MtlBiker Report post Posted December 4, 2020 With a decent industrial sewing machine, how accurate is the stitch length adjustment usually? I'm asking because one of my machines seems spot on... setting 4 gives me a 4mm stitch... 10 gives 10mm, etc. But the other is fairly accurate at a setting of 4, but then it's completely off on the other number settings. Maybe I'm being too much of a perfectionist, but this really bothers me. And it means that if I want a certain stitch length (maybe to match something else) I have to fiddle with the setting back and forth until I get what I want. My other machine is so close in the settings that I don't worry about it. Should I be thinking of the stitch length adjustment as a relative number or absolute? Am I expecting too much? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chrisash Report post Posted December 4, 2020 It would help if you stated the one playing up, otherwise its a guessing game between 4 different machines you show on your signature Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MtlBiker Report post Posted December 4, 2020 29 minutes ago, chrisash said: It would help if you stated the one playing up, otherwise its a guessing game between 4 different machines you show on your signature Well, I didn't really want to cast doubt on the quality of a particular machine so I was asking in a more general way... Should I change my thinking to the numbers on a stitch length adjustment being relative instead of absolute? Should I think a setting of 8 is just bigger (but not necessarily double) that of a 4? Or should I be able to rely on an 8 giving a stitch length of 8mm and 6 6mm, etc.? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
