Help! I broke my new Janome...
03-20-2010, 06:14 PM
#33
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Location: Sun City, CA
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I have a new Pfaff Quilt Expression 4.0 and have found that every time I change the bobbin, if I vacuum it out, I do not have the problems you are experiencing. It may take a little time but it takes less time that the frustration time spent when things aren't going right.
03-22-2010, 09:20 AM
#34
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Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Glens Falls, New York
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Originally Posted by Stummel
Well, I am having stupid day or something...
I cleaned it and pressed the foot pedal and voila, the feed dogs came up. You'd think I was done now being an idiot, but no.
I read somewhere that it is good to change the needle to a denim needle in order to go through all the layers and that it makes the stitch straighter, so I am trying to change the needle, but when I try to push it down to get the bobbin thread it hits a metal surface just under the metal plate, and I can't work out why?
Took the needle out again several times, checked that it was straight (was new from a package anyway) and tried again. Any ideas?
I have changed needles on sewing machines hundreds of times and have never had a problem. I miss my really simply, if not rubbish low end machine.
I cleaned it and pressed the foot pedal and voila, the feed dogs came up. You'd think I was done now being an idiot, but no.
I read somewhere that it is good to change the needle to a denim needle in order to go through all the layers and that it makes the stitch straighter, so I am trying to change the needle, but when I try to push it down to get the bobbin thread it hits a metal surface just under the metal plate, and I can't work out why?
Took the needle out again several times, checked that it was straight (was new from a package anyway) and tried again. Any ideas?
I have changed needles on sewing machines hundreds of times and have never had a problem. I miss my really simply, if not rubbish low end machine.
03-22-2010, 12:19 PM
#35
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Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Outside St. Louis
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Every time I think I have made all the possible mistakes that could be made, walla, I surprise myself and come up with a new one. Sometimes I just recycle them and make one I haven't made for a while.
03-22-2010, 12:29 PM
#37
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Hampshire, UK
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Haha, yes I worked it all out and it works like a charm.
That is, of course if you ignore the fact that I used the table without pulling out [b[all[/b] the feet first, so that it was so unstable I couldn't work out why for a good two hours...but even that is fixed now. :lol:
That is, of course if you ignore the fact that I used the table without pulling out [b[all[/b] the feet first, so that it was so unstable I couldn't work out why for a good two hours...but even that is fixed now. :lol:
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