Juki 1541-S Safety Clutch

[piera]

Hi all,

New to this forum.. I have a Juki 1541S...

Have had this machine for about a month now.. I know how to disengage the safety clutch.

Now when I try to disable the safety clutch even if i rotate my hand wheel away from me nothing is turning and my safety clutch button doesn't go all the way down.

I don't know what else to do.

Edited February 19, 2016 by piera

[gottaknow]

First off, make sure the cause of the disengagement has been cleared. If not, what I'm going to tell you could make things worse if your safety clutch button has a problem, my work around will do the trick. Tip the machine back, find a spot on the lower shaft where you can clamp a healthy sized pair of vise grips. Use a piece of leather to protect the shaft. Clamp the vise grips in place and turn your hand wheel backwards. This should reset the clutch even if there's a problem with your reset button or the safety clutch.

Keep in mind that you should still figure out why you can't reset it with the button. The clutch may need adjusting, or there could be an issue with the button. Welcome to the forums!

Regards, Eric

[piera]

Thank you Eric!

I don't see anything on my machine for it to cause such issues.

Here are the pics

Forgive my ignorance but which part would be the lower shaft (I'm new to this)

Edited February 19, 2016 by piera

[gottaknow]

The problem I see is that little positioning finger should have its tab holding the bobbin basket at the 12 o'clock position. Loosen the one screw, rotate the basket back so the notch is at the top and put the tab into the slot of the basket. The machine will not sew at all if this isn't corrected. I'd draw an arrow on you photo, but I'm not where I can do it.

Regards, Eric

[Gregg From Keystone Sewing]

You can put the hook position finger (hook supporting plate) back in place, but if the finger does not look like this in the pic, it will likely come back out again.

I'm in Philly, about an hour from Telford PA where OP is from, and this would be covered by our warranty for sure.

[piera]

Hi Gregg.. do you do house calls haha

I looked into your store to buy my machine but you didn't have financing i was looking for with my Sewing and More Card :\

Im so clueless about how to fix this.. I just wish I got the machine without the safety mechanism.

[piera]

It works it works it works!

I pushed that support plate to be in hook cause it was off and it works!!!

Thank you SOOOOO MUCH!

I'll have to thread it now and test it and get back to you if it's good to go

But least my bobbin is turning now!

[gottaknow]

Thanks for posting that pic Gregg, I'm on the road.

Regards, Eric

[piera]

Thank you both for your help!

I threaded it and it's working perfectly

[coryleif]

Hi Gregg,

My 1541S does this sometimes, too. I've found that if pressure is applied to the bobbin, the basket and hook will lock up, causing the assembly to pop out of position like in Piera's case above. While sewing, this happens while stitching thick items w/o adjusting the thread guides to allow for more thread to go around the bobbin (causing the thread to push on the basket and jamming).

I got Juki to give me a new hook and it's a little bit better, but I'm always vigilant about properly adjusting the thread guides now.

Bad hook batch or just bad case finger adjustment?

Thanks!

cory