Originally Posted by
leonf
another option. Look at the treadle wheel itself and see if it may be leaning to one side. I know some treadles have opportunities for adjust the axle. I don't remember about Singers.
Also AS a rookie treadler, you may want to run it without thread till you learn the rhythm pattern. getting off timing will break thread and you can spend a lot of time cursing needle eyes.
We did look at trying to adjust the wheel axially this past weekend. My husband (former mechanical engineer) was kind of surprised there was no way to adjust the wheel. The wheel itself is as vertical as I can tell by eyeballing it.
As to your second point, yes, I have cursed the needle eye quite a bit with some very colorful language. I was trying to treadle while waiting for the belt to get a feel for it. It is a much different feel when the belt is installed and the machine is threaded, but I am getting better
. I didn't break as much thread when I was practicing today.