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LizO,

Singer 111W service manual (including threading)      http://dixiesewingmachine.tzo.com/MANUALS/SINGERSERVICE2/111W152,153,154,155-inst.pdf

Singer 111W155  parts manual      http://dixiesewingmachine.tzo.com/MANUALS/SINGERPARTS6/111W155.pdf

Singer 111W155 parts manual (better copy)     http://dixiesewingmachine.tzo.com/MANUALS/SINGERPARTS6/111W155!.pdf

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Are you sure you have the needle in correctly?

Hard to tell from the photos, but it looks like it might be turned the wrong way - The thread groove should be to the left, and the "scarf" (the shallow notch above the eye) should face right, facing the hook - If it's in wrong, I'm impressed that it sews at all :~)

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I just realized something while reading this. 

Sewing machines are one of the few mechanical thingamajigs where women (especially OLDER women) have an advantage over men, because we were expected to take Home Ec. in school, while the guys took Shop. Many of us also had a sewing machine at home that we were allowed to use. And that means, of course, that we LEARNED how to use sewing machines. And a leather sewing machine, in most ways, still works pretty much like a domestic one...meaning I knew immediately what was wrong with the way the machine was being threaded!

Sorry, guys, you will have to forgive me...having a moment here!   :thumbsup:

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Hi,

i think there is a mistake in 1 , thread must be in the steel ring and pass behind a hook in 2

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What either sex learned to use , depends where you grew up Sheilajeanne :)..I learned* to knit and sew ( by hand at age 6 ) at a school in the UK 5 Yorkshire ) ..IME it was ( and still is in very many systems and countries ) harder for girls to be offered , classes / teaching in mechanics, welding, woodwork etc at school than for boys to be given the chance to learn to sew, ( machine or hand ) knit etc ..

*actually I knew already, but it was taught to all, boys and girls alike..My mother had a sewing machine, so did grandmothers and aunts..any boy who wanted to learn did, with supervision ( in case we broke what was used to make the family's clothes )..Art schools in the UK used to teach how to go from designing /drawing and item ( clothing, luggage, masks, whatever ), to making the patterns, sewing, them ( ( on industrial clutch driven machines ) , plus all the tricky stuff like designing pleating systems etc..They also taught cabinet making, sculpture ( plaster molding , concrete, wood working, welding , plastics, resins ) ..life drawing, painting, photography, printmaking ( silkscreen, lithography on stones and metal plate machines, letterpress, etching, engraving ) sketching, watercolour and oils, acrylics..everything..I do know from talking to friends in France that here one does not learn all the aspects of the fashion business..many designers don't actually know how to work the machines..and many machinists do not know how to repair or set up their machines..The couturiers that I know , call in a repair guy* / machine mechanic  ( nearest one to here is 250kms away ) for anything more than changing the bobbin or needle..They were never taught how, many were not inclined to learn..

 

*Always is a guy..never a girl..unfortunately..France has along way to go one certain things..

 

Paloma..the second photo that you show ( the one on the pale coloured machine ) is threaded incorrectly..the thread must go behind the small "hook", but..it must pass through the take up tension spring..

 

If we refer to your 1st image ( the darker machine ) the thread must pass under the spring you have marked #1..then you pull the thread ( holding it taut above the spring, so that it "clicks" in behind the little hook that you have marked with #2 ..this sets it behind the take up spring.. then continue threading up through the thread guide nearest to ( and slightly to the left of ) the take up spring , to the eye hole in the take up arm..and down again to the thread guide, onwards to the needle thread guide and down to the needle eye..

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"Don't you know that women are the only works of Art" .. ( Don Henley and "some French painter in a field" )

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In your second image ( the one that shows the take up spring control on the pale machine ) the take up spring is doing nothing and the stitches will not form correctly, because the thread path is incorrect..

 

I had to split this into 2 comments as the system is freezing ( click "save" nothing happens ) on me if I make more than one edit per post.. :((

"Don't you know that women are the only works of Art" .. ( Don Henley and "some French painter in a field" )

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thanks Mike but i have some problem/difyculty to understand well.

I have UNDERSTAND! you are thruth!!!

the good way is this!:rolleyes: i am a newbie too!

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Ok :) see attached close up..machine is Singer 211, thread is black ( sorry about that but it is loaded with Black 69 )..image is of the thread correctly positioned  as it exits the Take Up Spring assembly..You'll need to "zoom" the photo to see my notes written on it..Sorry about the writing, "trying out a different graphics tablet" on this machine, getting used to it..I normally use them for drawing , not for writing..to "zoom" right click on the photo, choose open in new tab..when it opens in new tab, you can zoom..or you can click on the little magnifying glass ( loupe) if it shows one..HTH :)

Close up - Correct Thread Path at Take Up Spring.jpg

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"Don't you know that women are the only works of Art" .. ( Don Henley and "some French painter in a field" )

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