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 ☺️
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
