Singer Featherweight Thread
 

Just a quick question...
My featherweight apparently doesn't like a cone of thread. Is that normal? I like using cones because they are cheaper but I can use spools, of course.
Thanks,
Joan

Do you have your cone on a cone holder sitting just behind your machine? I have no trouble with mine.

Yes, I've had it in just about every position behind the machine...behind the motor, to the left of the motor, to the right of the motor...I can't figure out why it doesn't like it. It slips out of the thread guide and then spins and gets totally wound up.

I have a friend that made a little gadget that he uses with his FW machines. He takes an old spool of thread, preferably an old wood spool and then buys a round or keyhole type screw from Home Depot etc. I think they're called an eye hook? http://www.bottlecapco.com/Eye-Hooks_p_657.html He screws the eyehook into the side of the spool and puts it in the machine like a regular spool of thread. The eye hook faces to the side of the spool so he threads the cone thread through it and it forces the thread to follow the thread path that a regular spool would. The cone thread is situated in back of the machine on a regular cone thread holder. The only expense is an old spool and a 20 cent or so, eye hook if you already own the cone thread holder.

You can also make something like this http://www.google.com/search?q=feath...ml%3B480%3B640


But, I think I'd prefer the old spool and eyehook.

Since Candace mentioned the home made guide, I also make one.

I use a 1/2" dowel rod drilled to slide down on the original spool pin. Then I put a spring for a clothes pin on top and use that.

Here's a pic of my widget set up on my Alden:
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Thread comes off the cone on the stand, up over the hook, through the widget, then to the thread guides and down to the needle. I've used this set up with many of my machines and it's worked great.

Joe

Well Joe, that is the neatest thing I've ever seen. I'm gonna make myself one. Thanks so much for the tutorial. Boy, this place and you guys are the greatest.

Hey, thanks so much! That's exactly what I need. Now DH will have something to do when the snow melts.
Thanks again.
Joan

Nova Montgomery has a thread guide for using cones that sticks into the oil hole on top. Check it out on her website.

I have the felt thing where the thread normally should run from and I just positioned my thread under it as it comes off
the stand behind my machine and that has worked perfectly.

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A small to medium binder clip clipped on the thread spool works for me. Use the cone stand and run the thread through the binder "handles."