Pfaff 335, Adler 69 type Cylinder arm caps.

[RockyAussie]

I have been doing a few projects recently that need a very small cylinder machine to enable me to get into the tight corners and such. This is still a bit of a work in progress but so far the results have been good. A few more tweaks and they should be excellent. I have a 335 Pfaff , 69 Adler, Tk 335 Elizabeth and a 331 Pfaff that I have finished of some new cylinder caps for. After doing some measurements and tests the width of the caps have now been reduced from 46.6mm down to 41.4mm. ( a bit under 1/4"). The depth has reduced a couple of mm and the length a couple as well. NOTE: except for the Pfaff 331 which has a little more room for reductions, all of the caps fitted and they are all the smaller bobbin variety.

The first picture shows 3 of the 4 caps just finished as against the ones being replaced.

This is the TK335  Elizabeth cylinder showing some comparisons.

This one below shows the Adler 69 fitted well

This one below on my favourite Pfaff 331machine (needle and dog foot feed and no pesky walking foot)

Here are a couple of samples of work where this kind of reduction comes in handy. I do like to be able to stitch around a product fully and try to design for this and the sewing machines capability.

Here I think the difference shows fairly well

If any of you have printers and one of these style machines let me know and I will get you a stl file if you want it.

If you have one of these machines and are one of my followers and do not have a printer... PM me if you would like one.

I know the colour is awful and I could have done them in a metalic silver colour but at least they are easy to find now.

Brian

 

 

[dikman]

Mate, you never cease to amaze me! I wouldn't mind the Pfaff 335 version as my cap has been modified slightly so a spare would be nice.

[RockyAussie]

54 minutes ago, dikman said:

Mate, you never cease to amaze me! I wouldn't mind the Pfaff 335 version as my cap has been modified slightly so a spare would be nice.

File sent in PM .

[dikman]

And received. Ta very much.

[dikman]

Done. Looks much neater than the original (well, my original, at least).

 

[Constabulary]

If someone needs an original cap - I still have 2 of them

[dikman]

They look nicer than mine - but the plastic one will be fine, it cost me almost nothing to make and I can easily make another if I need to.

[RockyAussie]

19 hours ago, dikman said:

Done. Looks much neater than the original (well, my original, at least).

 

WOW that was quick. Looks better than my yellow coloured ones. I am hoping that a few of the other members that have clones of these machines will try them out for fitting. I would like to have a list of the various machines clones etc that it will fit onto to advise everyone. Also if there are any negatives as to where the cap may be improved. For 27 cents of filament electricity included. its not that big a risk really. So far mine have tested in use well and I will do a few more  little changes once I am confident it will fit a wide range of other clones as well. I am thinking of putting this thread into the sewing machine section in order to get some more feedback. Thanks for the feed back.

Brian

[Scoutmom103]

I thought the yellow might be to match the Ducky in your profile pic 

[RockyAussie]

6 minutes ago, Scoutmom103 said:

I thought the yellow might be to match the Ducky in your profile pic 

Ha Ha good one.... I started using this colour awhile back due to my super messy workbenches and just old age and bad memory. I think I spend more time looking for something than I do making stuff sometimes these days........What was i going to say.......Ogh well it'll be there somewhere.