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Threading Singer Sewing Machine
I recently purchased a used Singer Model 457 sewing machine. I need
instructions or a picture showing how to thread the machine, particularily through the tensioner. |
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On Singers, of which I have three, some of them you have to
pull the thread through the tension discs, and then pull it back over the discs, so that the spring on the discs will "click". IMS wrote: Here you go with your threading digram.. You can also purchase the entire manual here. http://www.sewusa.com/threading/singerthr457.htm On 24 Jul 2003 19:26:30 -0700, (WAH) wrote: I recently purchased a used Singer Model 457 sewing machine. I need instructions or a picture showing how to thread the machine, particularily through the tensioner. |
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I have a similar machine, I think. Does anyone know how to make it reverse?
TIA, Lili "IMS" wrote in message news Here you go with your threading digram.. You can also purchase the entire manual here. http://www.sewusa.com/threading/singerthr457.htm On 24 Jul 2003 19:26:30 -0700, (WAH) wrote: I recently purchased a used Singer Model 457 sewing machine. I need instructions or a picture showing how to thread the machine, particularily through the tensioner. |
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You know that lever where you control stitch length? Push it up.
"Lili Love" wrote in message t... I have a similar machine, I think. Does anyone know how to make it reverse? TIA, Lili "IMS" wrote in message news Here you go with your threading digram.. You can also purchase the entire manual here. http://www.sewusa.com/threading/singerthr457.htm On 24 Jul 2003 19:26:30 -0700, (WAH) wrote: I recently purchased a used Singer Model 457 sewing machine. I need instructions or a picture showing how to thread the machine, particularily through the tensioner. |
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It doesn't have a stitch length selector dial. Look at the picture.
"Trish Brown" wrote in message ... Lili Love wrote: I have a similar machine, I think. Does anyone know how to make it reverse? TIA, Lili I don't have that particular machine (mine is a bit younger), but check to see whether the central 'button' on the stitch length selector dial is the reverse switch. It took me a while to find mine when I first got it and I laughed for five minutes when I finally did! ;-D -- Trish {|:-} Newcastle, NSW, Australia PS. The centre of the stitch length dial ought to be a button, which you press to invoke 'reverse'. It can be quite awkward. |
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On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:15:14 +1000, Trish Brown
wrote: I don't have that particular machine (mine is a bit younger), but check to see whether the central 'button' on the stitch length selector dial is the reverse switch. It took me a while to find mine when I first got it and I laughed for five minutes when I finally did! ;-D I once used a machine where "reverse" was quite obvious: the stitch length was controlled by a lever with "0" in the middle of its arc. IIRC, there was an adjustable stop on the lever so that you could flip it up and down without looking and always get the same stitch length. Joy Beeson -- http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ -- needlework http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ -- Writers' Exchange joy beeson at earthlink dot net |
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That's the way the machine in question works. Apparently, no one bothered to
look. "joy beeson" wrote in message ... On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 10:15:14 +1000, Trish Brown wrote: I once used a machine where "reverse" was quite obvious: the stitch length was controlled by a lever with "0" in the middle of its arc. IIRC, there was an adjustable stop on the lever so that you could flip it up and down without looking and always get the same stitch length. Joy Beeson -- http://home.earthlink.net/~joybeeson/ -- needlework http://home.earthlink.net/~beeson_n3f/ -- Writers' Exchange joy beeson at earthlink dot net |
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