Gregg From Keystone Sewing

Both machines are really good.

Dan, Pfaff has a lot of books, some awful, and some really fantastic, but it can depend heavily on the model. What model do you have for starters? This would help pin down what may be available to you.

Groz-Beckert second rate? That's news to me. The reality is that it's very rare to have issues with needles and hooks that are genuine quality.

That's who we use as well.

Consew Model Key

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I knew there were going to be some small sparks on this post even before I clicked on the first post.

Apple products? Yeah, China. They have brought back a few token American made products, but they afford to mfg. here for sure and make a massive profit. They just decide not to.

Fixed! Well, most of the new just about anything nowadays come from China and are not made in the US, Europe or Japan. Even the "old name" brands like Toyota or Sony (just to name a few) come from China nowadays. Most Chinese made products are very similar they just have different brand name tags or sticker. But that's not unusual nowadays.

Right, the only problem there for some folks is that the knee/foot lifter is always going to give you that extra presser foot clearance that may be necessary. If setup correctly, this lift can be certainly enough to make a difference. I guess it depends on your work. BTW, the Singer 211 style hand lifter is a lot better than the standard 111W style. It give more leverage, and is a lot easier to locate by feel by hand.

Hooking up a presser foot lifter for a 111W is a bit different, but just as easy, granted you know what parts you will need. All parts shown are identical and the same for a Singer 153W and Consew 227 models, to name a few. All parts shown are necessary for this to work, including the counter spring.

Seems like many of our auto trimmers hate the knee lifter, but like and prefer the presser foot lifter. I could never figure out why, maybe preference, maybe something I'm missing.

Check out the attached, this is one way to do it for sure, and in your case, this is the easiest with fewest parts. Remove the bell crank for the knee lifter, you can see where the two screws are located. Attach a chain to the pull rod, in this case we drilled a cotter pin and put a washer on it so it does not slip off. Attach a foot pedal to the bottom brace, and you have a presser foot lifter foot pedal. Hope this helps.

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Interesting thoughts, and probably not unique to this message board. I have very little control as to how or where the equipment is made. Kind of like not having control of where Mercedes, BMW or Volvo manufacture their vehicles; nobody is asking my opinion. If it were up to me, trust me, I would rather stand behind and warranty a quality made machine. Other dealers would as well who I have spoken with all feel the same way. Nobody want's to open a machine and have problems out of the box. And believe you me, nine out of ten times it's the dealer who gets left holding the bag when a new machine needs repairs direct from the factory. It's just a fact that customers I speak with have decisions and choices to make; new Chinese vs used German or Japanese equipment that are in the same relative price range across many makes and models. Not to mention the fact that you can pretty much across the board get two Chinese machines, often good quality, for the price of one of the Japanese makes. Hope this makes sense, and it's not much of a rant, as I explain this a lot to customers who walk in or that I speak with on the telephone.

205 was selling here for just under $5,000USD street price with stand and motor setup. Again, this is history at this point.

Works for me, and makes perfect sense here.

It's kind of funny a machine that nobody seems to own is creating so much buzz! I think they are going to unveil the full blown version, with all of the parts gold plated!

IMHO this is more sewing history than anything; you're really best off finding a new/used machine than converting. After the labor and parts, it's just not worth it, and there is a reason nobody wants to do this kind of job any longer. It would have to be a special machine or circumstance to really want to go ahead and want to do this.

And change out the bobbin case opening lever as well, CowboyBob know that for sure as well. Not really worth doing this any more, but like said this was a thing at one point. We've had 111W155 machines with big bobbin like this.

Pretty sweet video. I think that most, if not all craft people do a poor job of educating their customers about the added value they put into their products. It's like almost people don't understand what to appreciate or what they are paying for.

Adler 30 parts are available, I've yet to see one that is discontinued. Expensive, yes. For sure.

Very nice, clean looking install. When you put these types of lamps onto machines, you don't notice how much light the produce until you turn it off!

Rex is good, old Japanese quality. Machine is a top bottom feed.