Stitch Length HELP needed Consew 287R

[CustomDoug]

On 10/2/2020 at 8:52 PM, Uwe said:

.. I’ve made a trip to the hardware store in the middle of a repair job on more than one occasion to get a better screw driver.....& Try to position the machine so that you can really lean on the screw driver as you turn it.

 

..OK, did both of these over the weekend.. and after a good fight, was finally successful !! So I then made the adjustments to the feed dog and needle bar from Uwe's video posted earlier (thanks again buddy). My needle length may be about 5mm now. Again, I'm using #138 thread - Uwe, can you get 6mm out of 138 thread with your machine from the video? Maybe it's just much for this machine??? 

NEW PROBLEM - now my machine is not pulling the material equally .. it seems to be pulling the top faster. Is there a common cause for this and adjustment ?  

[Northmount]

@CustomDoug  Looks like things are progressing for you.

Not to rain on your parade, but please post your photos here instead of using a third party hosting service.  If the host changes anything or disappears, then the photos hosted by them may disappear too.  Also if you close your account, change your permissions, move or delete your photos stored on the host, they will disappear from here too!  That will make this thread almost useless for others to reference in the future.  You will find a number of threads here where this has happened.

You may need to resize your photos to make them fit the size constraints here.

I will be downloading your photos from your host, and uploading them here.

Tom

 

[CustomDoug]

1 hour ago, Northmount said:

@CustomDoug  Looks like things are progressing for you.

Not to rain on your parade, but please post your photos here instead of using a third party hosting service.  If the host changes anything or disappears, then the photos hosted by them may disappear too.  Also if you close your account, change your permissions, move or delete your photos stored on the host, they will disappear from here too!  That will make this thread almost useless for others to reference in the future.  You will find a number of threads here where this has happened.

You may need to resize your photos to make them fit the size constraints here.

I will be downloading your photos from your host, and uploading them here.

Tom

 

Duly noted, thanks. 

[shoepatcher]

Sounds like the feeding ratio is off.  Can we see a video in slow motion to see how machine is feeding?  Turn the balance wheel by hand if you have to.

glenn

[CustomDoug]

On 10/5/2020 at 9:36 AM, Northmount said:

@CustomDoug  Looks like things are progressing for you.

.. please post your photos here instead of using a third party hosting service. ..

Tom

 

Not sure if posting a video to this website is as easy as posting photos is apparently, but I shall give it a try later today.  

Top thread tension: I mentioned earlier that my top thread was difficult to pull (too much tension thru the discs even when loosened).. I found the reason - I'd added a supplemental spring to the tension disc for heavier thread a few years ago (and forgot because I haven't used this machine in so long). I removed that extra spring and now the thread is much easier to pull thru at the end of a line of stitching - however, removing it did NOT improve my stitch length as I hoped it would. Nor did adjusting/centering the feed-dog.. & honestly the stitch length is no better than when I started this thread. Stitch too small at max adjustment w/138 thread. Frustrated. 

[Northmount]

11 minutes ago, CustomDoug said:

Not sure if posting a video to this website is as easy as posting photos is apparently

Most videos are too large to be able to meet the file size restriction here, so you will likely have to use a 3rd party host like YouTube.  That is unfortunate that many of them will be lost as permissions, moves, deletions happen.

Thanks for being aware.  I downloaded Uwe's video for my own future reference.  144 MB

Tom

[Wizcrafts]

7 hours ago, CustomDoug said:

Not sure if posting a video to this website is as easy as posting photos is apparently, but I shall give it a try later today.

You can use the freeware Faststone Photo Resizer to reduce the file size for use on forums with filesize restrictions.

[Grosent]

Hey, I realize this thread hasn't been active in a while, but I think I'm dealing with the same issue and the same machine as @CustomDoug...My stitches are shorter in reverse than when going forward. It's not massively off, but enough to make a messy backstitch. The machine is a Consew 227R-2. I followed @Uwe's video on adjusting the needle and feed dog (which was excellent!) but just like Doug it didn't fix my issue. 

Here's a photo of the stitches - forward on top and backwards on the bottom:

 

I also used Uwe's awesome stitch length gauge. It looks like forward is just a hair under 4mm and reverse is a hair under 3.5mm.

 

@CustomDoug did you ever get it sorted out?

Does anyone else have other recommendations?

It may be useful to know that a few days ago I had a jam that threw off the hook timing. It took me hours to figure out but I got it back in sync, many thanks to these forums and @Uwe's videos!

Edited June 9, 2021 by Grosent

[Grosent]

I uploaded a video showing it in forward and reverse: 

 

Edited June 9, 2021 by Grosent

[RockyAussie]

Firstly I must thank @Uwe for his fantastic help to us all and his excellent video work. I can't say my answer here is all that good but here goes.....I ran into a similar problem on a different machine and how I fixed it was by putting a spacer under the plate that the stitch length adjustment rod goes through. By putting a spacer at the top you would stop the adjustment rod going up so high thus making the back stitch length shorter and conversely by putting a spacer at the bottom you would limit the forward stitch length whilst not affecting the reverse stitch length. You could possibly wind the knob back a couple of notches every time you went into reverse but the spacer idea would cut out the need to do this once you get the spacing right. Bad side to this solution is that you may lose a little off of the maximum stitch length going forward perhaps.