ID this Sewing Machine

[Naidni]

Please help ID this machine. Front flywheel like a Frobana ...but too much difference????

Swiss made.

does anyone have a manual?

The curved needle is really a hook to pull the bottom thread to the top where it engages the upper billhook and shuttle/bobbin holder.

Bottom thread is held in 2 "fingers" which present the bottom thread to the needle/hook.

how do I adjust the needle to catch the bottom thread ....now it just misses.

[Uwe]

It may be a Frobana, just a different model from the more common design. At least this defunct Kijiji ad in Calgary showed a very similar machine and called it a Frobana.

Do you have any more pictures? How do you know it's Swiss made?

 

Edited March 6, 2018 by Uwe

[Wizcrafts]

Henry Veenhoven would be the person to ask about this. He lives in or near Toronto and sold Frobana and Junker shoe sole stitchers. He is still a member here, although he last visited us in May, 2017.

[Constabulary]

I would assume an early Rafflenbeul or maybe a modified MS55 / MS200 - but I´m not sure since pictures are very small . There seems to be a tag on the lower right side....

Edited March 6, 2018 by Constabulary

[DrmCa]

@constabulary MS as in Messerschmidt?

[jimi]

I think this was called a Simplex outsole stitcher. similar to the Rafflenbeul outsole stitcher.

http://shoerepairer.info/topic/13092-standard-outsole/

[Naidni]

I kind of agree.. it resembles the technology in the Simplex Photos. who has any parts for these things? or do I make everything?

 

 

18 hours ago, Uwe said:

It may be a Frobana, just a different model from the more common design. At least this defunct Kijiji ad in Calgary showed a very similar machine and called it a Frobana.

Do you have any more pictures? How do you know it's Swiss made?

 

Same machine. that IS this machine. 

[jimi]

Sorry, no idea 

[leathersmyth]

    I actually have two of these tucked away. ( or ones that look similar..)  Have not used for a few years. I think i may have a manual tucked away in a drawer. Will see if i can find...... Off the top of my head, they take the same curved hook and awl as a landis......  Have thought a few times, i should list these rather than having put away. I picked up thinking would work for me,but didn't work as i had planned... 

 The older one looks like the picture. The other one is a newer model.... Has a housing covering the bits....

[Naidni]

On 3/6/2018 at 12:26 AM, Constabulary said:

leathersmyth

This machine is from Calgary...so there must have been a dealer there at one time.

has anyone on here any experience with this type of tension regulator ? I imagine that as you rotate the outside ring...the one with the long slots...that the amount of grab on the thread can be adjusted.