Originally Posted by
meow meow
Hey Joe love the bag but I especially like the sewing machine. Its funny you shared this today as yesterday my cousin came in with two machines for me to look at. An old dusty singer that she got for $3.00 dh gonna clean and see if it works like likes its all together just needs new cords. The other macine is a very clean blacl shiny beautiful Aldean in a case. She got that for $15.00 and the man told her that it had tension problems. She took it home and attempted to sew on it(%$#GGKKH) you don't know what I want to say there as she knows absolutely nothing about machines. She said that it would pull the fabric thread realllllllllyyyyyy tight and she set the tension at 0. Hopefully my dh will be able to figure it out. I think I would really like to purchase it from her but i AM SURE she won't be asking no $15.00 for it and she wants her granddaughter to have it to play with ($%mgkog%&&gbhn&%).
My ALDENS also had upper tension problems. I had the tension apart several times, cleaned it sanitary, and reinstalled it only to have the same problems. Too much top tension. I finally found out the tension body wasn't inserted into the machine far enough and the presser foot lever wasn't releasing it. Fixed that which helped. But not enough.
I had the top tension cranked out as far as I though I could without the dial falling off the shaft and it was still puckering the fabric. So out of frustration I cranked in 1/4 more tension on the bobbin case and that seemed to fix it. So far, so good.
I'd give the cousins grand daughter the Singer. Simpler machine and easier to fix if she breaks it.
Joe