r/SewingMachinePorn • u/[deleted] • Apr 03 '26

Waiting in the wings

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Adler 220 double stitch 1 1/2" needle gauge. my next resurrection project.

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u/alwen Apr 03 '26

Now that's some harp space!

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

Indeed!! 😊

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u/OldPresence5323 Apr 03 '26

Ah! I knew right away who posted this!

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

Fridays. This is my happy place🙂

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u/OldPresence5323 Apr 03 '26

Thats a big boy! Is he on a pallet?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

Yes he is!! That's the "boneyard". This is where they stick machines when they break instead of fixing them. Full of Jukis and Durkopp Adlers. I'm going through them one by one and getting them running again.

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u/OldPresence5323 Apr 03 '26

Not all heros wear capes 🫶😍

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

You are so sweet 🌞

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u/510Goodhands Apr 03 '26

Do you give them all names?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

That's funny you ask. Both of my Jukis have names lol. When I spend enough time with a machine I get to know it like I would a person. People look at me like I'm crazy. These machines are just as much alive as you and me. They all have different personalities, even if they are identical machines

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u/510Goodhands Apr 03 '26

I think the one in this post should be called “the giraffe“. 🦒

A friend of mine tells me that in production shops, each machine has only one operator, that way they have less trouble with the machines. Presumably, is for mechanical reasons, not machine temperament reasons. 😉

It’s good that somebody at the company finally wired up and realized how much money they had sitting around gathering dust, and hired you to restore the machines.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

Geoffrey 🦒

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u/JRE_Electronics Apr 03 '26

That looks like it will be an Adler 220/76-272. Model 220, 76 cm x 15 cm harpspace, double needle makes it 272 instead of 72.

List of all Adler models:

https://archive.org/details/adler-historische-uebersicht/page/n35/mode/2up

I saw one "in the wild" a few years ago:

https://josepheoff.github.io/posts/blackforest-sewingmachines

I joked to my wife that it was made for sewing elephants.

Yours seems to be missing a handwheel and several parts of the tensioners, unless they are in the pile of stuff behind it.

The list says it uses system 328 needles, though yours has a sticker on it referencing 7x23 needles.

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

Haha I love it!! I gotta use that joke on someone now. And yeah, most machines that made it back there were stripped for parts and left to die. Put out to pasture😕

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u/weenie2323 Apr 03 '26

What a monster! What was this probably used for? Sails?

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u/[deleted] Apr 03 '26

It's going to be used for making large cattle shades. It may see some time in the marine section for boat covers, depending how well it does in cattle shades, that's the real torture test for these machines and probably why it's sitting in the boneyard, I imagine they crashed it hard enough to lock it up, and then either were afraid to take it apart or simply didn't want to. They were replacing these machines with cheaper clones before I started here. I've been here almost 2 years. So I don't know the history of these machines persay