Exactly! I am making covers for all my machines (30+) and each will have a pocket for an index card(s) with way to thread, way to place bobbin, what the machine is/isn't good at, threads it likes or doesn't, it's little tricks, etc. Since I also have students from time to time, it will say whether I reserve that machine for my own use or whether a beginner/intermediate/advanced student may use it.

Joe, don't feel bad. We've all been there.

BTW, thanks to you, Joe, and everyone else for help with the Singer 500 a couple months ago. It is purring now.

Hi Joe,
I have been there many times. My brain is not what it used to be. I wish I had a dime for everytime I forgot to engage brain. I would be rich. LOL
Skip

Hi Joe,
I have that problem too. The Singer 201 and 66-1 thread opposite,bobbin goes in different and the needle goes in different too.

They really get upset with me when I've been using the White Rotary and try to turn the hand wheel backwards.
Sharon in Texas

When you pull the bobbin thread from the bobbin case, the thread should pull the bobbin "backwards" My featherweight bobbin pulls the opposite way from the 301.

When you thread the machine, the thread goes into the needle from the side where you see the last thread guide. I learned that in high school. I suppose that was the time there were machines threading from left to right, and some going right to left. That was also the time zig-zag machines were coming into greater use.

Brain overload, I call it. I finally put an erasable arrow on the model plate of my 29 to remind me which direction to crank with my spinner knob. One less brain cell freed for something important.