I can not belive I got this for $10.00
11-12-2014, 07:44 AM
#11
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Corpus Christi, Tx.
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I would keep the whole shebang. It's beautiful! I love my 401 in the cabinet. I can put it down into the storage and put my other machine on top for extra space but I don't. And as you know it comes with storage. They never have good prices like that here. You never know when you need backup. My backup is now just about my everything. It sews a mean jean 6 layer. I would be doing everything I could and you may want to check it out on Youtube. Wouldn't be surprised if they have videos for a Pfaff. I'm sure they do.
11-12-2014, 08:46 PM
#13
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Calif. Desert
Posts: 239
I just got a Pfaff 230 and I am dying to try it out. I already love it just looking at it and I named him Karl! He will be my next project. He is so heavy in a cabinet that I have to have help moving it. I hope he sews as good as he looks, I will post pictures as soon as I get him up and running. I do have the book and wheel and extra bobbins.
Ethel
Ethel
11-13-2014, 06:49 PM
#18
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Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Lafayette, TN
Posts: 1,204
I had a Pfaff (older one for a few months, and never could get it to sew satisfactorily for me); post a picture of the bobbins you need and I'll check my extra junk stuff. PM me. Oh, and congratulations on a wonderful buy. It is beautiful.
11-13-2014, 09:51 PM
#20
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Join Date: May 2010
Location: Round Rock,Texas
Posts: 6,135
Originally Posted by manicmike
After a quick search, Pfaff bobbins are unique to Pfaffs. You'll possibly have to order them, but they fit 213 to 280 according to eBay sellers (I checked a couple) and I imagine 300 series would be the same (300s are the same machine but free arm version).
My friend Amelia (QB name is Frudemoo) sold one for me. When she checked it so she could demonstrate it, I got a call from her. She said she really really wanted to keep it as her #1 machine and I had to do a lot of talking to get her to let go of it!
She's a couture dress maker, incidentally and had tested it sewing silk etc. I found her a Pfaff 230 as a replacement and she loves it. She compared it with her Bernina 640-2 favorit and said it was impossible to pick a winner.
You can look up the machine's serial number for the exact year of manufacture. I haven't the site bookmarked but it was easy enough to find.
My friend Amelia (QB name is Frudemoo) sold one for me. When she checked it so she could demonstrate it, I got a call from her. She said she really really wanted to keep it as her #1 machine and I had to do a lot of talking to get her to let go of it!
She's a couture dress maker, incidentally and had tested it sewing silk etc. I found her a Pfaff 230 as a replacement and she loves it. She compared it with her Bernina 640-2 favorit and said it was impossible to pick a winner.
You can look up the machine's serial number for the exact year of manufacture. I haven't the site bookmarked but it was easy enough to find.
Sharon in Texas
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