Pfaff 335 BB (older model) experience?

[plinkercases]

43 minutes ago, gigi said:

Congratulations!  Those are great machines, I also have a Pfaff 335 old casting, mine is 17B H2L. I find useful the binding attachments, flat bed attachment, drop down guide. 

I am very excited and got a whack of leather - $1200 CDN ( like 6 dollars USD!!) for the machine and $500 CDN for way more than that in leather. I would love to have a drop down guide and flat bed attachment though I think I can make one of those..... now I just need to quit my day job so I can play with it all - all day long.

1 hour ago, jimi said:

if your hand wheel is massive and not spoked i dont know why you would need a bigger one??

My new (to me but old model)  machine pictured  has a solid but small wheel...tough to hand set the needle and kick start it.

[jimi]

here are a few pictures of the restoration of one that turned up..

 

Edited June 13, 2018 by jimi

[dikman]

Plinker, I simply used a spare pulley that I had to replace the handwheel (coupled with the servo it slows things down quite a bit). I had to make a sleeve as the pulley hole was too big. A 550w motor will be plenty big enough.

Jimmy, the hole for the rod is pretty well a "standard" looking hole, the problem appears to be the design of the sliding lifter. I intend to have another look at it sometime simply because it annoys me that I can't figure it out! You can see the tension release lever in the photo, I haven't seen this design in any other photos I've looked at .

 

Edited June 13, 2018 by dikman

[dikman]

I just finished reading your renovation writeup, Jimi, and realised that yours appears to be the same vintage as mine - mine is labelled 17BL. Presumably they pre-date the introduction of the H designation, but I have no idea what the 17 stands for.

[jimi]

9 hours ago, dikman said:

but I have no idea what the 17 stands for.

there was a page describing this somewhere but i cannot find it?? i am sure i saved it, somewhere?? i saw a pdf in German talking about various machines and there was an illustration of a 335 and it had lat lever on it, same as yours. seems like your machine is the same type dikman so i can´t see why that wont work for you?? could you send a close up of the back where the foot lifter is, that is where it pushes the rod? 

[dikman]

I agree, it should work. I'll see if I can take a photo or two tomorrow.

[gigi]

I think Pfaff 335-17 is a binding machine subclass (so the machine was originally a binding machine). Quote  from the instruction book for the 335 old casting:

'The operational instructions given in this booklet pertain not only to the ordinary Pfaff 335-17 binding machine, but also to all other subclass varieties. The individual subclasses are fitted to suit different operational requirements. The various subclass organizations differ only in the type of rigid or swing-away binder or tape guide mounted on the feed-synchronized attachment bracket. An exception are the Pfaff 335-9, -09, and -09-33 which are specially designed for portfolio work and have a rigid tape guide mounted on the cylinder arm. The Pfaff 335-332 X 251 occupies a special position in that it is fitted with upper feed acceleration control rather than ordinary unison feed '

Edited June 14, 2018 by gigi

[jimi]

Ok dikman.

thanks gigi.

[plinkercases]

The machine and a whack of leather are in the back of van on the way to the farm shop and a TechSew 550 servo on the way!

thanks to all the links and this discussion I have all the manuals I need down loaded already. As mentioned I will ask fro a little help identifying some of the feet I got in a bag and sourcing a swing down guide.

Will be looking for a little larger hand wheel now and then I will QUITE my day job and live in the shop!!!

Officially a multiple machine fella now.

[dikman]

Yep, thanks gigi, that makes sense.

Careful, plinker, you're one step closer to collecting!. I'm curious to see what other bits came with it.