Monthly Archives: December 2023

3D Printing, Sewing Machines, VSM Repair

Pfaff Power Switches coming back!

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I alluded to this in my previous post.  A number of years ago, the power switches for the Pfaff 1222 type machines went “NLA” or No Longer Available.  As usually happens, it takes a while for existing stock to disappear so many of us didn’t know until it was too late.  Around the middle of 2020, it finally happened.   Not long after my first order went unfilled, I started playing with the idea of rebuilding the switches.  The reason being that it’s a single piece of (sometimes 40+ year old) injection molded plastic that fails.  Every single time. Could it be 3D printed? After all, several years ago, I’d determined that the rest of the switch is high quality, modular and relatively easy to rebuild. In October of 2020, I received 4 Pfaff 1222 machines in for service and you guessed it, there was a broken switch among them and I had no more switches in stock.

After a series of unfortunate (family/personal) events that Fall, I finally began on Christmas Day 2020, and by a couple of days into the New Year, I had a working design and it took me about 15 minutes to disassemble the machine, disassemble the unnecessarily complex switch, replace the defective part, reassemble the switch and the machine.   This could be a viable solution! The problem was Continue reading Pfaff Power Switches coming back! →

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October’s Obsession

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As I mentioned in the last post, in October I became obsessed.  All summer and throughout the entire Tour de Fleece it felt like I was in crisis mode. Then as Fall descended, I began working on things outstanding.  I probably put in a couple of hundred hours at various computers. I needed a break from all of the adulting.  In the back of my mind, there were so many craft projects started and unfinished.  This is something I don’t often do.  I’m largely a serial crafter and often don’t have more than a home project and a travel project on the go at once.

When I started the Tour de Fleece this year – before all the drama started – I had 5 PHDs (Projects Half Done) of which 3 qualified as UFOs.  During the tour, I finished 2 of the projects, turned one UFO into 2 PHDs and one abandoned project, and started one new project.  Here’s what the “To do list” looked like at the end of the tour: Continue reading October’s Obsession →

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the change in the air

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By the end of August, I was starting to feel a little persecuted by all the water problems and exhausted by self-imposed deadlines.  We needed a break.

The last week of August was a staycation (The vacation fund having been decimated for many years to come thanks to the house) that started with replacing that dishwasher.  We made a day-trip to Jasper on the 31st and I took about 140 photos in the few hours we were in the park.  Mostly of waterfalls and such.   Additionally, I had the opportunity to shoot the night before which was the Perigee Blue Supermoon.  It was marginally successful.  That’s the photo I used for the header in the last post.

The trip to Jasper was a fast one.  We arrived after lunch Continue reading the change in the air →