Originally Posted by BettyM
I have heard that you should never pull your thread back out of the tension disks when you are changing thread on your sewing machine, be it DSM or longarm. Is this true and what is the reason? I don't want to harm my machines, although I have been doing this with my Viking Rose ever since we bought it new in the 90's and have no problems with it after all these years.
I am overwhelmed by the number of problems I didn't know existed until I started reading the threads on this board! My Kenmore cam machine is more than 50 years old and has been in the shop twice, both times just to be cleaned well, and I've always pulled the thread out which ever way was easiest at the moment. My Janome is 12 years old, same thing. And I use Coats and Clark thread because I think it's wonderful and I can afford to buy it, so it isn't the use of high dollar thread that has made the difference. froggyintexas