sambra

Hi every one! I an a total newby, first post; although I have been lurking for months and just love to read the threads. I have an Electro Grand that has been just sitting in my house for atleast 10 years. It was my husbands grandmother. It runs so quiet but I just cant seem to adjust the tension. It doesn't seem to be fit right. I cant find a specific repair for it. Not a whole lot of info on it to be found. I want to take it completely apart and clean it but I am so chicken. It is not as old as some on this board, I am thinking it is from the 50's or early 60's. I have the manual but all it has is oiling instructions. It came to me with a box of greist attachments with a manual dated 1957. I will post a pic as soon as I figure out how. It has a wonderful cabinet that it pops right down into. Any advise on its care would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Melissa in Ky.

sambra

I think i may have the top tension straitened out. I took it all apart and cleaned it. The odd thing is I could not find an exact example of it to go by, It doesnt have the 2 tension plates that I see on most of the older machines. Now if I could just get the bobbin tension right. Back to the old drawing board.

SteveH

welcome on your journey out of the shadows!!!

I'm looking forward to the pictures. I am mostly up to speed on the really old machines (Pre-1885) but i'd love to help you troubleshoot your machine..

miriam

There is a really good repair manual tells how to trouble shoot and if needed take the tension apart and put it back together. I have given up just adjusting. I just take the tension apart and put it back together. If all the parts are there and the spring is right it adjusts in a VERY short time. Here is a copy of the manual. http://www.tfsr.org/pub/technical_in...echanism_2.pdf
You will have to figure out what instructions apply to your machine.

miriam

I posted the manual - you may need to watch a video. Muv may have one in the sticky notes. Could it be that someone took your tension apart and lost one of the disks?

sambra

Thank you so much for the help. I did go through the link and although the parts in the tensions are similar none match exactly. I am going to get the pic taken and I will take some specific ones of the tension as it looks on my machine, I will also try to get one of it dismantled. Like I said before it sews so quiet and smooth when it is well, I want to get it going again for piecing. I can drop the feed dogs on it and my newer darning foot fits it but I am afraid it being a good FMQ machine would be to good to be true.

sambra

[ATTACH=CONFIG]411330[/ATTACH]Well I have been trying for an hour and this is the only pic I can get to upload I will keep trying to get the ones of the tension.

JudyTheSewer

Hi Sambra, your attachment is a very large size which might be the problem. Can you use program Paint to reduce its size to less than its current +1meg size? Let us know if you would like instructions to do that.
Judy

sambra

that is exactly what I did and it froze up my laptop twice I will keep trying. Thanks.

sambra

[ATTACH=CONFIG]411428[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]411429[/ATTACH]Ok here is the tension configuration. The little part marked with an arrow I found in the accessories box, thought it might be part of the tensioner.