Uwe

Sorry, not yet. 

Unfortunately you cannot simply re-wire a 3-Phase 380V motor to run on regular 220V. 

The motor you have is probably designed for use with 3-phase 220V in "Y" configuration, which provides 380V. 3-Phase power is usually only available in factories and industrial settings. 

One possible option for home use is to get a rotary phase converter that turns regular 220V into 3-Phase, but that's actually quite expensive ($500 or more). 

It may be much cheaper to replace your current motor with a normal, modern servo motor that runs on 220V. 

Things are more complicated if the machine has a fancy controller with automation functions and pneumatic air cylinders (for back-tack, foot lift, reverse, thread trimming etc.)

By the way, posting to somebody's profile is not a private conversation. You can send direct messages that are private.

I made a operating guide video about the DA-205 machine some time ago. The bobbin winding and a loading segment starts at the 8:30 mark. Hope this helps!

This status update area is a public messaging area, by the way. You'll have to use private messaging if you want to communicate in private. 

My technical macro videos are quite different from live action people subjects. My lighting approach may not translate well to your studio sessions.

My camera is a bit more costly than yours, but mainly because I have a good macro lens to get very close to things. I use a Canon 70D with EOS 100mm F2.8 L macro lens, about $2K for the combo. My "video lights" are super cheap in comparison. I use Feit LED shop lights I got at Costco for $25. The tubes are made of plastic and flex a little. I often point my lens between the two tubes to get a cheap ring light of sorts that has almost no shadows.

I always use manual focus when filming technical stuff. With close-up macro photography, depth of field is often very small - sometimes less than a centimeter (1/2") or so of depth is in focus, everything else get super blurry real quick. Sometimes that's useful, sometimes not. To get around that I crank up the ISO sensitivity setting to 6400 or so that I can stop down the aperture to around F/22 to get maximum depth of field so that (most) everything is in focus. The high-ISO video is a little more grainy but the sharpness more than makes up for it. The camera records 30 fps, with 1/30th second shutter speed, at 1920x1080 resolution. I edit in iMovie for the simple stuff.

Here are a few behind the scenes photos of my high-tech studio setup  with the Cowboy 4500 ready for its close-up. 

I used four LED shop lights (one is out of the frame behind me) for the lighting setup. You can see how I splayed one set of plastic tubes apart at the top and point my lens right between it. One light points at the white background to make it bright white. 

Here's the view from behind the camera:

And here's a close-up of the screen:

Yup, guilty as charged! Best of luck with your Adler - they're great machines.

By the way, this is the public status update area. You'll have to use the private messaging system for super-secret stuff.   

I hope you didn't hose it down with water to take a picture! I'll keep an eye out for any info I might come across. Chances are somewhat slim though. This appears to be a pre-WWI design and much documentation was lost in the two wars. 

I checked my box of Union Special manuals. Unfortunately no 6600-LZ manuals in the bunch, no 6600 series manual at all, actually. Union Special made a mind-boggling array of very similar machines with seemingly endless, tiny variations.

If you can send me a few pictures of the machine including the name-plate, I might be able to find a manual that's close enough to be useful.

Hi Maureen, I'll send you a direct message. These message just look private, but they're not. 

Still figuring out this public status update that looks private, but isn't! The swing-down guides need mounting holes which the 3200 and 4500 don't have and the foot-lift lever also is in way. 

The 441 style clones don't have mounting holes on the back and you have to drill and tap your own, which can be tricky. The 441 machines also have the foot lift lever right where the swing down guide would go. I've not yet seen a 441 style machine with a swing down guide and there may be a good reason for that. I just got a Cowboy 4500 and I'll try to make a swing down guide work on it when I get back from vacation. If it works out, I'll post something in the forums about it.

Thank you for resolving the missing image problem, it's a big deal!

I am offering help by pointing out technical issues with the upgrade. I'm not judging or accusing or demanding anything.  I've spent countless hours composing detailed educational posts with images, created graphics, and recorded videos for fellow members, so that the information can be shared and preserved for future use in the archives. All I'm asking is to take precautions not to loose the information we collectively have added to your archives.

The vast majority of users on the site are consumers of information. Very few are content creators. If the archive is not deemed a safe storage place, there will be less incentive to contribute.

The site may be free to access, but the content has value. That value was put there by volunteers who contributed valuable information over the last decade, including the pictures. When you collect a great deal of valuable stuff from volunteers, at some point it becomes a responsibility to maintain that collected value.

Maybe it's still updating but I've yet to see ANY images in the Leather Sewing Machines Forum posts from before the upgrade. Sometimes it shows meta code snippets like [attachment=111916:_MG_1212.jpg] and other times there's no evidence at all where the image should appear. I'm rather concerned about the instances where there is no evidence of pictures at all. It's hard to do a search and replace of meta code if there's nothing to search for in the first place or if the original meta code just got stripped out for some reason. I'm on a Mac using Chrome and Safari browsers.