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2012 Vintage Elna Sewing Machines

Vintage Elna 2012 Sewing Machines Are Compact And Portable

The very first Elna sewing machine and the Elnapress were designed as well as manufactured in Geneva, Switzerland. This was in the year 1934. The very first Elna was designed by a refugee Dr. Ramon Casas. The designs by Dr. Casas were produced and the 2012 vintage Elna sewing machines came out. These elna sewing machines are compact & portable. These are electric sewing machines with a free arm.

The reason why most of the vintage Elna sewing machines do not have a type number is because they were originally called TAVARO - type Elna. It was only later that the Elna grew out to the brand name by itself. The Elna 1 is among the first vintage elna sewing machines. These were made in three series. They had come with several modifications. The first series can been made out by the piece of leather string which is screwed in the counterpart of the knee-lever. This leather string was made to stop the flywheel when you take your knee off from the lever. You can adjust the clamp that holds the piece of leather string. There is a second screw – button which is next to the screw-button that is meant to lock the stitch length lever. This second screw button in vintage elna sewing machines operates a small friction brake on the motor axis. This way the motor will turn very slowly while the elna sewing machine is making embroideries. Hence a pretty heavy motor was applied. So you will be able to see a bulge on the motor-housing. This is meant to give way to one of the brush holders.

The vintage elna sewing machines 2012 have a round lid which is above the fly-wheel. This must be opened in order to reach the crankshaft for lubrication with gearbox oil. The first series had a nickel plated lid. The second series of the Elna 1 has a different type of motor and the friction brake is absent. The last series of the Elna 1 does not have the adjustable leather string fly-wheel brake. It uses an aluminium crankshaft cover. The case of the first series of Elna 1 was painted in glossy black lacqery. It came with a crackle effect. It also had a leather carrying handle. The second series in Elna 1 vintage Elna sewing machines had the same case, but it had a dark grey/green crinkle lacquery. This is also used in the later elna sewing machine models. The last series of Elna 1 had a case with a metal handle covered in plastic. The closing mechanism was also much better & highly improved.

The various vintage elna sewing machines are the Supermatic 1, the Star SU, the Lotus SP and TSP, the SU Air Electronic, the Stella SP Air Electronic, and the Elna Junior series 2.

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