The Machine That I Fiddled With Today
#481
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Oh he** no this is not my machine. It's a family members', I was just dumb enough to agree to service it for her. I couldn't find anything wrong except what I think is a broken piece of part of the motor mount. It doesn't seem to affect how it runs, so I'll tell her what I found and pray she doesn't ask me to fix it.
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#484
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Victorian Sweatshop Forum
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#485
Free, and in mint condition with tons of accessories? No way I could have passed that up. People on eBay go ape for those machines, and the accessories are easy to sell.
#486
The only thing about it I liked was the cabinet and I had to weigh whether it was worth the gas just getting there and back. Oh, it did make a stitch that resembled a Scottie dog. I thought that was cool.
#487
I am multi-tasking today. I can't decide it I am efficient or chaotic.
I have a stinky Featherweight case in the car heating, a library table in poor condition with wood glue and clamps at alternate points to get the separated wood back together, hit the Bernina 730 with some Kroil (I am considering moving forward with the little brat), cleaned the outside of a Kenmore 1760 preparing to work on the insides and am currently wiring the motor back onto the Pfaff 130.
This motor has been a beast to open up but was making a noise like potato chips being crushed so it had to be. The parts were difficult to get apart and the paint got pretty scarred up in the process. Once I had it open I cleaned it well and decided to mask it off carefully and throw some paint on it. I soldered new wires on it but every time I tried to get it back together this or that was in the way and I had to pry it apart again! Somewhere in there I dropped it once and also pulled so hard the wires tore off the brush holders at one point.
Everything has been re-soldered and is back together. I tested it out and by the grace of God it still runs. I just put new terminal ends back on and decided to break for lunch. *Crossing my fingers!
I have a stinky Featherweight case in the car heating, a library table in poor condition with wood glue and clamps at alternate points to get the separated wood back together, hit the Bernina 730 with some Kroil (I am considering moving forward with the little brat), cleaned the outside of a Kenmore 1760 preparing to work on the insides and am currently wiring the motor back onto the Pfaff 130.
This motor has been a beast to open up but was making a noise like potato chips being crushed so it had to be. The parts were difficult to get apart and the paint got pretty scarred up in the process. Once I had it open I cleaned it well and decided to mask it off carefully and throw some paint on it. I soldered new wires on it but every time I tried to get it back together this or that was in the way and I had to pry it apart again! Somewhere in there I dropped it once and also pulled so hard the wires tore off the brush holders at one point.
Everything has been re-soldered and is back together. I tested it out and by the grace of God it still runs. I just put new terminal ends back on and decided to break for lunch. *Crossing my fingers!
#488
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Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Victorian Sweatshop Forum
Posts: 4,096
Christy just reading this is making me tired. I'm being efficient today. I'm meeting a lady in the same town where I'm picking up a treadle to unload a Singer card table before I go get the treadle. We're meeting at my favorite quilt shop so I don't think I'm going to be efficient with the money though.
Cari
Cari
#489
Christy just reading this is making me tired. I'm being efficient today. I'm meeting a lady in the same town where I'm picking up a treadle to unload a Singer card table before I go get the treadle. We're meeting at my favorite quilt shop so I don't think I'm going to be efficient with the money though.
Cari
Cari
On a good note: It's aliiiiive! The Pfaff lives! Quick someone hand me some fabric so I can pierce it with ultimate vintage Pfaff power and speed! Ahahahaha!
Now I am picking tape off yet another table trying to decide if it is in decent enough shape to re-finish without killing myself or whether I will paint it. Not robin's egg blue though.
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