Tag: sewing

Pfaff 1222E sewing machine repair

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My beloved Pfaff 1222E sewing machine started to slow down every few stitches. I was able to hear the motor noise, when it had to choke through that position.

The Giraffe investigated the machine and found a crack in the Cam Stack Gear (calls in German <<Kurvenblock>>). The wider distance between the two tooth caused by the crack, was the cause of the problem.

Thankfully, a specialised sewing store was able to order a spear part, so I managed to replace the broken gear.
…Really, this is simply gorgeous! The machine is about 35 years old, still works AND YOU STILL CAN GET SPARE PARTS!
No words about what I’m thinking about machines from China…Nihao!

To slip out the gear block, you have to lift slightly the whole automatic mechanism module. To do this, you maybe have to remove the screw (16). During the re-assembly, carefully make sure the marked splints in the metal bars in the picture below found their correct positions.

SewRep4

Update:

The red marked 4 screws are holding the whole assembly down. After loosen them you have to sligtly lift the whole assembly. Then remove the  screw indicated by the green arrow, to remove the stoper thingy. The gear should slide from the shaft afterwards.
However, bringing all together is a little bit fiddly!!
In the sketch above the parts which should match up are highlighted.
You may want to use a torch to locate the marked metal rods under the assembly.

The medieval shirt

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For a knight tournament, I decided to sew adequate cloths…namely a shirt and trousers.

On the internet I found a few simple basic templates for my project:

I took the shirt idea from [Corvin] http://home.arcor.de/Warlock0/Leitfaden%20zur%20ersten%20Gewandung.pdf, on page 7 and the trousers from here: http://www.weltdeslarp.de/jalindro/hose.html.

The fabrics I found in a local branch of a big Swedish furniture store. They offer a lot of different fabrics,  charged by weight(!), self service and reasonable priced. For the shirt I found a linen looking cotton fabric and for the trousers….yes I think it’s proposed for curtains, but looks also great for medieval trousers.

 

BackPackBag…or the Rucksack extension

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The drawback of going somewhere by motorbike is the whole protective clothes you have to wear. Reaching the target place you find often a place where you can store you stuff, buts what’s about the shoes? Usually you don’t like to walk around the whole day, wearing your boots because they are much likely not that comfortable. I like to have a pair of low shoes at mine, but for to carry them it’s most likely no space inside my rucksack. Further, they might be dirty and so you don’t like put them inside your bag much more.

My solution for this issue is a BackPackBag…a bag which you can mount to the back of you backpack.

The victim for this project was an old and defective rain jacket. The blue belt was from an old shopping bag, so the only part I had to buy was the Velcro.