How was your last sewing experience? Was it something like this: you bought the fabric, the pattern, the matching thread. When the time came, you even remembered how to wind the bobbin.
And suddenly, thwap, buzz, wheeeeeee. The hook is bound up, the hand wheel refuses to turn, there's a spaghetti chest of loops on the underside of what had promised to be the cutest daffodil costume ever made for a spring play. On top of everything else, the gremlin inside the upper tension dial is laughing at the look on your face when you spy an unruly spiral of popped thread,that when you saw it last, was uniformly unwinding from its spool and was neatly threaded through a fairly expensive German needle!
Kinda like the Twilight Zone. You know. That episode where William Shatner is happily flying for the first time since he conquered his fears, and as the plane's underway, he sees the gremlin out on the wing of the airplane, pulling the aluminum skin off the engine cowling, and he's the only one to see this imminent horror?
Unfortunately, the home sewing world can be eerily similar...
Now you are beginning to question why you bought this fifty-year-old, used, mechanical machine on okay, when you could have spent ten times as much on a geputerized wonder from Switzerland, Germany, Sweden, or wait a minute, does that say Malaysia? And did you say ten times as much?
So even though your self-esteem has taken a hit, you've decided to give ole Isaac Singer, Sears Kenmore, or Homer New White another try, because the seller did seem sincere and the machine did work perfectly when it arrived at your door. And you KNOW you CAN do this!
You had the presence of mind to get an owner's manual for the machine. You mightas well read it.
TROUBLESHOOTING
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