Bernina, Pressure Foot UP when threading A MUST???
#101
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Missouri
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When I bought my Bernina 180E the dealer said to clip the thread at the spool and pull the thread out from the needle.
Never pull the thread out from the spool. He said it leaves lint
in the machine from the thread. When doing machine embroidery you may change threads 15-20 times a design.
Never pull the thread out from the spool. He said it leaves lint
in the machine from the thread. When doing machine embroidery you may change threads 15-20 times a design.
#103
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Guston KY
Posts: 36
I have threaded my bernina with the pressure foot down but the stiching wasn't good. I had to rethread with the foot up and it did fine. I never had to have it serviced because of this, but I guess it could mess up the timing if you constantly did it wrong.
#105
Originally Posted by ggreenridley
I have always threaded with the pressure foot up. I do not know if it makes a difference.
#106
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Central Texas
Posts: 180
Good grief! I have been sewing for some 40 years and never heard this advice re threading my machine with the presser foot up! Wow! Reading as much as I have time for on this board had given me soooo many valuable tips! Thanks a million million times everyone!
#107
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Posts: 291
Many new machines of today should be threaded with the needle bar up so the tension discs are open for the thread to get aligned in the tension. Yes, you can damage your machine because when trying to sew without the thread in the tensions you cause the bobbin thread to be pulled so hard that the bobbin gets dislodged and causes needle breakage and bad gouges on your bobbin case which in turn causes more problems when trying to get good quality stitches. If the needle breaks with enough pressure on the needle bar, you can throw the machine out of time. Machines of today are not like the machines of yesteryear. They do many more things than just straight and zig-zag stitching, so have to be so precise to do each task. Also always try to pull your thread out from the needle when changing threads so you don't pull lint up into your tensions. Just a trick to keep the tensions clean.
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Suzy
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