Questions & Answers for: sweep hand Sewing Machines

...dirt firstly. Then brush out the interior that you can get to with a soft clean little brush sweeping the dirt/dust into your hand or onto a piece of flannel fabric to catch it all and get it ...

...sweep the threads). Lower the presser foot, gently hold both thread tails with your left hand and slowly turn the handwheel (either manually or by motor) to form a couple of stitches. Then let go of ...

...sweep out the feed dogs carefully. 2. Rethread making sure you have the handwheel turned toward you, all the way up. 3. Lift presser foot up BEFORE you put thread front to back in eye needle. 4. Set ...

hand wheel to see if you can loosen debris. Be VERY gentle so you don't interfere with timing. Usually you will bring up one thread caught in feed dogs and you can sweep it out. If that's case

...hand wheel toward you to see if you can move the take-up lever all the way up to the UP position. Look at bobbin case area and remove bobbin. Cut bobbin thread and remove bobbin case. Sweep gently ...

...hand manually turn the handwheel one rotation. The needle should pull the bobbin thread up through the fabric. While still holding the top thread tail, "sweep" under the presser foot with a stiletto, ...

...hand wheel and the needle thread will successfully sweep the bobbin thread up. But when I replace the needle plate and the needle plate cover, the needle thread will find the bobbin thread but is ...

...hand until it catches. The front cover that I believe you are asking about, should lay flat when you are threading it, and then you pull it to the right as you are closing it and then it will catch ...

...hand and manually turn the handwheel one revolution toward you. If everything is okay, the top thread will pull up a loop from the bobbin thread. Raise the presser foot and you can sweep a pencil, ...

...hand. The needle will go down and it should come up with the bobbin thread. I use a stiletto, pencil, or something else to sweep under the presser foot so the bobbin thread comes up the rest of the ...