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Good Afternoon everybody,

 

 my dealer that I purchased my consew 1541 machine from California, has not been  much. I am now out and South Dakota  and I am having problems balancing the knot using T 90 thread.

It sews 69 just fine.  the problem lies in I have the tension adjusted as far as it will go and yet I still get a visible knot on the bottom. the only suggestion the dealer had was to put a stronger spring underneath the tension adjuster.

 if I cannot get T 90 to work, I don't think there's any way on Earth to get 130 or 210 working.

 two layers 1000 denier Cordura

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 green and tan he is 92 top 69 bottom green on green is 92 top and bottom

Greg

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try a needle 1 or 2 sizes up!

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Forgot to add. Using #21 needle now

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Get a stronger top tension beehive spring.

Posted IMHO, by Wiz

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Cowboy CB4500, Singer 107w3, Singer 139w109, Singer 168G101, Singer 29k71, Singer 31-15, Singer 111w103, Singer 211G156, Adler 30-7 on power stand, Techsew 2700, Fortuna power skiver and a Pfaff 4 thread 2 needle serger.

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Post a picture of how you have your machine threaded at the top. Are you sure your thread is even between the tension disks?  Sometimes it takes a little effort to snap the thread between the disk, don't just loop it around them.

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 I will try this differ behind spring, does that make or some serious attention but if that's what it takes I suppose that's what I will do yes it is between the spring tension discs, I have had it apart cleaned it put back together. Here is a picture of the threading

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 I'm getting on a train, so it will be 5 hours before I can see the replies but thanks guys

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Perhaps something in your tension release mechanism is stuck and keeps the tension discs apart. You should be able to feel a distinct difference in tension when you pull the thread manually and change the tension setting. If the thread tension doesn't change as you dial the tension knob, you have to figure out why.

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A nice, thorough tutorial on that machine, with threading details and all. 

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