Members RoosterShooter Posted April 20, 2015 Author Members Report Posted April 20, 2015 (edited) It's now Fixed thanks to Ryan Neel of Neel's Saddlery ! He spent a little while on the phone with me yesterday, on a Sunday, to get the issue resolved. Basically, what was happening is that the presser foot and presser foot lifter were out of spec, and he helped me make the proper adjustments on the presser foot, needle bar, and presser foot knob in order to get it into the proper operating specs. The 'finger' that split the auxilary tensioner was not falling down when the presser foot was lowered when using the thicker material. There wasn't sufficient pressure to lower it to the proper place when material was under the presser foot, and the needle bar and presser foot were out of adjustment. I had never sewn leather at the thickness of 3/8" until last week and this was where I was running into issues. It would do ok on the thinner material, but the thicker material was the problem. I now have a machine that will accept 1/2" thick material, as intended. Whereas, before I could only fit 3/8" material underneath the presser foot. All is working, and I'm back up and running today. I just thought I'd post a resolution to my issue. Have a good day! Edited April 20, 2015 by RoosterShooter Quote
Members amuckart Posted April 21, 2015 Members Report Posted April 21, 2015 Glad to hear you got it working. If you can share the specifics of what you adjusted to get it working again it would be of use to future visitors to this forum. Quote -- Al. Medieval Stuff: http://wherearetheelves.net Non-Medieval, including my machines: http://alasdair.muckart.net
Members Singermania Posted May 5, 2015 Members Report Posted May 5, 2015 Glad you got it sorted, the photo shows the top tension to be way to light, as you say caused by the tension disks being held open. When something like this happens turn the machine over by hand and you will be able to see where things are going wrong and at what point. Its nice that people offer all sorts of complex machine adjustment advise, but always look for the simple answer first otherwise you can create problems where they didn't exist before. Bob and Ryan and myself get real busy, not just answering phone calls, but there are machines to order, to unpack, to service, accounts to pay, there are family commitments and so on, we all do our best and I think we give the best service anywhere but we cant always be available every second...... hope everyone understands that we do our very best at all times and are genuinely disappointed if we occasionally aren't on the spot when needed. Quote
Members Darren Brosowski Posted May 15, 2015 Members Report Posted May 15, 2015 Every now and then we also try to get some sleep. Quote
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