Feeling really stupid
09-03-2016, 02:29 AM
#23
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My mother tells a story from back before I was even born.
At the time my dad was a lowly rank in the RAF. In those days it was frowned upon for the wives of higher ranks to associate the wives of lower ranks (some kind of 'class' thing, I suppose). Anyway, for some reason mum passed on a good sewing machine to the wife of a high-ranking officer. After a week the lady complained that the machine was faulty, making insinuations about the lower-rank riff-raff cheating her.
So mum went over to the officer's house, and checked out the machine. The first thing she did was check the threading.
It turned out that the officer's wife had previously had a machine where the needle threaded from the side. The 'new' machine threaded the needle from the front. So the wife had removed the needle from its housing, rotated it 90 degrees and reinserted it with the hole on the side. So of course it wasn't going to work!
I suspect that my mum gloated about the idiocy of officers wives for quite some time, considering she still remembers the story 50+ years later.....
K
At the time my dad was a lowly rank in the RAF. In those days it was frowned upon for the wives of higher ranks to associate the wives of lower ranks (some kind of 'class' thing, I suppose). Anyway, for some reason mum passed on a good sewing machine to the wife of a high-ranking officer. After a week the lady complained that the machine was faulty, making insinuations about the lower-rank riff-raff cheating her.
So mum went over to the officer's house, and checked out the machine. The first thing she did was check the threading.
It turned out that the officer's wife had previously had a machine where the needle threaded from the side. The 'new' machine threaded the needle from the front. So the wife had removed the needle from its housing, rotated it 90 degrees and reinserted it with the hole on the side. So of course it wasn't going to work!
I suspect that my mum gloated about the idiocy of officers wives for quite some time, considering she still remembers the story 50+ years later.....
K
09-03-2016, 03:33 AM
#25
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One of those lessons in perserverance that all of us have dealt with. I think we all find these experienced once in a while. Please don't use the term 'stupid' because it is not a characteristic that applies to one who is working through a problem.
09-03-2016, 04:18 AM
#26
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Can you make a tiny little arrow out of adhesive tape and put it somewhere on your machine to remind you which way to thread the machine? May sound silly, but some of us have multiple machines, and may thread in different directions.
09-03-2016, 05:20 AM
#27
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Originally Posted by Cari-in-Oly
Nope, you're not stupid, been there done that. An easy way to remember is that a needle always threads towards the flat side of the shank. So if you know which way the flat side goes into the machine you always know which direction to thread it. Cari
09-03-2016, 06:02 AM
#28
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Most of the time, if the needle hole is facing front- it threads from the front, however ,If the needle hole faces to the right of the machine,as my feather weight does), then it is threaded from the right side .Hope this helps.
09-03-2016, 07:13 AM
#29
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Oh my, no reason to feel stupid. I have more than 1 machine so I took a Post It note & wrote which direction the bobbin gets threaded & which way the needle gets threaded. My Juki machine is opposite of the others that I have so it saves me from forgetting & I just check my note & voila, no more problems.
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