try to use peaches and cream threads that you would normaly crochet or knit dish towels with. I have a tatsy and I wish it was just a tad but sprung to let the larger yarns flow through the points better. The peaches and creams yarns tat up wonderfuly for some heavy duty utility tatting.

Tracy
Nata # 185
freezing Wi

[jenO]

i haven't had this happen to me, but it's nice to know you can do something about it when it does. i use mainly metal. but i would like to increase my collection.

[Lynn]

Jen, I have a couple of metal Celtic shuttles. When I first got them the tips of one was so tight I couldn't wind it. The kind, helpful folks at Handy Hands told me to use something thin and flat, like a nail file, to gently pry the points apart. It worked. Too well. Then I had to mash them back together again. But the thing about metal is you can do this, and it works quite well. Plastic is a whole nother kettle of fish.

[ginabea]

If you are on friendly terms with the optometrist or glasses maker, they use hot sand to shape the ear pieces on glasses for better fit. Perhaps they would be good enough to let you "play in their sandbox" : ) Best stitches to you, gina Butler in OKC