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Thanks nejcek74, I too found the needle plate from the second link you posted and it looks as if it would fit; screw holes looks to be in the right place, but without the appropriate feed dogs I’m still stuck… I have already ordered a set of the Pfaff 438 needle plate and feed dogs similar to the ones you found; the screw holes are wrong but I figure I can drill some new ones and try to botch it into place somehow. It’s also possible that the 438 feed dogs could work with the needle plate from the second link. Unless anyone else can set me up with the real articles, or some good leads as to acquire them, I’ll post my botch-job progress with the 438 plate and dogs when they arrive in a few weeks.

In my Pfaff 138 manual there is a picture of a feed dog set, with a configuration of 6 individual feed dogs, as well as a matching needle plate - both with individual parts numbers. This set up would be ideal for my needs but I can’t find any trace of either anywhere on-line! Anyone else come across these mystery feed dogs and needle plate? Part number: Needle plate 91-048 932-04 Feed dogs 91-047 401-04

Thanks, never occurred to me that the text could be corrected - I'm less tech-savvy than most evidently.

Presser foot bar indeed, I stand corrected.

Thanks nejcek74, that sorted it out - such a simple and obvious solution now that you have explained it! I filed down the lower portion of the presser foot bar sides ever so slightly and now all of my high shank industrial presser feet fit really well and perfectly lines up with the needle. And like you pointed out nejcek74, the original Pfaff presser feet can still be used by swapping over to the top hole in the presser foot bar. It’s as if those german engineers had thought of this solution all a long!

I have finally managed to get hold of my dream machine, the elusive Pfaff 138. I love most things about it, except the limited selection of presser feet available. I have a large collection of high shank industrial presser feet from my old Singer 31K that would be great to use but none of them fit. The original Pfaff 138 presser feet are way taller than regular high shank industrial presser feet, and although I have tried lowering the needle bar - the distance is just too great to bridge the gap. Also, none of the high shank industrial presser feet seem to fit the Pfaff needle bar particularly well, the profile of the attachment area on the Pfaff bar is slightly different than that of the Singer it seems. No problem, just get the presser foot adaptor! That would probably solve all my problems but after having scoured the interwebs thoroughly I have managed to find precious few presser foot adaptor for the Pfaff 138/134 - found one on German eBay for the ridiculous price of 110 euros, or approximately 120 US dollars! That doesn’t make sense in my world so I need to come up with a different solution. I have found an adaptor for a Goldenwheel post-bed sewing machine, that looks like it could possible work. Anyone else out there have the same problem and have come up with a good solution?