Daniel Bohrer#AntiqueSewingMachine adventures: two people and a Pfaff 130 just fit into the tiny elevator…
(CN: selfie, eye contact)
(CN: selfie, eye contact)
This was the sweet spot between "I want this because the Pfaff 130 can do zigzag stitches unlike my Pfaff 30" and "seller needs to downsize their sewing machine collection and the listing has already been active for 10 months"
Finally got around to the old Pfaff 130. The handwheel didn't move a lot, no wonder with all those threads stuck in the gears under the bobbin… Disassembly, cleaning up all the caked oil, threads and lint with WD40, re-assembly, and testing for correct stitch timing was the hardest part (and I might have been the first person since its 1942 inception to do that…). The other parts only needed a bit of oil, and now it purrs like a cat again ☺️
btw, all 15 kg of this ⬆️ fit nicely into my biggest #Brompton bag. And the luggage block on the front didn't even complain, even though I had trouble carrying the bag to the bike… 😅 (And I added another luggage strap between the bag handle and the steerer tube for safety.)
One more reason why I call the Brompton my "small cargo bike"; I think it has carried more cast-iron machinery to date than my city bike and my large Bakfiets cargo bike combined.
#carryShitOlympics
One more reason why I call the Brompton my "small cargo bike"; I think it has carried more cast-iron machinery to date than my city bike and my large Bakfiets cargo bike combined.
#carryShitOlympics
The Pfaff sewing machine came with an oak cabinet (which I still want to re-finish), but its metal roller feet were in danger of chewing up my nice wooden living room floor. They were also no longer rolling as well from all the lint and threads collected inside them, so the feet were promptly de-rollered, and, after a bit of lathe practise, the resulting cavity was plugged up with scraps of oak and felt pads.
#woodworking
#woodworking
thorsten@daniel_bohrer Maximum weight of the front carrier block is 10 kg. But what's the f...
Axel 🚴😷🐧🐪⌨ | #WeAreNatenom@tbachner: I'm sure, @daniel_bohrer knows. 🙂
Had 17kg of groceries in a Brompton T bag already and the block still seems fine after like 10 years. (I just avoid hard bumps like curbstones in such cases and don't drive that fast. 😇)
PalmAndNeedle@tbachner @daniel_bohrer I stopped counting how many times I've exceeded that so long ago...
kernpanik 🐾 🕊️ ☮ 🖖@daniel_bohrer We just rescued a machine like this one from the street. :)
@kernpanik wheeee :) have fun with it! this is already my second one :D From my experience they're pretty unbreakable
@kernpanik ooooh, is this one of the earlier models? mine is a 30 and the other is a 130
@daniel_bohrer I must confess I haven't checked its age or anything yet. It was just standing on the side of our street, waiting to be taken away as household trash the next morning. So we rescued it. :)
@kernpanik the serial number is usually somewhere on the front, near the bobbin winder, or inset into the frame below the furniture. Then you look it up in this table: https://ismacs.net/pfaff/pfaff_manufacture_dates.html
@daniel_bohrer That drive belt(?) is very intriguing. Are those wire crimps fitting into grooves in the sprockets?
@daniel_bohrer Huh... fascinating. Never seen that before. Is that one continuous thread?
@PalmAndNeedle two strings; the ends are apparently fixed by the crimps
@daniel_bohrer Duh, yeah 
Has to be two strings, otherwise it would foul on the sprockets. Modular, cheap components materials. I like it
Has to be two strings, otherwise it would foul on the sprockets. Modular, cheap components materials. I like it