ArchaicArcane

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The piece above is for the spool pin on my Pfaff 130.

The Pin below is for my longarm. I'm looking for a way to recreate the spool holder in the larger size for the LA so I can use stack wound thread on it. My poor little brain is not feeling creative and all it's coming up with are plumbing bits or hose clamps, and I don't think that will work and the hose clamps will look like a... crap and likely bite me on a regular basis.

Any ideas anyone?

It's mainly this piece here that needs to be recreated. (Sorry about the gianormous pictures. The iPad doesn't give you an option to resize)

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manicmike

Looks like you could make one from scratch if you have a drill and a tap and die set. I know you're resourceful Tammi

Alternatively, when I was in high school Chemistry the clamps on the top of retort stands would be a perfect fit. I can find these pretty easily in Melbourne in collectors markets so you shouldn't have much trouble. Schools are full of them (do you know someone who works at a school?).

Rodney

Tammi, shooting you a pm.

miriam

At first I thought it was a needle bar with a clamp. Maybe a derelict can donate something.

manicmike

It's actually a really clever add-on that only Pfaffs seem to come with. My Pfaff 260PE had one of these but it was a clip on thing (even better, took about three seconds to attach). It stops thread from the big spools from twisting as you go, because they are supposed to be put on an industrial thread stand. I'm now thinking about buying one of those chemistry clamps for my own machines: A lot of the old thread I keep getting at garage sales is stack wound.

KenmoreRulesAll

I've got 3 Pfaffs with these but I have 0 of the L-shaped extensions for the spools.

ArchaicArcane

lol! Resourceful, maybe, these days it's brain power that's lacking. But the communal brain has definitely provided some things to try! Retort stands... I don't recall which ones those are, but Chem 20 which was my last chemistry class was about 24 years ago. I just so happen to have a retired chemistry teacher as a client though...he'll know where I could come by one.

ETA:
Ohh! That's a retort stand! We have Fischer Scientific here, they might be able to help.


Back at ya!

More likely one of the braces the shafts go through, but the one pin size has to be pretty specifc because I don't have the luxury of changing it out.

I agree! I've been eyeballing it trying to think of a way to do it on the LA for Probably more than 6 months. I -may- have snuck it onto other machines once or twice too. The one here is pretty quick, just a twist of the screw. The clip is faster? What does it look like?

I saw those L shape pins at SewingPartsOnline. There should be other places too...

KenmoreRulesAll

I'll take a look there, thank for the heads up.

quiltedsunshine

You can buy one from HandiQuilter for $35.00 plus shipping. https://www.handiquilter.com/shop/ca...e-accessories/ Very spendy!

ArchaicArcane

my pleasure!

I appreciate that link, thanks!
There are a couple of problems with that one though.
1. Shipping to Canada would probably kill me, and the HQ dealer here charges possibly 1.5 times what is on the site you posted for a bobbincase, so who knows how bad the thread holder would be. APQS has a couple of spool holders too and they're 2-3 times that, plus shipping. I just can't help thinking I can do this with stuff that's here, or at the hardware store.

2. The threads on the HQ one may not fit anything on Lucey.