Originally Posted by
Ariannaquilts
I am so sorry to be a pain but I am at my wits end here. I did the tutorial for the featherweight thread jam, it took me almost 2 hours to get the part with the gib screw back in place. I did find 2 tiny pieces of thread in there removed them and then the problems with trying to put everything back together it just wasn't working. At any rate I finally got it on there lined up as shown (oh and btw the whole time I was having all the problems the hand wheel was turning smoothly) put the plate back on and back to square one, the hand wheel will not turn. So I repeated the process 3 times just in case I missed something and nothing. I haven't put the needle plate screws back on this time because I wanted to see if before I put that on and got the finger in place if it was working properly and it was but again as soon as I put that on, you got it nothing. I don't know what else to try I have done everything you've suggested and I'm still stuck. Don't give up on me yet, please help. I'm ready to fling this machine out the window, almost!!!
Maria, this is actually good news. Consider that without that finger locked in place, the machine can turn. With it loose and able to turn with the handwheel (watch it, I bet it does without the needleplate in place) that tells you where the jam is. It's some sort of friction causing that finger to hang up. The most common place is where we've told you to look. Now I want you to put the machine on its back, take that "plate" off that has the thumbscrew on it, and expose the underbits. Look between the exposed part of the hook and the rest of the mechanism. Is there any thread wound up in there? It's technically not the spot we wanted you to look, but when I taught a bunch of ladies how to maintain these machines in April, we found 2 machines with thread -behind- the hook assembly altogether.