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Owner's Manual - Page 1
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CPFAFFI 78
CPFAFFi 79
Instructions
CPFAFFi 78 and 79
Decorative Stitch Zigzag Sewing Machine
Foreword
''our new Pfaff sewing machine will always enjoy sewing with your Pfaff.
PFAFF- Haushaltmaschinen GmbH Karisruhe-Durlach We suggest that you will enable you thoroughly with all the sewing jobs coming up in decorative stitch mechanism you at any sewing problems, please do...
Owner's Manual - Page 2
...40 40 30 - 50
Decorative stitching
Embroidery and
30
darning thread
50
I Silver-gold thread Silver thread
70
Size
80 70 - 80 70 - 80
Needle Point Style
70 - 80
80 - 90
90 - 100...
90 -100
90 - Cotton
Cotton Cotton or linen Linen - Needle and Thread Chart
Type of Fabric
Bed linen Fine linen Muslin
Thread Type
Cotton
Dress fabrics, such as brocade satin ottoman, taffeta, georgette,...
Owner's Manual - Page 3
... cover
14 Transverse rotary hook
(below bedplate)
15 Needle plate
16 Sewing foot thumb screw
17 Light switch
18 Stitch width control
19 Needle position lever
20 Needle thread tension
21 Presser bar lifter
(on back of machine arm)
22 Needle set screw
23 Sewing foot
0 Face cover 1 Take-up lever 2 Thread guide 3 Top cover 4 Thread retainer stud 5 Spool pins 6 Stitch control 7 Bobbin...
Owner's Manual - Page 5
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For bobbin winding, d'sengage the sewing Pass the toread around thread retaner stud
mechanism. Unci re 'eas ng the atch the ernoty 000Dm aroos cur
On the Pfaff 79. When the bobbin is full, it...o too
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On toe Pfaft 78. Hold balance wheel 8) wnile 2) in the bobbin isee ill.). To engage :he sewing mechanism ader the
spindle, making sure that key A at its ocen .aton.
Start the machine.
Owner's Manual - Page 7
... you do this, hold on to back.
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---- Thread the needle from front to the spool so
that the thread is pressed against the machine base until the locking stud snaps into place (3).
Then ock it will go (1).
1
To enlarge the sewing area of the Pfaff 79 for ordinary sewing operations, push the workplate onto the tree arm...
Owner's Manual - Page 10
... is set at about 5. needle and bobbin threads interlock in the center of the needle clamp.
This tension is no need to be overcome when pulling the thread. the upper tension should be set correctly if a slight re sistance has to adjust the bobbin thread tension. To change the needle, bring the needle to your thumo nail) for a tighter tension, or left for sewing synthetic...
Owner's Manual - Page 11
... needle thread should breaK, the upper tension is dropped by darn ing foot No. 93-102 826-91, attaching it return to be performed. On tne Pfatf 78, this screw in sewing direction. To raise the machine feed, press th s lever down siantwise, as o iois:
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Replace the ordinary sewing toot by simply turning the thumb screw on needle set...
Owner's Manual - Page 13
...of tension discs (see ill.), making sure that the scroll is approx. Cording is used .
inch. Cording foot No. 93-847 671-00, with 3 grooves is made with two needle threads. Set the stitch width, as instructed ... To produce an elastic hem on page 25. Select the twin needle gauge and the size of the foot. Pfaff 79
Plaff 78 23 Draw the fabric into the hemmer scroll w'th your right ...
Owner's Manual - Page 14
... along the nemmed edge of the faoric tsee ill.i by guiding the materiat so that the sing needle enters the needle holes it nas made n the fabric previous'y.
urn tne fabr:c by turning stitch length control ill), as illustrated in crease the needle thread tension. Use transaarent sewing cot No. 93-100179-CO
Shtcn length: 2 'o 25
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Owner's Manual - Page 15
... the corners, stop the machine with
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Make sure the the fabric and will cover the
needle takes one stitch the other over its slot and sew over first seam.
Elastic materials are stitched twice (see below)
To overcast the edges weight fabrics, set the mum stitch width.
Set the stitch length control...
Owner's Manual - Page 19
...Pinnacle" seam "Lamp-shade" seam
Sewing terry cloth, nserting patches, sewing stockings with zigzag stitches before it is hemmed.
Reduce the needle thread tension by moving con trol (18) ...thread, attaching lace edging, couching. The stitch width is regulated by one fabric yarn. o set inc macnine for the various utility-stitch sewing operations is indicated in the respective instructions...
Owner's Manual - Page 20
... the needle alternately tak ing one on lin gerie or garments made of the fabric. Turn stitch control (6) to blindstitch symbol. Turn stitch control (6) to
the symbol of the fabric. As the threads are interlocked outside the fabric, the fabric edge is highly elastic.
Maximum sttcn length 0.5 Set stitch width lever (18) for sewing...
Owner's Manual - Page 23
... also be made are illustrated on page 16.
using threads in Knit Underwear
Ornamental Seams
1333 954
Attach the ordinary sewing foot,
Turn stitch control (6) to the symbol of...machine set as indicated above and stitch the raw
edge of the designs that can be used to suit the desired pattern.
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-I'- When sewing synthetic stretch fabrics, please note the instructions...
Owner's Manual - Page 24
... the socket slots. To change the light bulb, remove the face cover by pulflng it in the sewing hook is the most important oiling point. From time to time.
put a drop of the Pfaff 78, ti the machine back. sIlo tip d nb ot c, Then push against the face cover until
snaps into the nook...
Owner's Manual - Page 25
... the Needle
17
Changing the Needle Position . .
31
Changing the Sewing Foot . . .
17
Cleaning
46
Cording
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23
Darning
18
Darning Foot
18
Darning Rips
39
Drawing Up the Bobbin Thread .
12
Dropping the Machine Feed . .
18
Electrical Equipment
4
Engaging and Disengaging the
Sewing Mechanism
7
Essential Parts of the Pfaff 78 . .
2
Essential Parts of the Pfaff 79...
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