Clean Your Machine/Taking My Own Advice/ Metallic Ornaments

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.....you have any pictures of that???? I wanna see!! Just the garland, I've seen up close and personal the other glunk you described :-P

Val

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It might. ISTR that the shank (where is goes into the machine) of a Singer needle is a smidge longer than it is on other needles.

jenn

-- Jenn Ridley snipped-for-privacy@chartermi.net

WOW!........I have a Huskylock, the one time my machine did anything similar was after I had cleaned that glunk out you previously spoke of. After quite a bit of frustrating stop and start sewing I ended up turning it over, removing the case from the side and bottom back ( I have no idea how yours goes together/comes apart) but anything with screws holding it together was unscrewed and dismantled ( I just know this is making some people's hair stand up on the back of their neck! LOL) and feeling much like I was probably going to screw it up so bad it would be a month shop with a sign reading "Fix what she FIXED". However, once I carefully got a few more pieces of the casing off I found that there was an up and down moving part gizmo attached to a gear sort of thingy and I had some teeeeeeeeeny little strands of that rubber band stuff that comes out of elastic when you knick it wrapped around the little sort of bolt holding the thingy onto the gizmo. And I could not even remember the last time I sewed with elastic. And I can only think the way it got there was if it got turned over transporting, or at a class, or when I used to used canned air. That stuff can blow things not only out of your machine, but deeper into it...which is why I don't use it anymore. So I think what was happening is that the elastic would get wound in tight and the machine would balk down, then I'd give it a rest, the elastic relaxed and then the machine would sew a bit more. I picked the strands out with tweezers and then gave it a good going over with my mini vacuum and lubed and oil. Olaf, the Huskylock Viking is running smooth as a baby Viking's bottom :-)

So maybe you need to go a little deeper into the bowels of your machine and use a little Mag Light (flash light), I forgot to mention if it wasn't for that I wouldn't have spotted the wound and tangled elastic. If it moves look at what connects it to anything that also moves, use the flashlight, clean a little more if needed........good luck.

Val

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This sounds good to me. A problem with the needle would be stitches not forming. You say the feed dogs aren't moving after a few stitches. Something is hanging them up, and that would be down inside, under the dogs. I'm not sure why it would work, then stop. Work again, then stop as you turn the machine off and on again, but first look for something like Val says.

Please report back on your findings. *crossed fingers that something doesn't come loose that you aren't prepared to put back*

Re: Clean Machine/ My Own Advice/ Metallic Ornaments/ HELP!! snipped-for-privacy@YahBetcha.org (Valkyrie) WOW!........I have a Huskylock, the one time my machine did anything similar was after I had cleaned that glunk out you previously spoke of. After quite a bit of frustrating stop and start sewing I ended up turning it over, removing the case from the side and bottom back ( I have no idea how yours goes together/comes apart) but anything with screws holding it together was unscrewed and dismantled ( I just know this is making some people's hair stand up on the back of their neck! LOL) and feeling much like I was probably going to screw it up so bad it would be a month shop with a sign reading "Fix what she FIXED". However, once I carefully got a few more pieces of the casing off I found that there was an up and down moving part gizmo attached to a gear sort of thingy and I had some teeeeeeeeeny little strands of that rubber band stuff that comes out of elastic when you knick it wrapped around the little sort of bolt holding the thingy onto the gizmo. And I could not even remember the last time I sewed with elastic. And I can only think the way it got there was if it got turned over transporting, or at a class, or when I used to used canned air. That stuff can blow things not only out of your machine, but deeper into it...which is why I don't use it anymore. So I think what was happening is that the elastic would get wound in tight and the machine would balk down, then I'd give it a rest, the elastic relaxed and then the machine would sew a bit more. I picked the strands out with tweezers and then gave it a good going over with my mini vacuum and lubed and oil. Olaf, the Huskylock Viking is running smooth as a baby Viking's bottom :-) So maybe you need to go a little deeper into the bowels of your machine and use a little Mag Light (flash light), I forgot to mention if it wasn't for that I wouldn't have spotted the wound and tangled elastic. If it moves look at what connects it to anything that also moves, use the flashlight, clean a little more if needed........good luck.

Re: Clean Machine/ My Own Advice/ Metallic Ornaments/ HELP!!

Cea, this is what Karen Howland calls PMS--Persnickety Machine Syndrome! They only get it when you absolutely MUST get something done, and at no other time.

Sewing machines are male, too, according to Karen! LOL

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

I did not know that. My sewing machine and my serger use the same kind of needles (not Singers), so I've never looked into it.

jenn

-- Jenn Ridley snipped-for-privacy@chartermi.net

OK, first hang a garland of garlic around your neck and then take your serger and set it infront of a mirror.......if you can not see it's reflection you need an exorcism.....if you can infact see it's reflection yer prolly gonna have to take it to Serger Doctor *sobbing* This is NOT your fault, bad things happen to good people......*arm around your shoulder* I'll go make you some fudge, the really creamy kind. *snuffle*

Val

I'm going to resist saying why that is true.

Karen Maslowski in Cincinnati

Serge the Serger (my Huskylock 910) certainly is! But Lily is a Lady! ;) Jenny is a Good Ole Fashioned Factory girl: hard working, looks pretty, swears if you upset her! The treadle is somebody's eccentric aunt: You never know just when she will throw a fit, but she is unfailingly polite and reliable at all other times!

ROFL........thanks for the grin of the day Kate! Reminds me of some of the names I used to have for some of my motorcyles and my little 'plastic pig' (Reliant Supervan - a three wheeled British vehicle [1] with a fibreglass body for the non-Brits here).

-- Larry

Is that the little thing that looks like a gourd? I saw one for sale the other day down the road from me. I would have checked it out, but you can't get two people in one if it is the same vehicle...

You got a death wish, Larry? Or do you just never turn corners?

;) Trish

No, you can get 4 in a Reliant. The van version just has 2 seats, and no back windows. Did you ever get Only Fools & Horses over their? British sitcom, sometimes very funny. Del Boy's vehicle was a Reliant van. They have 3 wheels, so you only need a motorcycle licence for them rather than a full car licence, and they are weird... They can fall over sideways if you corner too fast!