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------------------------ Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing = in the middle.

HI Kate,

Ares your Singer buttonholers the ones with metal cams or plastic? My original one has metal cams, and always makes perfect buttonholes. The one I bought for my MIL had plastic cams, and used the zig-zag settings on the machine to make buttonholes, and I never thought that one produced great buttonholes.

-- Beverly

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:) I'm not interested in an electronic machine because I do most of my machine repair and tuning-up myself right now. I don't live near a reputable dealer or service-center, so I found a repair book and banged my head against the wall til I figured out what I was doing. :)

That's unfortunate. What do they do badly?

Thanks for the advice. I'm not actually averse to free extras I don't think I want; I just don't want to pay for them! :) I listed the minimum requirements for my next machine; the features I have actually wished I had *right now* for projects I subsequently finished some other way instead. If more things come along with them, that's fine too.

Off to sanctioned fabric purchasing- for commissions! :)

Thanks again, Courtney

Yes the ZZ plate is in however the single shank on the new twins creates the problem of the needle hitting the plate. You cannot centre the new twins into a needle hole, it has to go either right or left and it hits the plate then. I don't mind the double needle set up, most of the time it is the correct width I need. If I want wider I use another machine and a new type twin up to 6 mm in width.

------------------------ Adult: A person who has stopped growing at both ends and is now growing in the middle.

Set it on A-K and move the red lever to center the needles.

Metals cams, and to work with straight stitch machines.

I must admit that I did repair the tension mechanism on my Singer 18-88 all by myself...

Make buttonholes!

Joking apart, they make buttonholes by grabbing the fabric and shifting it from side to side. The stitches do not always catch. Even when I get a 'prefect' buttonhole out of them, they are nothing like as good as those made by Lily. One thing I REALLY like about the Lily is that I get 10 different styles of buttonhole, and I can make them almost any size I like. I love the 'heirloom' buttonhole that mimics a had stitched one.

I got masses of 'free' stitches with Lily that I never thought I'd use. Turns out that when I'm doing the classes, the kids love all those rows of flowers and leaves, the boys love the geometric patterns and the puffer train, and BOTH lots like writing their names and slogans on things! And one of the first commissions I had after getting it was a Christening dress with rows of self coloured flowers on it...

I like commissions: you get to use expensive fabric, you get paid for doing it, and once it's complete, it gets stored somewhere else! ;P

How odd, I have no idea why we get such different results. :-/

-- Beverly

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On Mon, 05 Apr 2004 02:22:15 GMT, "BEI Design"

I use the metal cams also and set up the 301 for buttonholes. It makes the best ones I have seen with about 14 different variations according to the cams I use. I have never liked the ones on the HV machines, not even enough for my taste. Tried my Pfaff ones but the same results. It seems that the more stitches on a the machine the worse the buttonholes. Yes. tested a VSM Lily I had in for repair and buttonholes were one of the things the lady was complainging about. One side was fine but the left side was uneven and thin. Got it as close as possible but not perfect. Still like my buttonhole attachment best.

After 45 years my Necchi Supernova is still my "dream machine". It has always taken on anything I throw at it without complaint. Dot in Tennessee

How odd. I've never had that problem with mine! The only time I get a problem with buttonholes is on several layers of thick stuff where the buttonhole may collide with extra layers in a seam allowance. The add-on Singer gadgets don't like that at all and usually break the thread, meaning I have to unpick and start again.

The only time I've had a stitch problem of any sort with the Lily was recently, when I and my machine man (AND his daughter!) all thought there was a step motor problem and it turned out to be a piece of thread caught in the tension mechanism. Flossing is something I do regularly, and it would NOT have got this out. Wilf had to disassemble the tension mechanism to remove it. The machine got an extra service and tune up, feed dogs were re-timed, and the stitch quality is back to perfect. Well, except when I try to sew through the head of a safety pin and bend the tip of the needle...

I like those machines too. I wish I could have kept the one I used in a school once, but it was the one they were keeping when they bought new ones for the room! The rest of the machines were newer, clapped out

70's Singers: fit only for the scrap heap unfortunately. I think they were re-tooling with Berninas.

Off-topic, but what is "NAYY", please?

- Wm

It means "No affiliations, yadda yadda," or else that the person is getting absolutely nothing for making a recommendation. It's a guarantee that the recommendation is not intended to be spam.

That's amusing...the idea that that little bit of popular culture (the Seinfeld-ian expression "yadda yadda") has actually found it's way into an acronym.

Thanks for the explanation!

- Wm

e was a step motor problem and it turned out to be a piece of thread Your very lucky , I have replaced several step motors in this model. Something else that happens regularly is the timing goes out of whack. But that is just an HV general problem and quite easily fixable. Recently we are getting a lot of bobbin assembly replacements as the non oilers are wearing out with age. The SN's are terrific machines. Necchi had a really great series of machines for a number of years that are still coveted by collectors. I have 2 which I would never part with.