Necchi
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Walland TN
Posts: 390
Excellent machines and you go a great deal. Might want to check out the Necchi Sewing Machine Club Yahoo Group. Lots of info in their files and active group.
It is fantastic that you have cams and the manual... and I think I see attachments as well. Just oil her up and have a go Looks like you are all set.
It is fantastic that you have cams and the manual... and I think I see attachments as well. Just oil her up and have a go Looks like you are all set.
#4
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Join Date: Jul 2011
Posts: 11
I learned to sew on my Mom's Supernova. She purchased hers in 1955 for $500. I found the receipt in 2013 when cleaning out my parent's house. If you bought that machine in today's money it would cost you around $4300. That machine is quieter than most machines today. Read your manual. It threads different than today's machines. I have trouble with sewing machine needles staying in. I usually have to wrap a single layer of tape around the top to make the needle big enough to stay in the machine. Schmetz needles were recomended for older machines, but I still had a problem.
This is now my primary machine and I am still getting re-acquainted with it, but I am so glad my Mom never traded it in for a newer machine.
This is now my primary machine and I am still getting re-acquainted with it, but I am so glad my Mom never traded it in for a newer machine.
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Tri-Cities, WA
Posts: 1,063
If I can ever make it through the stack in my garage, I've got one of these! No idea whether or not it works as of now. It's in a large cabinet, and I have another large cabinet, a small cabinet, a FW table, and a whole lot of suitcases to get past! Eventually the suitcases will migrate to the back and the Necchi to the front!!
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Supernovas and the Pfaff 260 are the most pleasing machines I've used but the Necchi has the edge for style.
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Join Date: Jul 2013
Location: Tri-Cities, WA
Posts: 1,063
ManicMike - I got three machines out of the garage room today and one ready to go in my car (for our church). That leaves the FW table in the way until I get a bracket mounted, then some fiddling to get the machine and it's large cabinet out where I can work on it! I also have a large cabinet that one of my Bernina 830's came in - can't decide whether or not to keep it. It isn't beautiful, but the machine can drop down out of the way and it has lots of drawers...decisions...!
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ManicMike - I got three machines out of the garage room today and one ready to go in my car (for our church). That leaves the FW table in the way until I get a bracket mounted, then some fiddling to get the machine and it's large cabinet out where I can work on it! I also have a large cabinet that one of my Bernina 830's came in - can't decide whether or not to keep it. It isn't beautiful, but the machine can drop down out of the way and it has lots of drawers...decisions...!
You should get rid of the Bernina cabinet just because you don't love it
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: North Central, NC
Posts: 2,741
I was just looking at one of these locally. Does anyone know if it is easy to find the cams and it does use standard 15 bobbins correct? You are right, I don't need it but they are so nifty looking and I love that round needle plate.
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