I have an amazing aunt (well, my fathers aunt, but I claim her). Every once in a while, she contacts me about a family heirloom. Well, she knows exactly what I do for kicks and giggles, and when she realized her family had quite a few of these sitting around, she immediately contacted me and asked if I wanted one.
My first thought was "it's the wrong family", but it didn't take much to twist my arm. Truthfully, I was twisting my own arm.
I ran and grabbed it.
It is a Pfaff 130. The machine itself is in surprisingly excellent shape. It doesn't rotate very well right now completely around, which indicates that something is likely bent inside, or it just needs a good cleaning. The belt has disintegrated, but other than that, it appears to be well taken care of as there's not a spot of rust on it. Kudos to that side of the family for taking such good care of their machines.
First things first, I need to try to identify this a little more than just using the model number off the front, because they were made for quite a while. I found the serial number on the inside, "5 123 825" :
A not-as-easy-as-expected search (took a few manipulations of key words, but that is all), revealed a page out there where Brenda Dean of ISMACS' locale released a basic chart
https://ismacs.net/pfaff/pfaff_manufacture_dates.html
And that tells me precisely that my new toy was manufactured in 1954.
Now I can go through this thing, do a proper cleaning (and get a belt given #305.076.08, supposedly a 5mmx30mm belt with timing teeth, but I'm struggling to find it), and have this machine working. The motor and electrical are good to go!
This will let me sew mild leathers for car seats, canvas for carrying cases, etc. I'm excited for this new toy!
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