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I recently purchased an Adler K204 machine. I have been unable to find any information on this machine, are any of you familuar with this model? some things I would like to know is the different needels that it will use. also thread types. I will be using the machine to make belts, cases, holsters, saddle repair etc. I have posted in other locations on this forum and had no response, so any help would be appreciated.

I'm getting my Adler 867 hopefully this week. Anyone have experience or own this machine? I'm excited to get back to work and can't wait for it to get here! Malik

I bought an old secondhand leather sewing machine (an Adler 169) and all's right except the marks that makes the pressing foot: it's a little wheel with a graven impressed (I think it's for pull the leather better) BUT this leaves marks on the leather. If I got down the pressure doesn't sew good because not drag the work. The problem: The guilty: That only happen significantly in cow leather, but is the one I want to sew. There's any trick to avoid it? Or you know if a teflon wheel exist? Or something to do after in the leather to eliminate or dissimulate? Please, any idea will help! Thanks a lot!! Greta

I have an Adler 67 GK373. I'm using 138 thread top and bottom with 134-35LR size 21 needle. I'm sewing 6-7 oz vegetable tanned leather. Everything works fine until it is time to turn. Normally you would turn the work with the needle down but when I do that the bobbin thread ends up pulling through on the surface. So I have been running a number of tests trying to figure out why this is. It is probably worth mentioning that when I lift my foot there is not an automatic tension release on this machine. It has a thumb tension release lever. So here is what appears to be happening. The feed dog has a groove running in line with the direction of the sewing. It also has serrated teeth on each side of that groove. When I stop with the needle down and release the foot, the leather stays down snug against the feed dog. In fact the feed dog is in its highest position at this point and sets proud of the needle plate. When I turn the leather the bobbin thread hangs up on the feed dog serrations and a little bit gets pulled out of the bobbin, thereby changing the tension on the bottom thread for the next stich. So my work around is to turn work just after the needle has excited the leather. There is tension on the top and bottom, because the stich is being pulled tight. When I lift the foot the leather is a hair breadth above the foot dog because of the tension of the upper and lower threads. And also the thread is directly inline with the feed dog hole, so when I turn the work it doesn't catch. This is slower and my first stitch after the turns varies ever so slightly in length, but I don't get the knot pulling through to the top of the work. So I was wondering, if anybody else has had this problem and if there were different type of feed dogs that I should be looking into? In fact I woul appreciate any suggestion for the type of foot, feed dog, and needle plate I should be using to sew 1/4 inch thick leather for holsters. Thanks.Scott