This blue shaggy dog is cursed!!!
Sigh - I took my "newish with a few fancy stitches" machine apart. Nothing I shouldn't, but I cleaned it using this
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as a guide.All yarn, I figured that fuzz might be building up...I guess I should always go by "if it ain't broke don't fix it."Now my needle is hitting something and breaking. I took the threads out, and ran it first by hand, then as slow as I can on this machine to see if I could see what it is jamming on, but it seems ok. I put the threads back, run about 3" and jam - snap - needle breaks. I'm out of needles right now, so I dug out my old "all-metal works with no fancy stitches" machine to sew with for this afternoon.
I don't really want to take this thing to a shop - it is Sears Kenmore machine that was a gift, and I've never had much luck with it. I don't even work it hard!
If I had to guess, I would say it has something to do with the bobbin housing. But it doesn't seem like there's a wrong way to reassemble it.
Argh - any thoughts?
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