Forlornvanity

Hey ya'll. I'm slowly losing my mind with my bell skiver so I figured I'd try my hand here. I tried searching around a bit but hadn't seen anything pertaining to my issue. I have some 6/7oz leather I'm looking to skive down and for some reason I can't get it to properly feed through. I keep messing with the adjustments but the roller doesn't seem to have enough tension on the leather to actually push it through. It just rolls underneath it. This is the first time I've tried using a leather this thick so maybe I need to do something different than usual? I've adjusted the presser foot and still no luck. (I currently have a 2" pressure foot on.) Then, I blew the fuse. I don't really see the correlation between the fuse and my roller issue. I don't actually know what would cause the fuse to blow to begin with. Any help/direction would be amazing. I'm using a Consew DCS-S4.

Ah, thank you guys! That makes much more sense and it's actually making me more sane knowing it's not the tension. It really seemed like the thread is crossing in the center of the material so I've been going nuts wondering why the backside looks the way it does. Lately I've been thinking maybe if I sized up to a 138 thread that would be less of an issue for me. I didn't realize there were actually different needle types for this specific machine, as stupid as that sounds. I just have the 135x17. Do you have a better suggestion?

Hi! I've tried searching other threads for answers first (MANY times), but I seem to continue to have issues with my thread tension and I'm dying for some insight. As you'll see in the photos (just a trial run so let's not even talk about how terrible it is haha) one side of the thread seems to be fine, and the back side is always appearing to pull through. It doesn't matter the thickness of material I'm using, and the issue still occurs when I change thread size. I've attempted to bring the tension all the way up/down and adjust a little at a time, but this issue never goes away. I'm threading right, the bobbin is facing the right way, the needle size is correct.. I'm just at a loss. The machine is less than a year old. I'm new to the industrial machine so it's certainly been a learning curve and it could totally be something I'm just overlooking. Any suggestions?