Originally Posted by
ghostrider
If it's so very important to put the presser foot down and lower the needle when your machine is not being used, why isn't that mentioned in the owner's manual anywhere? All mine says is to unplug the machine when not in use. No mention of anything else whatsoever. And if you all learned to do that in Home Ec, wasn't that on purely mechanical machines? Not electronic or computerized? Just curious.
The manuals are a guide line, and not very good many times. Many of them don't even show you how to wind a bobbin properly so it is one of the first things I teach my pupils. Sam my sewing machine man taught me and as he is an expert in vintage and reconditioning machines I take his word as gospel. Because he taught me to do it on the older machines I have always done it on my expensive Elna machine as to me it makes sense.