Originally Posted by
Mizkaki
Nancy,I'm going to try to answer this. Thread that needs to reel off horizontally means it needs to come off over the end cap of the spool no matter what position the spool is in. if the spool is on a horizontal pin it comes off of the end correctly. If it is on a vertical spool pin then it is being pulled off of the side of the spool. If the spool is a cone pulling from the side will result in the thread tension changing as you sew. I have attached 2 pictures of the gadget that I make to allow me to use cones (and other threads that need to reel off of the end of the spool) behind the machine. The cup that holds the cone must be positioned directly under the eyelet. Simply made from a suction cup, a chop stick and two tiny binder clips.Again, I ask is this clearer than mud?, Cathy[ATTACH=CONFIG]313077[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]313078[/ATTACH]
Cathy the set up you made works exactly the same as one of those black stand alone thread guides that sit behind your machine. The spool sits on a spool pin, is fed up to a thread guide, then over to your machine thread guides. That should cause any spool of thread, even the cones to work properly? That is what I did with the metallic thread, but it did cause a tension problem because of all the knots that formed underneath my work. Nancy