Pfaff 1245-706 Knurled Screw

[shoepatcher]

Oakley,

I heard back from Luke at MJ Foley. He can get you the screw here in the States for $26.45US plus shipping. best I can do.

glenn

[Oakley]

Thank you very much for your help. Unfortunately I'm in Germany, shipping from the US is quite difficult. I will order the other part which is available and try to change the inner thread to a standard M8. I hope that works and is a bit cheaper.

[Constabulary]

You should probably update your profile and show people where you come from. That sometimes helps to point you to things close to you and not to things on the other side of the big pond - if you know what I mean. Most members are form the US so the 1st assumption is that a member is form the US when he is asking questions.

28€ is not a killer price for a sewing machine part and I would not damage original parts when I can buy original parts at this comparatively low price.

28€ is a lot for a simple thumb screw but not a too bad price for a sewing machine part. So when you can find the part for 28€ (maybe + shipping) I would buy it!!!

And be careful with tapping new threads, sewing machine parts are often hardened and can kill your tap!!! So it could probably cause some more damage and then it will become really expensive.

[Uwe]

I'd buy the original part. It's not that expensive and time is money, too. You probably already spent hours researching the screw online and trying different things. You'll spend more hours trying to make the other part work drilling and tapping an otherwise perfectly good piece of machinery. Unless you put no value on your own time, you won't save any money, really. But that's just my opinion.

[Darren Brosowski]

The equivalent from a Chinese PFAFF 335 clone should fit but because of the cost of holding such a low volume spare it will still cost a fair bit.

Buy the original and just get the machine going as it is costing you money while you sit there worrying about a few dollars cost.

[Oakley]

In Germany it's not available at all. One company wrote it's available but they can not order it. I think I will order it in UK.

[TRHLeather]

I was missing the same part. The 1245 that I received was a parts machine at one time and I bought it at an auction without a handful of parts. I was missing that part and I took the insert from the top to a local machine shop and he made me a new part out of a larger Allen head cap screw, cut down to the correct thread.