Resetting Timing Babylock BL3-408 Serger

Hello, all. I bought a Babylock serger on craigslist and it worked perfectly. Unfortunately, I was rough on it and it jammed. I couldn't even get the fabric out to look at it. My upper looper broke so I bought a new one. It still kept getting caught on the lower looper so I moved it, too. Obviously, I need to reset the timing. I have been at it for hours. It's been almost three months since I put the new upper looper on. First, I couldn't get the subsidiary looper into the hole of the upper looper. Now I have the upper and subsidiary loopers in synch and I thought the lower looper was in synch as well because it will form a chain... until I put fabric in. Then, it only knots a couple of times every few inches then goes back to forming chains without fabric again. The chain looks... odd. Like the loops are too big from one thread. I'm at wits end. I don't know if I should keep fiddling with the timing or if I should try the tention settings. There are no numbers on tention settings so this is very difficult since I'm completely self taught on this thing. Thanks so much to anyone who can help!

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Seams_Sew
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Probably shouldn't have done that. You may have only needed to adjust the upper looper to increase its distance from the lower looper.

Your best bet is to take it to a service technician. If you have a sewing machine timing gauge, you can use it to set proper timing between the lower looper and left needle by adjusting the position of the cam that drives the lower looper. That will give you a good starting point for adjusting the upper looper. There are probably burrs on the lower looper, needle plate and needle guard(s) that will need to be found and smoothed before it will stitch properly.

gwh

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Wayne Hines

Probably shouldn't have done that. You may have only needed to adjust the upper looper to increase its distance from the lower looper.

Your best bet is to take it to a service technician. If you have a sewing machine timing gauge, you can use it to set proper timing between the lower looper and left needle by adjusting the position of the cam that drives the lower looper. That will give you a good starting point for adjusting the upper looper. There are probably burrs on the lower looper, needle plate and needle guard(s) that will need to be found and smoothed before it will stitch properly.

gwh

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Wayne Hines

This web site explains looper timing.

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-Irene

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IMS

Nice site, bookmarked. Thanks.

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BEI Design

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