I am slowly training up on the Pfaff 345 I recently bought from Chris. It is a great machine, and it works much like my household machine from the 1950's.
I'm still struggling with the clutch. I get the classic sequence:
Nothing...nothing...nothing,,, it starts to vibrate....WHAM!! It takes off at 1000spm. I have been able to soften this a bit by rolling the wheel by hand, as the motor starts to move the needle, but that sometimes requires 3 hands.
What's the verdict on using