Originally Posted by
Crossstitcher
Nancy, I looked it up too and it does look like a 15 case to me. How would you know the machine is out of time if you don't have the bobbin in and try to sew with the machine? Can you tell just by turning the hand wheel?
You can tell it's out of time if the needle is hitting the hook area or if the feed dogs won't play nicely. You don't necessarily need the bobbin case in for that.