2016 POTD Thread Archive

I got my wife a vintage sewing machine for mother's day. It's a Bernina Favorit 540, made in Switzerland in 1953, if anyone is curious. It's the model my great-grandmother used forever. The same one she taught my mother on. My wife was very excited as they absolutely do not make them like this anymore. It's built more like a Swiss watch than a modern sewing machine.
So I finally got a new belt on it and spent some time lubricating it and working all the bearings and bushings until there was no more resistance from old, gummy lube.

The shuttle (sometimes called a rotary hook) was out of alignment, crashing into the needle. So today I learned a ton about how sewing machines work and I corrected the position of the shuttle on its shaft, both axially and laterally, so it not only no longer crashed but the timing is now correct and it catches the thread. Yay!

Except that it is not yet passing the thread smoothly over the bobbin, instead allowing it to wrap around the bobbin cage thing and immediately jamming the machine in the first two cycles of the needle.

I'm going to figure this thing out. I might become a seamstress and/or sewing machine mechanic in the process, but I will figure it out. Even if I have to let someone explain it to me, it will eventually make sense to me. :)
 
There's some issue with Tapatalk. Two people have reported that if they quote my post the images appear as they form the response, but not when they post the response. No idea how to resolve it, but at least that's a way to see them.
 
intjonmiller said:
........... I'm going to figure this thing out. I might become a seamstress and/or sewing machine mechanic in the process, but I will figure it out. Even if I have to let someone explain it to me, it will eventually make sense to me. :)
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I love your "can do" attitude. I am trying to instill the same thing in my grandsons.

EDIT; I forgot to mention that I can't see the pics either.
 
HBilly1022 said:
I love your "can do" attitude. I am trying to instill the same thing in my grandsons.

EDIT; I forgot to mention that I can't see the pics either.
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I'm working on the same with my kids. I actually say that sort of thing out loud, even when it's something I can obviously do. "I can do that. I know how!" "I'm not sure how to do that yet, but I'm going to figure it out!" It's definitely working with one of them. Jury is still out on the others, but there's still time. :)
 
It's strange because I posted them from my iPod Touch (best camera I have in a mobile device) but I'm viewing on my Samsung/Android phone and they show up fine. Obviously it had to pull the images in, so they're working in the Tapatalk app, just not in the normal web view. I reported the problem to the Tapatalk people this morning. I'm curious to know where the problem lies.
 
This is weird. I can see the pics if I quote them and in the email notification I get about this thread but not in the thread itself. By the way that sewing machine looks new. Really nice score, especially for the wife.
 
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