Presser foot for Vilh Pedersen #308 damaged. Help repair or replacement?

[Westaussie]

Hi leatherworkers,

I have a Vilh Pedersen 308 sole stitcher. Unfortunately it is near impossible to stitch in a straight line and I suspect it may be because a previous owner seems to have “modified” the foot, possibly to get a bit more space for the needle to go into the leather without hitting the foot. Subsequently the 2nd row of teeth are missing from one side as well a about 1.5mm in width of the toe part.

So I have two questions:

                                          [1] Am I correct in believing that the toes on the presser foot, that is the section with the ridges that move the leather forward are supposed to be equal in size, shape therefore perfectly symmetrical and able to move the stitches in a straight line?

                                          [2] Is there any way to rectify this problem of poor stitching as I doubt anybody has a spare presser foot to sell or is it possible to have one made, perhaps 3D printed?

Thanks for all and any information so that I can get this wonderful old machine working as it should.

Regards

Cheryl in Perth Western Australia

[Handstitched]

@Westaussie There's  someone on here that was asking about parts for one of those.

The name is @Calidora

just wondering if they were successful  in obtaining  parts?

or the only other place i can think of is ' good ol ebay '

i'm in the central wheatbelt, WA . I think There's one of those machines in our local museum. 

Not too many  West Aussies come on here, welcome  

HS

[Handstitched]

The one in our local museum  may be a ' Junker Ruh' SD 28, not a Pedersen.

Good luck in your search

HS

[Calidora]

23 minutes ago, Handstitched said:

@Westaussie There's  someone on here that was asking about parts for one of those.

The name is @Calidora

just wondering if they were successful  in obtaining  parts?

or the only other place i can think of is ' good ol ebay '

i'm in the central wheatbelt, WA . I think There's one of those machines in our local museum. 

Not too many  West Aussies come on here, welcome  

HS

Unfortunately. I've not been able to find the parts I'm looking for. They are quite hard to find. I'm working on making them myself. For now I have been making due with manually moving the work myself without the stitch length regulator. 

Mine is also a Pederson 308. This and the Junker & Ruh are identical machines. 

[Westaussie]

HS,

I came across this post when doing Google searches for Pedersen 308 machine. It seems the bloke fell in love with it but he does not appear to use it for leather.

[Constabulary]

new SD28 / 308 parts are made of "unobtainium" those who have parts usually keep them except they rip apart worn / broken machines. if it was me I´d tried to look up "cheap" toothed feet for top feed machines and see if I can cut and weld the toothed end.

maybe: 

https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32861132738.html

https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005010121787509.html

https://de.aliexpress.com/item/1005009251866963.html

just a wild idea.... 😉

Edited 2 hours ago by Constabulary