This could be disconnected and reconnected again with the mounting brackets from Favta. However, in these motors there is a capacitor that is connected to the casing on one end and to the strator on the other end. Those brackets screwed into the same positions on the strator as the casing, so potentially I could just use one of the standard motors here. Upon a closer inspection I realised that those were actually standard motors like Sew-Tric or Hillman, only taken out of their housing and placed into specially designed mounting brackets. The wire broke when I just looked at it, and I wasn’t about to connect this up to the mains to see whether it would catch fire or merely smoke. If this doesn’t look too bad to you, consider that all the insulation was saturated with oil, including the insulation on the coils of the strator. The seller had noted that motors needed work but I didn’t expect it to mean “they need replacing”. The motorīoth motors were burned out and rusty beyond any use, or at least I wasn’t going to use them. I bought two Favtas on eBay – they were sold together and needed work, so the idea was to get one working machine out of two. In the UK it was often badged for Cresta, just like mine here (I added “Favta” myself). They developed three variants of this machine: straight stitch, zig-zag and automatic (with interchangeable cams). A thousand pounds! But it did come with 25 years of warranty, and you don’t see that every day.įavta is – was – a lesser known Swiss company that was quickly sold off (see Needlbar for details). This was a really expensive little thing too – I found a receipt in the box: £51-9 paid in 1963, translating to £1000 today. This is a lovely little machine that is only slightly larger than the Featherweight, but it doesn’t just do straight stitch but also zig-zag and fancy stitches with cams, it’s got a good free arm and a large working table.
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