Is there anything I can adjust to make the machine sew through this thicker zipper? I've had this machine for some time, but rarely used it.
You should be on straight stitch selection, use size 16 or 18 needle, apply longer stitch length(3-3.5mm), always lower down your needle using your hand wheel first, so as not to burden the motor when you started sewing your material. Hope this can be helpful.
SOURCE: need help making a bobbin...
Ahah! I was having a similar problem, but figured it out. What you do is you first put the spool of thread you want on the bobbin in its normal place, just as if you were sewing. Then you take the end of the thread and wrap it around the metal button-looking thing on the top of the metal string catcher on top of the machine. Wrap it around once in a figure eight sort of pattern (or kinda like a Jesus-fish symbol). Then you take the end and put it through one of the holes on the bobbin. Make sure there's enough so that it won't slide out, because it will wind at sewing speed. Now, you take the bobbin and put it on the metal post on the right-hand side of the machine, the one in front next to the white plastic round with a screw in the middle. It should fit on tightly.
Now, here's the part that took me forever: on most machines I've encountered, there's a switch somewhere that tells the machine to wind the bobbin. On the White Fashionaire 2380 that switch is the bobbin-holder itself (the metal post it is on right now!). Push the post, bobbin and all, towards the white plastic thing (sorry, but it's late and proper teminology eludes me). It should click over, and your thread should be going from the spool, around the metal button (in a figure eight fashion) and should be threaded through one of the holes in the bobbin. Now you hold the end of the thread and press the pedal, and after a short while the thread will be pulled out of your hand (or possibly not, if it's long enough). Keep going until you have enough thread on the bobbin, and cut it loose! You're done!
SOURCE: Replacement Sewing Machine Bobbin Case
Hi Jo,
Is there a way for you to email me a digital picture of your old bobbin case? I guarantee you we have one for your machine I just need to know what yours looks like!
- Jeremy
http://sewingpartsonline.com
SOURCE: I borrowed this White Heavy
Here you go: http://homeappliance.manualsonline.com/support/white/sewing-machine/sewing-machine-3226933
Happy Sewing!
SOURCE: manual for White Sewing Machine Model 1919
if you go to the singer website
under customer support
look for instruction manual
then click on it
it will take you to another page in the box type w1919
then click search
they have a free pdf download
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