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Question posted by dumplin0829 on May 11th, 2013
Width Settings For 786 Serger
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Owner's Manual - Page 1
... fabrics, such as tricot.
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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 all the sewing jobs coming up in a home. We hope you thoroughly with your machine.
jersey and Helanca. With the built-in this book so...
Owner's Manual - Page 3
Essential Parts of Your Pfaff 78
17 16 15
14 13
2
17
14
o Face cover
1 Take-up lever
2 Thread guide
3 Top cover
4 Thread ...
(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 ...
Owner's Manual - Page 4
... of the machine and the plug at the other end of your foot and press down . The machines feature a ever... (10) under neath the balance wheel which serves to swing the motor to its operative position. Push plug A into the receptable on the face cover (see ill.).
4 Place the foot control within easy reach of the cord into wall outlet. The harder you have completed sewing...
Owner's Manual - Page 5
... the 000Dm case w th the boobin. To get at o too
'ts
On toe Pfaft 78. To engage :he sewing mechanism ader the
spindle, making sure that key A at its ocen .aton.
re'ro,e ... boboin toward the left .
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For bobbin winding, d'sengage the sewing Pass the toread around thread retaner stud
mechanism. Start the machine. The ooobin cannot tab out as long as iatec. turning stop motion ...
Owner's Manual - Page 6
Release the atcn and press against the boobin case until the needle is at ts highest point. until you hear it snap into the machine turn the balance wnee! As /)U Pu the :hread. the ocbb-t should tate clockwse 4 Leave abDut three uches of thread hang:na from te boobin onse
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Owner's Manual - Page 7
... by pulling out and swing ing up the lever on the back of the Pfaff 79 for ordinary sewing operations, push the workplate onto the tree arm as far as illustrated:
Please note that thread cannot unwind. 1
To enlarge the sewing area of the machine (2) until it snaps into the hole in Fig.2).
Owner's Manual - Page 8
.... Always turn . Turn the balance wheel toward you do this, check to draw up the bobbin thread, hold the needle thread and lower the sewing foot. Fundamentals of Machine Operation
Turn Stitch control (6) clockwise (as indicated by operating the presser bar lifter (21) on the back of the desired stitch is tightened...
Owner's Manual - Page 9
... sewing operations, set the stitcn enath control on page 3. you
press,
the
faster
the
machine
will
To sew in reverse or bacictack the end of a seam, simply press down the pedai. For zigzag sewing,... Then regu'ate me stitcn Nldth by pusnirg stitcn width control (18) toward the left -hand side of the slot.
Jarious zigzag sewing operations are dis -,
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nosneo :o be Qoposite ...
Owner's Manual - Page 10
... (see Figs. 1 & 2). Use System 130 R needles only. For ordinary sewing operations. To change the needle, bring the needle to be set correctly if a slight re sistance has to its shank faces :oward the back. Turn this screw right (with your machine contairs several sewing feet for a looser ten sion. the upper tension should be...
Owner's Manual - Page 11
...posite 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 placing them in ...sewing foot thumb screw 116).
Trim the threads and start stitching back and forth across the hole in the unworn area around the hole.
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'--'. ceed as indicated by simply turning the thumb screw on needle set...
Owner's Manual - Page 13
...
Pfaff 79
Plaff 78 23
Draw the... cording,
use zigzag stitches. To produce an elastic hem on page 25. Set the stitch width, as illustrated. Select the twin needle gauge and the size of the filler... 3 to 4 straight stitches to lead each thread between cording
seams made with the ordinary sewing foot
is well filled with 7 grooves for needle distances of tension discs (see ill.), ...
Owner's Manual - Page 14
...tension.
Slightly in F:g 3
Zà I___________ 18
2 Never change the stitch width setting unless :ne needle s outside the fanric. Use a thread which s not too ...guiding the materiat so that the sing needle enters the needle holes it nas made n the fabric previous'y. Use transaarent sewing cot No. 93-100179-CO
Shtcn length: 2 'o 25
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Owner's Manual - Page 15
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Larger holes can be patched quickly.
Set the stitch length control on 0.5" and the stitch width control at the extreme left of the patch.
Set the stitch length control on the wrong side...ordinary sewing foot.
Then turn the fabric so that of the fabric.
Stich width: medium. of its slot and sew over its grain to zigzag-stitch symbol. At the corners, stop the machine ...
Owner's Manual - Page 17
... width to Suit the size of the design and draw the bob bin thread up through both thread ends and start your monogram dimensional quality, embroider the outlines twice.
Button Sewing
Attach transparent sewing foot No. 93-100179-00.
Raise the needle, but retain the foot in its right position and drop the machine...
Owner's Manual - Page 19
... by moving con trol (18) to blindstitch symbol (see ill.). The stitch width recommended for decorative-stitch sewing, turn control (6 clockwise (as illustrated (1). Reduce the needle thread tension by ...under the sewing foot so that the needle takes the left stitch exactly in the folaed edge, catching merely one grade. o set inc macnine for the various utility-stitch sewing operations is ...
Owner's Manual - Page 20
... interlocked outside the fabric, the fabric edge is highly elastic. Maximum sttcn length 0.5 Set stitch width lever (18) for sewing Knit underwear and finishing the edges of the fabric. Attach transparent sewing foot No. 93-100 179-00 or ordinary sewing foot No. 93-838 954-00. Fcid the fabric along the ne which oins...
Owner's Manual - Page 22
... Nut be to see page 34)
Stitch ength 1
Stitch width: maximum
Lay the elastic or the fabric edge. Then sew the stretched elastic down with the foided edge of the elastic...
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"S. Maximum stitch length: 0.5 Simply place 00th cieces under the sewing
Stitcn width maximum
foot so tnat the abutted edges are centemd under the needle and ion Them as illustrated.
side ...
Owner's Manual - Page 23
....
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/. Some of the designs that can be used for insertirg patches with the machine set as is used to the symbol of the hem (see page 34).
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Apply transparent sewing '7 foot No. 93-100 179-00. Stitch length: 0.5
Stitch width: minimum
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838 954
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foot. using threads in Knit Underwear
Ornamental Seams
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Owner's Manual - Page 24
... of the Pfaff 78, ti the machine back. lpemoVe the face cover as nstructed on regular ceaning and proper oiling. To get at ed and centerl. I,
44
Machine Care Longevity and smooth machine performance are dependent ...pins slide nto the socket slots. Piaff 78
The other oiling points in the macnine are only a few oiling points
The raceway in the sewing hook is the most important oiling point. ...
Owner's Manual - Page 25
...
Cording
.
.
.
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
.
3
Flat Felled Seams
21
Foot Control
5
Foreword
1
Fundamentals of the Pfaff 79...
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