Originally Posted by gollytwo
I put my cones in an empty coffee can. Have a large safety pin taped to the rear of my machine (behind where a spool would go) and I feed the thread thru the pin's hole before doing the machine threading.
I had no luck at all with various stands and I had 3 different ones.
Sounds like 'the' solution. I have a rainbow stash of thread cones, 30 years old, from our defunct sewing factory. Stands have been partially successful.