Originally Posted by
leightred
I hav a Voyagers 17, and bout to throw it out of the house, threads breaks continuely, count to 15, thread breaks, change needle change thread, check for spur, sand them out, re thread machine, it frays then breaks, and needle won't catch bottom thread when moving forward (up), being service now, does any one out thr hav lots of problems w/ the Voyager 17, it a stretch machine from Singer which they no longer make. Not to happy
I have a Voyager 17. I have been able to use Signature, King Tut, and Glide thread successfully. Glide is the one I like the best. I had some shredding and breakage until I set my bobbin tension as described in Jamie Wallen's video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1mRhcquZTM . I wasn't able to get my bobbin tension as loose as his (my bobbin screw fell out!), but I simply set it as loose as I could get it. That helped enormously.
I am wondering if you may have a bad bobbin case. Sometimes they get dropped and bent.
It took some experimenting with the bobbin winder to get it to wind bobbins correctly for me. Some of my first bobbins were not wound very well.
Are you a member of the Yahoo group HinterbergQuilters? If not, you might want to join (
http://groups.yahoo.com ). There are quite a few experienced Voyager/Hinty quilters on that group who may be able to help once you get your machine back.