greywuuf

I have heard people mention several times that the old, Say ... 15 series machines are their favorite for their absolute straight stitch, and have further mentioned that a ZZ machine has the potential to be "not as straight" due to the possibility of the needle bar moving. Well I have run some stitches with my 306 and have found I am a bit dissapointed in it. I spent almost all of last night step by step going through the Service manual and checking (and adjusting when I absolutely had to ) the feed timing, the hook timing the end play the needle bar lift and everything thing else I thought I may have disturbed when I cleaned it. As near as I can tell and to the best of my ability it is "Spot on" even have new needles. I guess I need to drop back to some lighter thread and give it a fair shake, but compared to the VS machines I have this thing is kinda picky, and the bobbin side stiches are not straight... rather they lay in a slight angle IE: the top of the stitch goes in a hole about a thread width out of line with the Bottom of the stitch... no much... about a thread width, but it is visable and it bothers me. the 27 and several 128's I have all make perfect dead even straight stitches from Tiny to rather long.... dead straight and pretty, crappy old cotton thread from my moms old sewing box to #69 heavy Nylon. the 306..... not so much sure it ZZ's but for straight stitch.. an old machine gets my vote.

So in the opinion of the rather experienced forum here, Do i still have something off, or am I being to critical, or is that just they way it is ?

Dan