What did I do???
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What did I do???
My FW was working very good..I was going to start a new project and thought that I had not cleaned and oiled it for some time. So I took off the metal plate and cleaned off the fuzz and oiled the parts that needed oil replaced the plate and rethreaded the machine. I started to sew on a scrap and the thread started breaking...changed the needle, still broke, changed the thread, still shredded. So could I have done to it??
#2
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Perhaps it is not what you did, but what you did not do. When you replaced the plate, were you careful to make sure the finger on the bobbin case was nestled in the small cove on the bottom side of the needle plate? It's common to overlook that. Also make sure your top thread has not hung up on something along the thread path.
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Thread to thick for the needle? Check tension? my 401 did that. Didn't realize I had 2 needles side by side either, grabbed wrong needle and I missed a thread spot (path) for the machine. Redid everything and fine.
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