Global sewing machines

[keithski122]

I'm considering buying a new machine for my job doing car upholstery.I would like a juki 1508 but my budget won't stretch that far.Next on my want list would be a juki 1541 although for similar money I've found a global 1515 which i think is a clone of the 1508.Has anyone experience of this machine, if so do you know if replacement juki parts fit it or would I have to get global parts? Also any other help about this machine would be great.

Here's a link for the global machine:- http://www.globalsew.com/en/wf1515.htm

[Uwe]

The Global brand appears to be one of the better clone options out there. Global brand machines were manufactured by the Minerva-Boskovice plant in the Czech Republic and distributed as a house-brand of the Dutch company IMCA starting in 1992. IMCA later bought the Minerva plant. Then Durkopp Adler bought the Minerva plant from IMCA and made some cooperation agreement to produce OEM Durkopp Adler parts and complete machines there and still make Global brand machines at the same factory. So the Global machines come from a factory with high-end manufacturing capabilities and good quality control. If the label says "Made in the Czech Republic" you likely are looking at a winner.

Chances are high that the Global WF 1515 is a fairly faithful clone of the Juki 1508 and that it would accept most of the OEM Juki parts, but I have no first-hand experience with it.

The Juki engineering manual for the 1500 series  is nicely done and will be a big help in performing repair or maintenance tasks on both OEM and clone machines.

 

 

[keithski122]

Thanks for that info, that manual hopefully won't be needed but fantastic to have it there to use.Just need to bite the bullet sometime to buy the machine.