HELP!!!!! machine issues
01-14-2011, 03:43 AM
#22
Junior Member
Join Date: Aug 2010
Posts: 292
When all else fails, I'd see if there is a dealer someplace nere you and take it to them. maybe call the company and ask their'
advice. I feel bad for you because my Janome needs to be
serviced and I hate to give it up so it can be done.
Flo in NNY
advice. I feel bad for you because my Janome needs to be
serviced and I hate to give it up so it can be done.
Flo in NNY
01-14-2011, 07:23 AM
#27
Junior Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: New Mexico
Posts: 245
I was just getting ready to tell you to take the bobbin area completely apart and clean it out but I see just above that you have done that. It took me awhile to realize after fighting my machine for hours that all I had to do is clean out that area. I always find a small piece of thread that was causing all these problems. So now every time I have to rewind a bobbin, I clean out that area and oil the specified areas and I don't have that problem anymore. I also don't use the cheap thread. You can really tell the difference between the type of threads.
01-14-2011, 07:29 AM
#28
Senior Member
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Grawn, Michigan
Posts: 643
Originally Posted by scowlkat
Since the top thread is not being caught and held by the bottom thread, it is definitely a bobbin issue! Take everything apart in the bobbin case one more time. Also be sure you are putting the bobbin in with the thread feeding off in the correct direction. (On my Ellisimo, I hold the bobbin up and have the thread coming off the left side where it looks like a "P".)
After you have threaded everything top and bottom again, leave the bobbin cover off and hold the top thread in your hand while turning the hand wheel. Watch to see if the top thread is being caught by the bobbin thread as it goes around. If it is not, then it sounds like a timing issue.
This is just my opinion of course. I take older machines apart and service a lot of machines for friends. However, I don't mess with the computerized machines other than minimal issues.
Good luck and hope you get this resolved so you can sew! (Perhaps a cheap older backup is in your future???)
After you have threaded everything top and bottom again, leave the bobbin cover off and hold the top thread in your hand while turning the hand wheel. Watch to see if the top thread is being caught by the bobbin thread as it goes around. If it is not, then it sounds like a timing issue.
This is just my opinion of course. I take older machines apart and service a lot of machines for friends. However, I don't mess with the computerized machines other than minimal issues.
Good luck and hope you get this resolved so you can sew! (Perhaps a cheap older backup is in your future???)
I agree. -- When you take the bobin assembly apart, watch for loose threads and lint. A tiny piece of thread or lint is all it takes to throw it off.
01-14-2011, 07:35 AM
#29
Member
Join Date: Oct 2010
Posts: 82
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIr6C...eature=related
Is your pressure foot up or down when you thread the machine? I just found this site. He shows the importance of having the pressure foot up when you thread your machine.
Is your pressure foot up or down when you thread the machine? I just found this site. He shows the importance of having the pressure foot up when you thread your machine.
01-14-2011, 07:40 AM
#30
Member
Join Date: Feb 2010
Posts: 46
I just learned something last week - had been given a Singer which I gave to my grandaughter for Christmas - she was having all kinds of tension problems with it, even though I had had it serviced before giving it to her. We went back to the shop where it had been serviced, and he asked if we always had the presser foot in the "up" position when re-threading. I looked blank - never thought of it. He said on all machines, it should be "up". Puts the tension discs in the correct position to receive the thread. That was the problem for her, and her mother said it probably explained some of the problems she had had in the past with various machines. Just food for thought on the re-threading advice!! J*
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
