Originally Posted by
manicmike
I think it *is* meant to be that hard. The needles don't have a flat side so you need to be able to see the groove, the needle must be first inserted into the throat plate and the needle bar doesn't have a stop for the needle so you don't know when it's at the right height. I've only set one but it wasn't my 12 MOP, it was a German clone. Gerry had the sense to add some features like said needle stop.
The manual is as follows...
[ATTACH=CONFIG]513446[/ATTACH]
I have a needle like that, and tried to print out the instructions. The image came through so big, that it wouldn't print all of it. Now that I am doing the "reply", it came out really small, so maybe I can print this one.