Revisiting an old thread and an old unsolved problem. I have a Pedersen 308 and a Junker & Ruh, both of which don’t return to the far right. I’ve followed this post and tried various adjustments with no luck. In the end, I resorted to a hack which works well for both machines.
The hack is to put in a shim piece in the needle holder slot so that it angles the needle out to the right. The shim I used is a copper shim plate about 0.2mm thick that fits into the lower half of the needle holder slot. Trust this is obvious? When tightened, the needle then angles out about the right amount. To alter the angle, the shim piece can be raised or lowered.
Not an elegant solution but saved me having to manually move the needle to the right at the end of each stitch (with the risk of fingers being squashed!). Also, interesting to feel how hot the needle gets!
Cheers
