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Definitely double stitch it at this point. Should look okay.

Thanks Steve, Well, that sounds like my answer, the center foot should touch the feed dog. I was thinking because this model Pfaff is considered a pretty heavy duty machine, that the center foot shouldn't be making heavy contact with the feed dogs. My Techsew GA5-1 is a harness and bridle machine that has clearance under the foot that is taken up by the material being pulled through by the feed dogs. The Pfaff is certainly a different machine from the Techsew and a different generation of machine from the Juki. The Juki might be of lighter overall internal construction, but seems to feed anything, light or heavy with excellent stitching. It also runs absolutely smooth without the pounding or heavy contact by the center foot of the Pfaff. I've seen a few threads where people were complaining about their machines pounding from being out of time and that's what caused my concern about the Pfaff. Thanks again for the advice and your response.

Thanks for the reply Bob The adjustable foot pressure spring was removed some where down the line by a prior owner. My local Pfaff dealer says this is common since that spring applies excessive pressure and in often removed. One of the repair steps I looked at in the service manual has to do with timing of the needle bar and the vibrating foot. They seemed to be set according to specs, but I'll check again tomorrow. George 1 you could have the foot presuure to tight.#2 When does the inside foot come down?The needle should come down just slightly before the inside foot comes down on the feed dog. Bo

Pretty sure my Pfaff 1245 has a problem. The secondary vibrating foot contacts the lower feed dogs and pushes off. Seems like the secondary foot should have a small clearance under it for materials to take up the shock rather than hammering down on the feed dogs. It doesn't matter how high the vibrating foot's adjusted, it still hammers down. Not sure how to adjust this even though I've downloaded a user's manual. My other machine, a Juki 241 operates smoothly without hammering the feed dogs. Haven't taken the Pfaff to the shop for adjustment yet. Looking for some advise first. Thanks for any technical advise.

Hey guys thanks for the immediate replies. That's all good advice. Been doing a little more investigation and it is now obvious that who ever was servicing and dismantling the machine at the dealer for shipping was not paying close attention, doing sloppy work and left out screws, bolts and some parts. (Remember the dealer sells REBUILT MACHINES.) Now, I'm pretty sure the machine head had been mounted on a table with motor at the dealer but. I bought just the head since the table and motor were $300 hundreds extra and the cost of shipping them was an additional $150 over the $100 paid for shipping the head alone. So, clearly the problem is that the bobbin case cap is missing leading to the thread tangling around the bobbin post......duh! Feel pretty stupid about not recognizing that immediately since I've owned a couple of industrial machines but was willing to believe the dealer, a man with forty plus years in the business and a self -professed mechanical genius trained in Germany, that no cap was used on this model. WTH??? I sent the dealer the same pictures, yet they argue no cap was used on this model because it is a large bobbin "heavy duty" model. Allowing for benefit of the doubt, let's just say somebody was maybe tired and perhaps just confused. So, which cap is required? Well, obviously a cap for a model 1245....but not exactly because there are early and late versions for the 1245. More research has determined that my machine is the early version with the long hook and without the integral thread guard and sharing the same bobbin case as the earlier Pfaff model 545. That said, I've just ordered a 1245 bobbin cap and hope it is the right one since it was advertised as a 545/1245 cap from Raphael's in Montreal. Absolutely great people and providers of my Techsew GA5-1. Highly recommend these guys. We'll see if this gets the job done.

Just received an older, rebuilt Pfaff 1245 from Miami Industrial Sewing, the head only. It came pre-threaded, and with a photocopy of the Pfaff manual so no problem there. So, I'm not sure what is going on with the machine since the main needle thread won't kick over the bobbin post and catches on that post. Spoke with the seller who insists that I don't have it threaded right. At first I suspected they had left the bobbin case back at the shop but they said this model does not use a bobbin case and I'm just threading it wrong. Well somebody's wrong. Would appreciate any advice on the matter. Is anybody familiar with this model Paff? Attached are a couple of pics. Thanks a bunch.