Members revmadison Posted May 16, 2017 Members Report Posted May 16, 2017 On 7/10/2013 at 11:20 PM, The Spoonman said: perfect, thanks! we rigged up an elastic band as a makeshift take up lever spring, and have been adjusting the tensions, and got it sewing again. however, we're using the front (darning) tension discs because no matter how loose we make the top tension discs (even if the nut is loose and almost falling off), the thread is REALLY hard to pull through them once we drop the presser foot and the tension gets applied up there. the darning tension discs are working for now, but it seems curious to me that the top ones would be so tight no matter what... possibly another adjustment is affecting it? Like on my 29K51 I bet someone replaced a broken top tension spring with a spring that is too strong. Mine works ok but only if the nut is almost falling off. Can you pull thread if you take the nut off? If so it is probably the wrong spring. Quote
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