HELP !!!!!
12-28-2010, 02:09 AM
#51
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Sometimes, in a case like this when I have tried all the above good suggestions, I run a piece of WAXED dental floss through the thread path and run it back and forth through the tension. I has helped me out many times.
12-28-2010, 02:39 AM
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The last time that happened to me I finally found a big chunk of lent under the throat plate between the feed dogs. As soon as I cleaned it out and returned the setting I had changed to their original place it went back to sewing fine again.
12-29-2010, 03:46 AM
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I have had this problem and done all of the suggested things. I then called my sewing machine store and got the actual repair man!!!! His suggestion worked. loosen the top tension all of the way. Clean the tension plates. You almost certainly have lint there. You might also have lint under the tension plate of the bobbin. Plan on using a scrap to check the tension after you are done.
12-29-2010, 09:14 AM
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If the bottom thread is sewing badly adjust the top tension
If the top thread is sewing badly adjust the bobbin tension
I had a simular problem a while back and I had to have it repaired. My machine is a Pfaff Computerized so sometimes something happens to the tension and it has to be repair by a tech.
If the top thread is sewing badly adjust the bobbin tension
I had a simular problem a while back and I had to have it repaired. My machine is a Pfaff Computerized so sometimes something happens to the tension and it has to be repair by a tech.
12-29-2010, 09:42 AM
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Originally Posted by Darlene's
I have wasted over 2 hrs trying to figure this out !!
My machine is sewing a great stitch on the bottom but the top is ALMOST straight !! like its not going down in the material.
I have changed bobbin thread.....top thread.....new needle...adjusted tension ... and still nothing has fixed this !!
But the first 4 stitches are right then it goes almost straight.
Any advice?? I now have a headache lol :?: :?:
I am trying to piece a quilt so, 2 layers of cotton fabric.
I have rethreaded 3 times.
I have cleaned bobbin shaft free of lint.
Its got to be in the tension but I cant figure it out, I have adjusted alittle here and there but nothing is helping.
# 11 needle since I'm only doing 2 layers. (new)
My machine is sewing a great stitch on the bottom but the top is ALMOST straight !! like its not going down in the material.
I have changed bobbin thread.....top thread.....new needle...adjusted tension ... and still nothing has fixed this !!
But the first 4 stitches are right then it goes almost straight.
Any advice?? I now have a headache lol :?: :?:
I am trying to piece a quilt so, 2 layers of cotton fabric.
I have rethreaded 3 times.
I have cleaned bobbin shaft free of lint.
Its got to be in the tension but I cant figure it out, I have adjusted alittle here and there but nothing is helping.
# 11 needle since I'm only doing 2 layers. (new)
12-30-2010, 01:31 AM
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Yes, I had a similar problem with lint in the feed dogs, hidden way in the back. Lint loves to hide and mess things up. (My machine guy says he's never seen anyone who uses a machine as heavily as I do, even with my frequent cleaning and oiling.)
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