Uggh! My early warning signal didn't work!!
#22
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
Location: N. Nevada
Posts: 953
I have found that my warning for low bobbin thread does not work when my bobbin area needs a good cleaning. Try taking the bobbin area apart and giving it a good cleaning before taking it in for servicing. Hope that does it for you.
#23
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Join Date: Nov 2010
Location: Seattle
Posts: 695
I'd say clean the bobbin area and give it a try. I have used canned air since a teacher at my dealer showed how to use it by first removing the throat plate and holding the can behind the machine. That way the air blows out the front. I do also have a small vacuum cleaner that I used between projects. Usually, though, just cleaning with the tiny brush between bobbin fill-ups works find. Of course, I don't have a warning signal, so I can really address your problem.
Wishing you good luck solving the problem!
Wishing you good luck solving the problem!
#24
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Join Date: Feb 2013
Posts: 1,340
I actually noticed this problem right AFTER I cleaned out the machine. I've been changing bobbin colors for different projects recently so a bobbin hasn't had the opportunity to get empty. Maybe I pushed a piece of lint someplace that it shouldn't be. I'll go back and clean it again. Thanks everyone!!!
#26
My machine seems to do that every now and then, Sometimes cleaning the bobbin case thoroughly helps as others have said. I'm not sure I would take my machine in just for this unless it was due for a tuneup. I only have one machine and I am lost without it.
#30
This happened to me even though I cleaned the area out and tried different bobbins. I just learned to live with it. A few months later when I had the machine in for its annual tune-up I mentioned it to the technician. He checked it out and found that the little light bulb that sends a beam of light through the plastic bobbin was burned out. He replaced the part, it worked and I was a happy camper.
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