Unthreading Your Sewing Machine TIP
07-31-2013, 02:50 AM
#31
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I've been sewing for over 50 years and running a commercial embroidery shop for 18 years and this is the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of. You can't damage a machine by pulling the thread in the direction of the spool. You also will not get any more lint in the tension knob than when the machine is sewing.
07-31-2013, 04:43 AM
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I too learned this when I was introduced to my new Janome. The owners' husbands of my favorite quilt shop took all the Janome classes when they became Janome dealers and one husband, Bob is the guru of Janome repairs and instructions. He told me you should always pull the thread thru the needle because that's the way the thread is suppose to feed thru the machine and the machine's set tension can be disturbed if you pull it against the mechanism. Makes sense to me and after looking Bob in the eyes while he stressed the importance of unthreading, I've never pulled it the other way.
07-31-2013, 04:47 AM
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07-31-2013, 04:56 AM
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Exactly. I learned that in HS some 40+ (Whew!) years ago. The tension can get totally messed up pulling it out backwards, not to mention the lint that is carried back into the mechanisms. And, never hand turn the flywheel away from you, always toward you. The timing can get out of whack if the backward turning is a habit. The belts are meant to run in a forward motion. My sister's sewing machine flywheel locked up because of this. (We had the same Home Ec teacher. One of us was paying attention in class. LOL)
WHOOPS!! I misspoke and did not mean to say the 'belts are meant to run in forward motion'-I mean you should only turn the flywheel foward to guide the thread. I wanted to say nothing about the belts!! Let the machine do the backwards sewing when it is supposed to. I don't know everything about the machines, I only know what I was taught my the Home Ec teacher. Duh!
07-31-2013, 04:59 AM
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Hello! When I got my first embroidery machine, a Viking Designer 1 back in 2000, they stated this about the thread. I've been doing it ever since but I know there has been times I for got. Its such a waste of good thread when you see just how much you just cut off. Oh well, we must do what we must do to keep our machines running correctly.
07-31-2013, 05:17 AM
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pulling thread through
I was told to cut the thread at spool and pull it from the needle, it is to keep the machine cler of so much liont up in there. I do it someime and sometimes not, I forget. LOL.....It does make sense though but I don't think it is a big deal if you don't. Just saying. 
07-31-2013, 05:30 AM
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I learned this when I bought my Ruby - the factory rep said it's because of the twist of the thread. If it's pulled from the needle to the spool, it leaves lint in the machine because it's going against the direction of the twist. I never knew it either but I have since changed my method!
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