Hi folks,
I am asking this question on behalf of a kite building buddy on another forum we both belong to. I have also asked the same question on the 'We fix it' group but have had no replies yet so thought I would ask here too.
He has a Pfaff 1215 (very similar to the Pfaff 1222 apparently) that has developed a problem when winding bobbins. From what he says the bobbin goes around with no thread but as soon as it starts to wind on thread it stops turning.
My experience tells me that this is something simple and on most machines I have seen there is a rubber wheel that makes contact with the hand wheel in some way or another and that the wheels are prone to wearing down (just like tires on a car). His mechanism is different to the one on my Pfaff 1119 so I just want to check that my assumption is correct. Is this in fact the case on the 1215/1222 machines and if so does anyone have any tips/directions on how he goes about the repair? I have read online that certain Pfaff's had an unusual method for driving the bobbin winding spindle but I could be certain whether this applied to the 1215/1222 series or not.
I would look at it for him but he lives in the USA and I am in Canada and it's a bit far to travel for a 10 minute job ;-) .
Thanks for any help.