My needle is hitting the wheel underneath the bobbin. It's as though the wheel is not turning in time with the needle lowering. Before I realized what was going on, I kept breaking needles..but now I have taken it apart and see that the needle hits the wheel instead of smoothing going into the holes in the wheel before coming back up to complete a stitch. Any advice here, before taking it to a shop?
Sounds like the toothed-belt (if there is one) jumped off timing. You can try realigning until the needle goes into the hole as the bobbin holder rotates in place. You can do this by manually slowly operating machine -- do not do with electric pedal.
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OK, this is a general timing procedure. Loosen the screws on the main shaft gear that goes to the hook drive gear and separate the gears. Next put the needle in the left position and bring the needle all the way down by turning the handwheel. As the needle comes up make the point of the hook enter the scarf of the needle (just above the needle eye)and hold it there while you put the gears back togeather and tighten the screws. This should put it close to being in time. To fine tune it you can loosen the needle bar screw (half way up the bar that holds the needle) and adjust theneedle so the hooks point is just above the needle eye. You may have to do this a few times in order to stop it from skipping stitches. Good luck. Rick
SOURCE: Needle hitting bobbin plate
Is the needle inserted correctly with the flat side at the rear and fully up into the holder ?
If yes, take off the needleplate, remove bobbin case and slowly rotate the handwheel towards you watching the relationship between needle, and the "hook" of the moving "race".
Set on wide zig zag........when the needle is fractionally past it's lowest point, and starting to rise, the hook should be level with the left side of the needle when on the right hand stitch of the zig...the eye of the needle will be below the hook, and ready for thread to be picked up for the stitch to form.
Any other result will mean your timing needs adjusting.
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Hi, actually I can help with your problem but maybe you can help me with mine. A friend gave me the same model...without the instructions. Would you be willing to give me a pdf scan or photocopy of the manual, please? Let me know at [email protected]. Thanks!
SOURCE: singer 301A needle breaks
do you have a book, refer to threading. This machine threads differently than most, threads like a 221 featherweight. Needle goes in backwards, and threads backwards. in wrong and you can have problems, also threading can cause your problem if you have missed tension or a thread guide. great little machine
SOURCE: needle hits inside of bobbin case.
IF YOU HAVE ANOTHER MACHINE TO COMPARE YOU TAKE THE BOTTOM OFF SLIP THE BELT OFF AND THEN LINE UP THE MACHINE THATS OFF WITH THE GOOD ONE AND PUT THE BELT BACK ON. THIS WILL SET THE TIMING RIGHT..
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