Originally Posted by
J Miller
Somewhere I have one of those "sort of cellular looking, like a piece of corral or a dried up sponge." things. I didn't know what it was, but it's somewhere in our sewing stuff. Looks like a small 1/2" or so diameter washer made from something ivoryish in color. I'll see if I can find it.
I appreciate that Joe. The bits of the one I have here is the color of laundry lint, but I doubt that's the color it started out.
Been sewing on the Commodore today, screwed up my bag bottoms so I might as well do something else. Don't feel like sewing any more.
Joe
That's a shame. I had a similar day. Had to replace the gears in a machine today, in the end, the only reason it didn't get pitched out the window is that the machine doesn't belong to me. What a chore. It's supposed to be a lot easier, but everything went wrong.
Originally Posted by
miriam
Someone removed them - then they put some sort of maybe a sucker stick in there... really cheesy... I just snapped a pic.
They just stabbed that sucker stick right through. I'm not very impressed.
Poor machine! I would never have thought of a sucker stick. It's weird they'd put the washer in there... maybe to make it harder to punch through?
Originally Posted by
miriam
That ain't all Bubba did. Bubba bent the needle shaft. My Singer 500 donor machine let me borrow a nice one. It took some doing for me to work up the courage to fix it but it wasn't really all that hard.
How does one bend a needle shaft? I would think it would have to hit something pretty solid like concrete? I'm guessing the needle plate didn't look great either then? I did a complete dis-assembly on the FW, and was pretty surprised at how easy that portion was to take apart too.
Originally Posted by
SunlitenSmiles
wonder if they put the sucker stick there and then did the same thing that broke the thread holder to begin with and the sucker stick pushed through instead of breaking.
I bet you're right. That instruction plate doesn't look like a lot of fun to get off either, so it would be hard to fix once you realized your "oops". It looks like both Miram's and mine have had at least one attempt at removal.
The spool pins are held on by an identical clampy thing too. Really unfriendly this particular feature, but so far, it's the only thing that makes me go "What were they thinking".
I didn't get a chance to clean up that machine today after all. The client machine fought me too long, and I'm beat after having to do some emergency IT things after that, so I'll tackle it tomorrow when I'm fresh and less likely to lose my temper.
