Pfaff Serger 4870 threading HELP!!!! Going to launch this thing into the ocean soon!

---OK, I'll bite. I'll start by assuming that he Pfaff serger threads like most sergers do. Try re-threading completely. Re-read your manual.first, to see if you're missing some small step. Check both spool end and stand to be sure thread isn't hanging up on something. Change the offending thread--swap the spool out for a fresh one. Sometimes I've gotten a hinky new spool. Usually you start threading with the loopers, saving the needle threads for last. I thread with the feed dogs up, just like a reg. sewing machine, so that the tension discs stay open to receive the threads. Once you have the machine threaded, pull all of the threads to the left, under the feed dogs. Now, don't stomp on the foot pedal---try turning the handwheel to 'proof' your threading. Watch the action of the loopers to see if they are in sync with the needles---you may have pulled the timing off, and the threads may not be meshing with the needle action. It helps if you think of it as a kniitting action--in slow-mo, that's what it looks like. If everything looks fine, except that one pesky thread on the yellow guide, Take a break. Quit. Come back tomorrow, chances are, your serger will have rested up, and will be over it's malaise. Cea (running to stand under Da Momma's window, just in case she chucks the serger out...)

Cea, I think you mean: "pull the threads to the left, under the

*presser foot*". I know on my sergers, I wouldn't want to try pulling the threads under the "feed dogs". ;-}

Everything else you wrote looks perfect. I'll just shove you a little, standing under that window.

Beverly

You're welcome, I've been known to let my fingers type with my brain disengaged, too...

Well, your elbows sure seem to be sharper! Ouch! ;-þ

Beverly

Will you two quit it before you get arrested for being peeping Thomasinas?

You want machines? Stand under my window when my husband has an anxiety attack. Oh - you wanted a serger? Sorry, just sent my old serger to one of the girls - and her husband immediately got a worried look. I'd already given her a sewing machine - I guess he thought this was just the beginning..... well....come to think of it...... Oh, older son has said he'd like to have a treadle for his "new" 1918 house.