Gymnast Report post Posted April 26, 2019 I consider to buy a Pfaff 1245 second hand. What should I check before buying? It is the old model of the 1245. At the sellers place, it cannot be attached to electric power and air pressure. Therefore more functions cannot be checked, so some risk taking is involved. Air pressure is used to operate the presser foot lifting. I suppose some resonable alternative solution can be applied - am I right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gregg From Keystone Sewing Report post Posted April 27, 2019 (edited) On 4/26/2019 at 2:47 AM, Gymnast said: I consider to buy a Pfaff 1245 second hand. What should I check before buying? It is the old model of the 1245. At the sellers place, it cannot be attached to electric power and air pressure. Therefore more functions cannot be checked, so some risk taking is involved. Air pressure is used to operate the presser foot lifting. I suppose some reasonable alternative solution can be applied - am I right? This is very difficult to answer. I think that if the machine is setup to work only with pneumatic cylinders or electronic solenoids or both, and or this machine likely has a motor that is 20 or more years older should be a concern. Even if the motor does work, can you get service for it? QuickRotan motors were used on a lot of those Pfaff models and can be a big issue to service or even find owners manuals with parameters, and I've tried. That's even before assuming that this machine is mechanically sound, or is it missing parts? Is the motor 3 Phase 220V, 1 Phase 220V or maybe even 110V single phase? A lot can go wrong here even if the seller is convinced that the machine is good to go, second hand sellers rarely can offer a lot of technical knowledge about equipment like this. Hope this helps! Edited April 27, 2019 by Gregg From Keystone Sewing Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gymnast Report post Posted April 27, 2019 Thank you Gregg, for your adwise. I have been thinking in the same lines as you. I know, that the motor runs on 3x400 VAC - and the owner says, it is a servo motor. But it seems quite big. And there is a lot of pneumatic control things on the machine, and my guess is, that it is outdated. So I think, that the way forward with it is to strip it from the motor and all the air control and get a new servomotor for it. But can I miss something here, that really needs the compressed air? I don't like to have compressed air installed at a the new place for it. My use for it will be mainly repair Work on tarpaulin covers and webbing. The owner said, that the compressed air system also was involved in distributing lubrication oil, but I find that very hard to belive. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
