Originally Posted by
miriam
Those old Pfaff industrial machines are very nice to use. I used one with way too heavy canvas - I bent the needle bar.
Really??? How heavy are we talking? That's quite an achievement Miriam! Not that I'm guessing I'll be putting it to the heavy canvas test... however, the guy I bought it from did use it to make blinds and it was full of all this melted PVC/latex stuff that was horrible to clean out. LSMG said that's what happens when you sew it at high speeds. But he also said he thought they were bulletproof - I'll have to tell him your bent needlebar story
