DanishMan

Thank you Constabulary. One little question more. When the feed dog emerges it lifts the presser foot slightly. This will move the food lift bar on the back of the machine continuously. Is this normal? Kind regards Danishman

Dear Friends I hope you are all well. About half a year ago, I bought an Adler 204 at an auction in Denmark. It was in pretty good condition and the price was low. It turned out, that the various motor had to be scrapped. The motor started up, but when pushing the foot pedal, the cludge did not engage. Now I will fit a strong servo motor to the sewing machine. I like this better, though I have had to abandone the pneumatic foot lift. I will have to sort out how to make a manual presser foot lift. One thing, that puzzles me, is the presser foot. It appears to be fixed and to have no movement at all. Is this right? Kind regards Danishman

Dear Friends I am looking for an instruction manual for a Camoga C300. Anyone here, that has one? Kind regards Danish Man

Thank you Jonas My guess was 50 kgs. A few months ago I put a hot press machine into my car - weighing 70 kgs. Heavy duty stuff. Cheers Søren PS - It is a 204-64

Dear Friends I have bought an Adler 204 at an auction in Denmark.. I am going to pick it up next week. Any of you know how much the machine head weighs itself? Cheers DanishMan

Thank you Bob

Dear Friends Yesterday I found an Adler 204 at an auction in Denmark. I won the auction, and now my quiestion is whether an 204-64 has reverse? Anyone who knows? Cheers Danishman

Washing of machine and parts

After parting out the 543, I decided to take the 145 apart as well, as it was immense dirty. I use a water based industrial cleaner for washing all the parts and the machine itself.

First thing was to part out the PFAFF 543. Not difficult, when you do it in the right order. The most difficult thing is always to remove the main shaft. Before attempting to remove the main shaft - the take up lever must be removed. It is pretty easy, but it can only be removed in a very specific position. Regarding the main shaft, obviously one need to loosen all the screws in the gears, eccentrics etc, but still it is often very difficult. I have have found, that over time, the outer part of the main shaft often has small burs, gouges etc from years of use, in which the hand wheel has been on and off several time. These small damages makes it virtually impossible to remove the main shaft. They have to be removed first. Use a fine file or sandpaper. Using another main shaft - and a rubber hammer - prevents burs at the end of the main shaft.

Finally I will fit a stronger take up lever to the machine, enabling it for heavy duty sewing.

Also I will use the feed lifting shaft of the 543

I will part of the 543 and use the following parts from the 543 The eccentric of the 543 including push rod. The hook saddle holding the bobbin case of the PFAFF 543

Dear Friends On a Facebook forum about industrial sewing machine mechanics somebody recently asked, if it was possible to change the bobbin case of a PFAFF 145 to the larger bobbin case of a PFAFF 545. I have done this on two 145s a few years ago, and it is a fairly simple process. I have decided to replace the bobbin case of an old PFAFF 145 with the bobbin case of a PFAFF 543, which is also used on the PFAFF 545. At the same time, I will use the extra eccentric of the 543, which enables the four-motion feed of the feed dog. The PFAFF 545 does not have this movement, but machines like the PFAFF 1245, 1445, 1525 etc have this feed dog motion. PFAFF 145 and PFAFF 543

Dear Friends For the past 5 years, I have restored 15+ skiving machines. Most have been Fortunas, but there have also been Danias, Vilhelm Pedersens, KAEVs etc. Right now, I am working on an older Fortuna, which I found in Poland. The machine was complete, but one part was not original. I am looking for the arm, that direct the belt for the grinding wheel. I have enclosed two photos. They are not of my machine, but of another Fortuna machine, which shows the missing part. If anyone has this part as a spare, I would like to buy it. Kind regards Danish Man

Dear Friends I am looking to buy a PFAFF 1445, but I find it difficult to interpret the number plate. On the first line it says 1445 706/07-900/56 Below it says 901-1445 02/015 I am pretty sure, that the "901" refers to the trimming function. Does anyone here know the maximum stitch length and how much material can you put under the foot. Kind regards Danish Man

Hi Keegan I have taken 15 skiving machines apart over the last couple of years. I am not quite sure, what you mean. Do you mean, how to remove the scrap ejector? Cheers Søren

It should be fairly easy to replace this spring.

When I started working with skiving machines, I sometimes used leather straps. Now I use a 6 mm polyethylene belt. Much easier - you can weld the strap together, once fitted and it does not get longer with use - as is the case with a leather strap. Brgds Danishman

It looks like a Sagitta

It is actually a Durkopp 1767 - my mistake.

Hi Volker But when the hand wheel gets stuck she can just touch the foot pedal, and the machine sews. Probably something in the hand wheel. Cheers Danishman

Dear Forum A friend of mine has a Durkopp 176 sewing machine. A machine I know nothing about. Se has a problem with the hand wheel. The machine works perfectly well, using the foot pedal, but when turning the hand wheel manually, she can rotate it just a few centimeters before it gets stuck. Any idea og what the problem might be? We do not live in the same city, and I have not had a chance to check the machine for real. Brgds Danishman

Thank you Glenn I will try to contact him. Cheers Soren

Dear Friends I have a question about how to adjust a Quick Rotan motor. It is not for a leather machine, but for a Union Special 34700. However the Quick Rotan is also used on many leather sewing machines. When I got it, the thread trimmer and foot lift did not function (powered by a magneto). After replacing the carbon brushes, the foot lift magneto is back to life. However, the sequencing is off: When pushing the threadle, the presser foot goes down, and the machine starts to sew. When releasing the threadle, the needles stop in down posistion, but the presser foot goes up. When healing, the threadle, the needles go up, the presser foot goes down, and the trimmer activates. Then the presser foot goes up again. Anyone here, that have experienced a similar problem - or anyone that has a Quick Rotan instruction manual covering adjustment og the magnetos? Kind regards Danishman