Cheap wf or industrial ?

[dikman]

Pfaff are nice machines, but be aware parts can be expensive.

[Dave4]

dikman makes an important point.

When I was shopping for a compound feed walking foot flatbed machine, i narrowed the field with the following considerations:

Singer 111w155 - the original design, no reverse, parts are fairly easy to find and inexpensive.

Singer 211 - newer version of 111, has reverse, some parts are shared, others are hard to find.  

Seiko STH-8BLD into the current generation 3, and Consew 206RB through generation 4 with a TH serial number - these are basically all the same machine with only minor differences, they share many parts which are all easy to find and inexpensive.   These are japanese machines, very well made.  Today's Consews and perhaps even the Seiko are now made in Chinese factories, but there has been no huge slide in quality according to most dealers.  I also looked at Consew 225/226 and 255 style machines, which are capable and have available and affordable parts, but I chose to stay with a 206 style machine.  

Juki LU 562/563 and 1508/1541 - Japanese manufacturer, very good quality, same type of machine, parts are easy to find but a little more expensive.  

Pfaff - 145 / 545 / 1245 family - same type of machine, very good quality, parts are hard to find and very expensive.  

There is a TacSew machine that belongs to this family and probably shares many parts, but I did not research this machine so I don't know anything about it.  

National 300N - same family, worth mentioning, but I don't know anything about it.  

IMO, these are the machines to keep an eye out for.  They will do anything you need up until you start sewing over 3/8" of material.  

I really thought I'd bring my 26 home, clean it and start sewing, but the farther i went into it, the more little parts and screws I found that were missing or needed replacing.  I ended up needing about 15 little things, but they were easy to find online and inexpensive to buy because my machine is a 206RB and not a 545.  

Good luck!

[MADMAX22]

Wiz has a 300n that I am pretty sure he still really likes. Its a nice machine from the looks of it. There is another company that the name excapes me right now which had the same machine as the 300n but different name. Saw one on CL a while back and really wanted to pick it up but funds werent there at the time. 

[Wizcrafts]

56 minutes ago, MADMAX22 said:

Wiz has a 300n that I am pretty sure he still really likes. Its a nice machine from the looks of it. There is another company that the name excapes me right now which had the same machine as the 300n but different name. Saw one on CL a while back and really wanted to pick it up but funds werent there at the time. 

I sold my 300N a year ago for $750.00, complete with a servo motor I bought and installed. It was a most awesome walking foot machine. It is a lot like a Consew 206RB-5.

[MADMAX22]

1 minute ago, Wizcrafts said:

I sold my 300N a year ago for $750.00, complete with a servo motor I bought and installed. It was a most awesome walking foot machine. It is a lot like a Consew 206RB-5.

Ahh thats good to know. What was the other version of the 300n, 

Ahh finally found it nakashima 280L I think it was. 

[Tejas]

There was a Nakajima 280L that I think was the same as the Juki 241H after Juki bought Nakajima.

[TinkerTailor]

Didn't juki also keep making some machines under both names for a while?