Learning How To Sew With A Machine

[Wizcrafts]

I could use pictures of the drop down belt guide installed. Preferably one in the 'up" position, and one in the "down" position.

CB4500

Thanks,

Jake

I think I have photos of the drop down guide in up and down positions. They are on my home computer, but I'm at the shop on my laptop now.

[bruce johnson]

Good tips for sure. Just to add one moreI have found with my Ferdco 2000. Whenever anything messes up and you just know that you have everything right, change the needle. It can look great, feel great, and changing it puts everything right with the world. Even taking it out and putting it back in sometimes can do the trick. The needle may have rotated slightly or dropped slightly and that changes everything. My Adler was real finicky about that..

On my 1245 I developed an annoying light click one night with every stitch in heavier stuff but still sewed without a skip. I opened everything up, cleaned it, oiled everyplace you can oil and still did it. I couldn't hear it handwheeling or on lighter stuff. I was telling a buddy about it and he listened over the phone - "Hey dumba**, turn the needle. The needle is twisted and the point is ticking the needle instead of hitting the scarf." A quick look and he was right. He'd been there, done that, wears the shirt.

[KAYAK45]

A point on adjusting your table height. Unplug the d@#$ thing before adjustment. If you raise the table, its the same effect as pushing on the pedal. If your fingers (thumb) are in the wrong place a guy COULD get a needle through his nail. Duh, how dumb would that guy feel?

Kevin

PS: Don't forget to adjust you chain length.

Edited August 28, 2012 by KAYAK45

[Northmount]

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I could use pictures of the drop down belt guide installed. Preferably one in the 'up" position, and one in the "down" position. CB4500

There are several photos in this thread. Edge guides

CTG

[Wizcrafts]

There are several photos in this thread. Edge guides

CTG

Thanks for finding and linking to that thread. It saves me reposting the same photos. I'll look see if I took a shot of the mounting bracket position on the back of the head.

[CowboyBob]

I knew I had a pic from a Cowboy 3500 we installed one on.

Bob

Edited August 29, 2012 by sewmun

[SooperJake]

That helps! Thanks, Guys.

Jake

[SooperJake]

Everything has been going along swell with the Cowboy. But, today, I've run into something new.

Switching to heavier leather, from two layers of 4-5oz up to two layers of 8-9 oz , the needle stops right at the start of sewing. It does not pierce the second layer.

I changed the needle and also checked the tightness of the the drive belts.

Drop back to the thinner leather and it sews fine. I don't see anything in the manual except belt tension regarding a stoppage. The motor and drive belt and flywheel aren't stopping.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Jake

UPDATE: In fact, the needle doesn't sink into the first even up to the eye.

Edited September 1, 2012 by SooperJake

[SooperJake]

#25 needle and 277 thread, BTW.

[SooperJake]

I see a small nick in the feed dog on the outboard side, up at the rim of the slot, about dead center.

I don't know if that was there before or not.

Edited September 1, 2012 by SooperJake