Repair or replace pedal in an old pfaff 232 domestic machine

[Reposted from rec.crafts.textiles.sewing following a suggestion there]

Hi

I have an old pfaff 232 machine. Works very nicely, but the pedal has burned out. Looks like a resistor or capacitor has gotten too hot. Smells horrible. Still works a bit but starts sewing at the lowest speed as soon as I switch the power on.

Can this be fixed or easily replaced? The plug can be easily removed from the cord - I am just not sure whether the workings of these pedal are standard or model specific.

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Dave
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Did you contact Ron Anderson? He offered his expertise (and he *is* an expert) in response to your rec.crafts.textiles.sewing message.

"Ron Anderson" ron [at] a1sewingmachine dot com

HTH,

Beverly

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BEI Design

there's also a yahoo group "old pfaff pforum" specifically for the machines.Fairly active- you ask a question and there's plenty of opinion on how to fix and where to get parts. Pat

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patrick

Thanks for the tip! I found an answer in the archives of the old pfaff forum. Lots of useful stuff there (like manuals).

The burned out component in my foot pedal is just a capacitor. It is connected across the contacts to prevent the little sparks when the power is connected. This is just to prevent interference with other electrical items like TV's and radios. The problem is that when it burns out it conducts electricity and so the machine starts running.

The solution is to just cut the component out! Working fine again. Although I think it would be nice if these components had an earth...

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Dave

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