Addition - needle off-centre? My needle is only just (by a whisker, nay, a hair) inside the throat plate hole on the left side. The teensiest bit further left and it will hit the plate. I looked at another thread on here for someone else who had the same problem and followed the advice to check out the video where someone twiddled with a screw for the needle bar. That wasn't his problem but it said it fixed his needle alignment problem too. But I'm struggling to see how that could be left/right adjustment. When I fiddle with mine I get an up/down adjustment and so that seems to be more about the timing and how far the needle is below the bobbin hook when everything lines up correctly at the second timing mark.
That thread's a little old now too - has anyone else learned anything since about what can cause a needle to be so far off to the left, and how to fix it? Mine does still sew and while I'd like to perfect it I don't want to risk disassembling this part of the machine and ruining it for the sake of not finding out.
(I can't find anything in the adjuster's manual about left/right adjustments and there's no diagram in there - or anywhere else I can find - about where the needle should go down that hole for a 201. I'm assuming that if it was anywhere other than the intuitive "centre" - where you measure your seam allowances from - then either the user's or adjuster's manual would have said so.) Thanks again in advance for any tips you've got on this one! ... Megan