A sewing friend with industrial experience was given this bobbin case. She doesn’t know what machine it came from, so I am hoping one of the pros out there recognizes it.
It’s clearly special purpose, and wondering if it may have come from a machine that is made for sewing furs, but that’s just a wild guess.
Is this slightly off topic, but it is likely of interest here.
“What AB 660 Requires
Beginning July 1, 2026, manufacturers, processors, and retailers that place date labels on packaged foods sold in California must use standardized terminology.
The law creates two approved categories of date labels:
Quality Dates
These indicate when a product is at peak freshness or quality, but may still be safe to consume afterward.
Approved phrases include:
“BEST if Used by”
“BEST if Used or Frozen by”
Safety Dates
These indicate when a product should be consumed or frozen for food safety reasons.
Approved phrases include:
“USE by”
“USE by or Freeze by”
The law also allows abbreviations such as “BB” and “UB” for very small packages or certain beverage containers.
“Sell By” Dates Will Be Banned
One of the biggest changes is that consumer-facing “Sell By” dates will no longer be allowed on most packaged foods sold in California after July 1, 2026.
Retailers may still use internal coded inventory rotation systems, but those dates cannot appear in a format intended for consumers. The goal is to eliminate the misunderstanding that “sell by” means unsafe to eat.
Does the Law Require All Foods to Have Date Labels?
No.
AB 660 does not require all foods to carry date labels. Instead, the law standardizes the wording if a manufacturer chooses—or is otherwise legally required—to use a date label.
Certain products are also exempt from portions of the law, including:
Infant formula
Eggs
Beer and malt beverages
Wine and distilled spirits”
There’s a trending post in r/kitchenconfidential.
Someone posted a rant about a video game that includes a restaurant kitchen. Is complaint was about so many inaccuracies.
Quite a few people have expressed enthusiasm for a new and better restaurant based game oriented towards restaurant professionals.
Check it out if you’re looking for a new project. I would cross posted here, but that sub apparently does not allow it.
I can’t add a photo to the original post, so here’s a new one.
My vintage Trek hybrid bike didn’t have the right connection points for a front mount, so I borrowed some brackets from an old rear mount rack that I’m not going to use.
I was pleased to find that the rack has a feature for holding a U lock, so I finally have a cure in convenient way to carry it without tangling up my handlebars.
Thanks to everyone for your advice and encouragement!
I have resigned myself to the fact that I will probably not be able to afford to blow glass at a regular basis, so I compromised and bought glass using kiln.
I want to make fruit with blue vodka bottles, so I need to insulate a pair of kitchen tongs.
Most tongs I have seen in hot shops look like they have woven fiberglass cloth wrapped around the ends. Is that really what it is, or is it something fancier than that?
If it’s fiberglass cloth, I can probably scrounge some from an auto body shop, or maybe even my own garage.
One night at the maker space, I worked on two different sewing machines. One was a mid 70s singer machine. I spent about an hour cleaning and lubricating it, and it worked like new after that.
The machine in the photo add an issue that my expert friend and I could not figure out. This is what it looked like over 90 minutes later, with two of us working intently on it. We never did figure out what was wrong with it, and it probably still looks like this.
Friends don’t let friends buy $200 plastic sewing machines! They are virtually unrepairable, even in the opinion of technicians at a local sewing machine shop I go to occasionally.
“I’m sorry, it will cost more to repair it than the machine is worth.” I actually witnessed that conversation.
This is taken a couple of days ago and my friends, 2001 C320. It previously belonged to her parents.
The car is nearly pristine, but for the typical maintenance stuff that got deferred, suspension, bushings, etc.