Singer Long Bobbin Tricks:
On the long bobbin Singer machines that have a thread guide that moves left to right and back and forth to lay the wraps of thread onto the long bobbin neatly, there’s a couple of tricks that will help when loading the bobbin into the shuttle. I’m talking mainly about the Singer 27 and Singer 28 machines.
When preparing to wind a bobbin, engage the BW (Bobbin Winder) without a bobbin loaded and rotate the BW until the movable thread guide is completely to the right side of its travel. Trick number one: Load the bobbin, and while doing so, trap the tail of your thread under the right end of the long bobbin when inserting it in the BW. Then, place the thread into all of the guides back to the spool, and commence winding the bobbin. Important: Always stop winding the bobbin when the thread wraps and movable thread guide are to the further-most right side of the bobbin.
Trick number two comes into play at this point. When loading your freshly-wound bobbin into the shuttle, make sure that you insert it with the right-hand end of the bobbin going into the shuttle first. It’s the end that your last wrap and thread tail is at. In this position, when pulling your thread through the slot to place it under the tension spring, the location of the first wrap of thread down in the nose of the shuttle helps to ease the shuttle spring threading process.
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