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Old 03-19-2025, 02:54 PM
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I realize this is an old post, but I just got the Turissa Ultramatic with a nice manual. I've scanned the German original, and am busy translating it to English. If I forget to share, please DM me.
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I have had a couple Turissa machines for years. I've never really used them though. I bought them because I liked the look and that is was Swiss. I have a greenone that takes cams and a tan one that doesn't. I've been looking far cams for a long time. At some time Turissa was taken over by Gritzner-Kayser in Germany. I've neer been able to find out if the design was theirs to begin with or if they took the Turissa design and ran with it. Some time ago I found that the cams (which are impossible to find for Turissa) are actually the same one used in Gritzners of the time. And Gritzner made the Kenmore 117-840 and 841 as well a one of the White machines. i can't remember which model. So for a long time I have been looking for cams for any of these machines. Well, the reason I am on here today is because I found a full set for Kenmore on Ebay today and bought them.Now I just need a manual so I know how to use them. lol. Mick
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Old 03-26-2025, 06:53 PM
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Originally Posted by QuinGold
I realize this is an old post, but I just got the Turissa Ultramatic with a nice manual. I've scanned the German original, and am busy translating it to English. If I forget to share, please DM me.
I think you will have to compress them. I don't know how large a pdf you can post here. I know it says you can post 5MB pictures, but that is not true - the images have to be smaller than 2MB.
I just looked and someone posted a pdf back in 2011 that was 3.89MB

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I uploaded the German and English PDFs to a Turissa thread on the Victorian Sweatshop as well as the European Vintage SM FB group's Files. I can't compress them to 5MB, so you will have to track them down there!

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Old 12-28-2025, 10:24 AM
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Default Turissa Ultramatic manual in German and English

I found a lovely Turissa Ultramatic with a mint German manual. Being a graphic designer, I scanned it and also translated it to English with da google.
I don't know if I can upload PDFs here, but the links to both manuals are in reply #14 on this Victorian Sweatshop thread.
https://www.victoriansweatshop.com/p...pid=1343438726

Thought I'd leave this here too as this thread shows up in searches.
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Originally Posted by QuinGold
I uploaded the German and English PDFs to a Turissa thread on the Victorian Sweatshop as well as the European Vintage SM FB group's Files. I can't compress them to 5MB, so you will have to track them down there!
The correct link to the PDFs is https://www.victoriansweatshop.com/p...4&forum=515763 The files are over 22MB
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