| We found this machine at an auction house and took it home. It's heavy! There's 8-1/2" between the needle and the pillar, wider than most machines; just average height, though. |
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| What intrigued us about this machine is that it has two tension mechanisms. Three, actually; when we got it home and got a manual for it, turns out that the knob below the two with tension disks is where the thread take-up spring should be. See that loop of thread to the left of the bottom knob? That's where the check spring should be, we think (manual repro is too small and grainy to see detail in the pix). It's not there, so we'll have to figure out how it's supposed to work and fashion one. |
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| The machine is labelled "Made in Germany." I don't know much about the history of Domestic brand sewing machines, but just looking at this machine, there's a lot of vintage Pfaff in this one. The bobbin case, for instance, is the same one that a Pfaff 130 uses. And it's got a side-slide plate but a front-load bobbin case, making it impossible to get the bobbin in and out without raising the machine--just like a 130. |
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More later on this one! |
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