Each sewer has little tricks they've acquired over time. I'm always interested in learning new ones and I'd hope others are also. I'd like to start a thread where these can be shared. Recently we learned on another thread how each has a trick to use CW cone thread with a domestic spool spindle. It was very interesting.
I'll start with a couple I referenced in another thread;
<A tutorial demonstrator wound thread around the bobbin tensioner twice in a video. I've been doing that since for added resistance.
In the same video, he positioned his thumb on thread as he pulled it though the upper tension. It loaded the thread through the tensioner, check spring and little teat guide on the tensioner in one sweep. Solved my seating of the thread in the tensioners. Little tricks come in handy.>