Adler 267 Timing Problem?

[276ccm]

Yeah! The machine is sewing again!!! I followed the video step by step, and HURRAY! :-) Thanks a lot! :-)

https://youtu.be/FZ1zAcoPHnY

Yes Tor, something else might have moved, but not sure where, as you see from this picture, it was really way off. But after to hook timing it sews well, and I can't hear any strange noises :-)

I adjusted the clutch screws after the clutch was engaged.

When I'm back in Spain in end of Octobre, I'll try to take the clutch apart and clean it well and oil it up again.

Muchas gracias all of you! :-)

Regards Marius :-) A happy sewer at the moment! :-)

[Trox]

That's great Marius, Uwe made a very good video for you. The accident was a valuable lesson for you. You should give the hook and bobbin house a good clean out too, check the hook tip for burrs. You can always use a white ceramic stone to remove burrs on the hook tip. It's so fine it only polishing. Check that the bobbin house opener will alow your heaviest thread to pass true. And check the distance hook needle with that same biggest needle; as close as possible without hitting the hook.

We talk when you coming to Oslo.

Tor

[276ccm]

Most defiantly a valuable lesson! Yes I will try to clean up all the parts I can, and I´m not so afraid now to open my machine and loosen things, but only the things I´m 100% sure how to do hehe :-) The video was fantastic and truly helped me a lot, together with all the explanations :-)

Talk to you soon Tor, and have a great weekend all! :-)

[Wellington]

On 9/11/2015 at 3:55 PM, Uwe said:

... I just finished making a little video that shows how my safety clutch works and how to verify hook timing on my machine:

 

 

Uwe, I just want to say a huge THANK YOU! for posting this excellent video. I recently purchased an old Adler 67-GK373 that seemed to be out of time, and I probably wouldn't have bought it if I had not already seen your video on how to time it. Having bought the 67, I also bought the English service manual, but your video definitely made it much easier to understand what would need to be done to re-time the machine. 

Before I started the re-timing process, I took out the needle that was in the machine when I bought it, and put in a new 134-35 needle – and lo and behold, the needle that was in it when I bought it was 5-8mm too long, and that's what led me to believe it was out of time. When I tried the machine with the proper-length needle, it sewed just fine!

Anyway, many thanks to Uwe and to leatherworker.net for this invaluable resource. I'm learning a lot here and just wanted to thank you all for it.