My wife has a Toyota 8800 sewing machine. She has tried to use the Zig Zag stitch function but although it does the Zig Zag stitch it doesn't pull the material through. There are 19 different stitch patterns available and the other 18 all pull the material through. Anyone any ideas?
Zig Zag stitch
Sep 09, 2007
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Are you sure that this is the only zig-zag stitch? It sounds like this one might be a bar-tack stitch, or maybe even a darning setting.
This is the only zig-zag stitch on its own. There are all sorts of other stitches and one in particular has Zig Zag on the left of the picture and straight stitch on the right. This one pulls the material through where as the basic zig-zag doesn't. The picture on the switch selector is like this but rotated tclockwise through 90 degrees. (-/\/\/\/\-)
In message , Wainscotting writes
Just a thought, have you got your stitch length set too small. Sometimes if it is set to 0 or 1 it will be trying to satin stitch and that sometimes can cause problems. Shirley
Sounds like there might be a broken cam, then, if this is a mechanical machine.
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Had it serviced a year or so ago and have hardly used it since. Everyone we talk to says even though it is an old machine it is a very good one and worth repairing. Not sure whether this is just a ruse to keep on handing out more money ;-)
It's a Toyota 8800. I will have a look at the group you mentioned - thanks
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