Adjusting needle rocker to needle hole

[Michiel]

[Gregg From Keystone Sewing]

We get quite a few Adler 166 machines in here for service, and stock some of the common items.  It's a machine that comes up quite a bit here.

Not in the 166-1 book, we use the race rings from, among others, the 366 parts book to move the hook closer to the needle.  See below image.

[Michiel]

After giving it an other look i discoverd  yesterday that my race (part 64 oo 205 0 on the expoloided vieuw) has  thread on the outside so by turning it 360 degrees it moved to the needle.

now  the needle is in the middle of the neelde plate and the hook needle clearance is ok.

this was the last adjustment i needed so now it sews like new.

i changed the needlesystem to 7x23 bevause it has an longer scarf (and i already had a lot of needles in that system from an other 166)

Because of of the stitchwide of 9mm or 10 mm it helps.

[Michiel]

In the adler 166 parts manual there are no race rings, but it seems my race (is it called so? ) to have the same part numbre (or is the six a five ?, hard to see on my copy

[Gregg From Keystone Sewing]

1 hour ago, Michiel said:

In the adler 166 parts manual there are no race rings, but it seems my race (is it called so? ) to have the same part numbre (or is the six a five ?, hard to see on my copy

Adler 166, 266, and 366 all use this same race.

[Michiel]

Thanks, for your reply's.

just Curiosity: does de race in the 366 als use thread, and are the race rings for extra?

as far as i can see in the parts manual when they designd the 166 they thought it was enough to hold the race "on the thread "(sorry my english is not as good as i would like )

but on the 366 everything seems to be a little bit stronger...

[Michiel]

1 hour ago, Gregg From Keystone Sewing said:

Adler 166, 266, and 366 all use this same race.

Are all the settings also the same?

i used the service manual from the 366 since i did not find one for the 166.

is there someone with an service manual for the adler 166?

 

 

[Michiel]

On the 2 adler 166 's i could look into the moment of inversion of the driver (in the race) is different from the 366 service manual.

and because of that i think the driver should travel further to the left if i would follow the rule in the 366 manual....

on the foto you see the position of the hook on the moment of inversion of the driver (the "most to the left moment " of the hook) 

on this point i did not follow the 366 manual but the other machine....

the machine is sewing very well now so its more curiosity than a problem which should be solved 

 

Edited April 2, 2018 by Michiel

[Gregg From Keystone Sewing]

Adler 166 Owners

Adler 166 Parts

Adler 166 Brochure

[Michiel]

Yesterday i cleaned the outside of the machine

(still not sure wther i keep it this way or put some new paint on it)

its now ready to use.

this post is to say thank you to  this forum

What  a great place on te internet is this!

kind regards, michiel